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> "Over the past 10 years Apple has produced 10,975 patents with a team of 5,232 inventors, and Google has produced 12,386 with a team of 8,888," writes Wes Ber
by wtbob 10y ago
> "Over the past 10 years Apple has produced 10,975 patents with a team of 5,232 inventors, and Google has produced 12,386 with a team of 8,888," writes Wes Bernegger, data explorer at Periscopic. Those numbers are, frankly, pretty similar in terms of proportion.
Ummm, Apple's 2.0977 patents per inventor and Google's 1.3936 patents per inventor are pretty _dissimilar_, I'd think, unless many companies have yet more or far fewer.
- JumpCrisscross 10y ago> unless many companies have yet more or far fewer Does anyone have a source showing the distribution of patents per employee across e.g. the S&P 500, Russell 2000 and NYSE Composite members?
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoClose enough, no? Or: if we've got data let's go with the data. If all we've got is opinions let's go with mine.
- zepto 10y agoIf you think 1.3 is close enough to 2, I have some investment options for you to consider.