I just stumbled across this page on the Canon U.S.A. website, touting their awesome achievement of 2,204 patents granted to them in 2009. Sadly, they only got fifth place in the patent-war, with winner IBM being granted 4,897 patents in 2009.
How in the HELL do you submit that many patents in a single year? Between the top 5 companies on this list, 13,615 patents were awarded in a single year. And this doesn't even cover the huge percentage of patents that were rejected. It's likely that these 13,615 patents are less than 50% of the number of patent applications filed by these companies.
How could these companies possibly hope to police all their patents, if they are granted at this rate? TAE suggests they make no effort at all to prevent people using their technology, but rather upon finding someone making a profit off a technology they have patented...they then seize that profit as infringement.
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Why Your Patent Won't Be Reviewed in a Timely Manner
Posted on 13:10 by hony
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