IBM has grown across different industries through strategic acquisitions and subsidiaries. These moves have helped the company improve its products, innovate in areas like cloud computing and AI, and better meet the needs of its customers. By acquiring tech companies and building subsidiaries, IBM has strengthened its position as a leader
IBM has a total of 122110 patents globally, out of which 35080 have been granted. Of these 122110 patents, more than 59% patents are active. United States of America is where IBM has filed the maximum number of patents, followed by China and Japan. Parallelly, USA seems to be the
IBM has filed more than fourteen thousand patent applications at an impressive grant rate of 85.84% at the USPTO. At present, IBM has 11175 pending US patent applications in the last 10 years. We analyzed the pending applications by using GreyB’s FIT (File Impediment Tracker) Tool. The FIT tool helps
IBM has 11175 pending US patent applications out of which 3250 are in the prosecution cycle for more than 3 years, and 1054 patent applications have been in the prosecution cycle for more than 5 years. The exhibit below has statistics of pending applications of IBM that are in the
Whereas both Samsung and IBM are neck and neck in terms of their patent filings, IBM is clearly leading when the grant rate is the factor. This is evident from the fact that Samsung has filed more applications in total but IBM has more granted patents in their kitty. Also,
IBM has filed 161755 patent applications at USPTO so far. Out of these 127104 have been granted leading to an impressive grant rate of 85.81%. Such a grant index is remarkable for a company like IBM which has more than a hundred thousand patents in its kitty. The table below
Red Hat the second-largest corporate contributor acquired by IBM last year with 3574 patents including its subsidiaries’ patent portfolio. The below chart will help you to knows more about it. We have also explored the technologies of the patents. Below is the chart.
More than 85% of the IBM patents were filed by their in-house IP team. However, there are attorneys from other law firms as well which helped IBM in building its world-leading patent portfolio. Below we have shown the top 5 law firms prosecuting IBM Patents: The chart above is derived
IBM broke its own record of 9100 granted patents in 2018 by earning 9262 patents in 2019 at USPTO. It could be the maximum number of patents any company has won in a single year but Samsung surpassed and broke IBM’s winning streak. Below we have visualized IBM patents per
In the past 20 years, IBM’s patents were cited by USPTO examiners approx 83,914 times to block patent applications of 6957 assignees. The companies facing these rejections include tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Intel to niche players like RedHat, and Oracle. For the analysis, we used 35 U.S.C. 102
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