IBM, Samsung Lead 31% Record Jump in New U.S. Patents in 2010
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International Business Machines Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. and Microsoft Corp. led the winners of U.S. patents in 2010 during a 31 percent record jump in grants of a main safeguard of intellectual property.
IBM, the world’s biggest computer-services provider, became the first company to get more than 5,000 patents in a single year, according to data from researcher IFI Claims Patent Services. Samsung trailed IBM’s 5,896 patents with 4,551, while Microsoft received 3,094, IFI said in a statement today.