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How are you defining 'stalled'? They're still the single biggest recipient of patents in the world as of last year.
by mullingitover 4y ago
How are you defining 'stalled'? They're still the single biggest recipient of patents in the world as of last year.
- bin_bash 4y agoIt's funny you see filing patents as evidence of innovation when I see it as precisely the opposite.
- mullingitover 4y agoI'm not sure how else you can really define innovation in a concrete fashion. Patents aren't exciting, but they're the end product of employing thousands of researchers and and spending billions equipping them.
- rfrey 4y agoResearchers, or lawyers?
- alisonkisk 4y ago
- dakial1 4y agoThe patent thing is just another of the shenanigans of IBM, the company pays you a premium if you get a patent approved and people just patent away whatever shitty thing they invent to get that incentive. It is just a numbers game that they use to have some nice KPI to say at their earnings call, but investors are not taking that anymore. Just look at IBM market cap evolution and you'll see how little value those patents bring to the company.