PC REPORT
Thursday, January 15, 1998
They Keep Going And Going ...
IBM kept its patent attorneys busy last year, winning 1724 patent awards
from the US Patent and Trademark Office -- more than any other company.
Trailing IBM by over 300 patents were Canon, NEC, and Motorola. IBM has
topped the list of patent winners for five years in a row, according to
IFI/Plenum Data Corporation, in Wilmington, DE., which tracks patent awards.
Marshall Phelps, IBM's vice president of intellectual property licensing,
says IBM's leadership position didn't happen by accident: "We made a
conscious effort six years ago to make sure that we were getting adequate
patent protection. We were seeing people using inventions that we had
invented, but hadn't bothered to file for."
Some of IBM's most remarkable patents: a method for reading multiple layers
of an optical disk, which greatly increases storage capacity; and a
network-savvy antivirus technology that's modeled on the human immune system.
Rich Levin, KYW Newsradio.
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