“The World’s 25 Most Inventive Companies”

Posted by Joe Cannon

This BusinessWeek article “IBM May Not Be the Patent King After All” (January 13, 2010) and related slide show “The World’s 25 Most Inventive Companies” reports…

… a study conducted for Bloomberg BusinessWeek by Ocean Tomo, a Chicago intellectual property consulting firm, concludes that IBM’s collection of U.S. patents over the past five years ranks only eighth in value. No. 1 is Microsoft, which ranked third, with 2,906 patents issued last year.

While this list did not contain any surprises, the order was different than I expected.  Of course the methodology used to make such lists is key.

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