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Cool! My first search ("bosch") turned up almost a quarter of a million in the main company. Waay more than e.g. Ericsson, Milwaukee, Ryobi, Microsoft and Goog

by unwind 5y ago

Cool! My first search ("bosch") turned up almost a quarter of a million in the main company. Waay more than e.g. Ericsson, Milwaukee, Ryobi, Microsoft and Google which I searched next. Is there a "leaderboard" page? Edit: found the top lists at the bottom, but I don't want to pick a category, and the list format shows list position but not patent count unless you click each entry, which to me was not very accessible.

bluena 5y ago
Indeed, leaderboard per jurisdiction would be super interesting. IBM with 287000 patents would likely be in the top ones.
- ChrisKnott 5y ago
  I did an internship at IBM (~15 years ago) and they said that not only does IBM have the most patents, it tries to have the most patents awarded every year. You could just send half arsed ideas to a team of lawyers and they would write it up into a proper patent. Getting patents in your name was a big part of moving up the internal engineering ladder.
  - iancmceachern 5y ago
    But what do they do with them all? Seemingly not much...
    - caseyscottmckay 5y ago
      It's a defensive strategy, so others cannot enforce vague patents against them.
  - kitd 5y ago
    Master Inventor is a title that still carries a lot of esteem in IBM, albeit not the financial perks any more.
- bjuly 5y ago
  We have a leaderboard per country. IBM is indeed No.1 for the US: https://goodip.io/iq/top/offices/us https://goodip.io/iq/top/offices/us The all-time leaderboards for each industry and each technology are here: https://goodip.io/iq/top/industries https://goodip.io/iq/top/industries https://goodip.io/iq/top/technologies https://goodip.io/iq/top/technologies
  - missedthecue 5y ago
    Impressive to see Union Carbide on the list, given that they haven't existed for 30 years.
l7l 5y ago
Hi unwind, thanks for the feedback. We do actually have leadership pages per industry, technology and patent office. E.g. https://goodip.io/iq/top/technologies https://goodip.io/iq/top/technologies or https://goodip.io/iq/top/industries https://goodip.io/iq/top/industries. Cleantech innovation categories are going to follow soon.

by unwind 5y ago

bluena 5y ago

Indeed, leaderboard per jurisdiction would be super interesting. IBM with 287000 patents would likely be in the top ones.

ChrisKnott 5y ago
I did an internship at IBM (~15 years ago) and they said that not only does IBM have the most patents, it tries to have the most patents awarded every year. You could just send half arsed ideas to a team of lawyers and they would write it up into a proper patent. Getting patents in your name was a big part of moving up the internal engineering ladder.
- iancmceachern 5y ago
  But what do they do with them all? Seemingly not much...
  - caseyscottmckay 5y ago
    It's a defensive strategy, so others cannot enforce vague patents against them.
- kitd 5y ago
  Master Inventor is a title that still carries a lot of esteem in IBM, albeit not the financial perks any more.
bjuly 5y ago
We have a leaderboard per country. IBM is indeed No.1 for the US: https://goodip.io/iq/top/offices/us https://goodip.io/iq/top/offices/us The all-time leaderboards for each industry and each technology are here: https://goodip.io/iq/top/industries https://goodip.io/iq/top/industries https://goodip.io/iq/top/technologies https://goodip.io/iq/top/technologies
- missedthecue 5y ago
  Impressive to see Union Carbide on the list, given that they haven't existed for 30 years.

l7l 5y ago

Hi unwind, thanks for the feedback. We do actually have leadership pages per industry, technology and patent office. E.g. https://goodip.io/iq/top/technologies https://goodip.io/iq/top/technologies or https://goodip.io/iq/top/industries https://goodip.io/iq/top/industries. Cleantech innovation categories are going to follow soon.