Perpetual Innovation

Category: Patents

  • Apple Offers ETSI Royalty-Free Licenses For Nano-SIM Patents – WSJ.com

    Apple Offers ETSI Royalty-Free Licenses For Nano-SIM Patents – WSJ.com:

    So, it would appear, as part of the patent wars in the wireless and MP3 market, Apple is going to try to move to a standard that lowers the litigation prospects.

    ‘via Blog this’

  • Intellectual Property @ IBM

    Intellectual Property @ IBM:

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    This IBM Blog article talks about US Innovation: alive and well.
    IBM blasts it outta the park again in 2011 with the most patents issued by the USPTO. These are organized by the owner of the patents, the “assignee”. See the top 50 list at IFIClaims.
    IBM had 6,180 patents issued in the US, far more than the next inventor company.
    The electronics companies from Japan and Korea were strong in the top 15.
    Here are the top US companies. Note that Microsoft is in 6th place with 2,311 patents issued. Quite a change for a company that once relied mostly on copyright for it IP protection. GE at #11 with 1,448 patents. HP dropped to 14 as the company struggles.
    The big automakers were generally in the middle of the pack with GM #18 with 1,095 patents. Apple at 39 with 676 patents (but then, not all patents are created equal). DuPont was #50 with 523 patents.
    Rank
    Grants
    Company Name
    Country
    1
    6180
    International Business Machines Corp
    United States
    6
    2311
    Microsoft Corp
    United States
    11
    1448
    General Electric Co
    United States
    14
    1308
    Hewlett-Packard Development Co L P
    United States
    16
    1244
    Intel Corp
    United States
    17
    1164
    Broadcom Corp
    United States
    18
    1095
    GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    United States
    22
    980
    Cisco Technology Inc
    United States
    24
    947
    Micron Technology Inc
    United States
    26
    923
    Qualcomm Inc
    United States
    28
    880
    Xerox Corp
    United States
    32
    794
    Texas Instruments Inc
    United States
    33
    780
    Honeywell International Inc
    United States
    35
    721
    AT&T Intellectual Property I L P
    United States
    37
    695
    Boeing Co The
    United States
    39
    676
    Apple Inc
    United States
    50
    523
    Du Pont de Nemours, E I & Co
    United States

  • Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research | Video on TED.com

    Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research | Video on TED.com:

    ‘via Blog this’

    This is an interesting approach to scientific research and invention… Related to cancer genes.
    They are applying Open-source concepts with crowd sourcing to get the research out quickly in a collaborative environment.
    Not that the original research was gov and/or foundation funded.

  • USF is ranked #9 in Patents/Innovation.

    USF is ranked way up there with the BIG research universities. The only one from Florida in the top 14.
    http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=3509&z=158
    Pretty cool.