Monday, January 10, 2011

Fever Heats Up in U.S. patent

The patent office of the United States is doing piecework. In 2010 there were 219,614, up 31% over the previous year. As usual, the company succeeded in registering more patents than IBM in 5896 was 20% more than in 2009. But it is the only patent in this fever. Samsung Electronics, posted 4551, Microsoft, 3,094, Canon, 2552, Panasonic, 2482, Toshiba 2246, Sony, 2,150; Intel, 1,653; LG, 1,490, HP, 1480.

But these figures do not show the strength of research in that country. Many patents are attempting to register as a litigation tactic to protect competition or to negotiate the intersection of patents without payment to another company. U.S. law, unlike European ones, allow the patenting of software and business models.

A range of concepts that led to accept that, for example, Amazon, register the purchase with one click. Cnet cites IBM patents relating to photonic chips but also some extremely generic management regarding business models. An example of the situation leading the facility to make patent litigation crossing live mobile telephony sector, where Nokia, Motorola, Microsoft, Apple, HTC, Oracle, Google, Samsung, RIM, Sony Ericsson, Kodak.

.. have open lawsuits in which claims, for example, banning the sale of phones from a competitor for alleged patent infringement.

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