Microsoft’s 24764 patents were involved in blocking patent applications of 9200+ assignees since 2000

To know the monetization potential of Microsoft patents, we monitored their patent publications at USPTO for the past 20 years. Which gave us the numbers shown in the below table:

The below chart shows the top 10 competitors which get maximum rejections because of Microsoft patents.

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