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    Image of kleptoman kleptoman
    01/14/09

    In reply to IBM First Company to Win 4,000 Patents in a Year, More Than Microsoft and Intel Combined
    4,000 patents probably translates to about 4,000,000 hours of legal counsel. As usual, the only people who benefit from this ingenuity are the lawyers...
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    Image of N@tedog N@tedog
    01/14/09

    @kleptoman: I was gonna say... Their legal council must be the same size as R&D.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/14/09

    In reply to IBM First Company to Win 4,000 Patents in a Year, More Than Microsoft and Intel Combined
    For the record, I am the world's first supercomputer sex machine.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/14/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Time for a firmware upgrade?
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    01/14/09

    In reply to IBM First Company to Win 4,000 Patents in a Year, More Than Microsoft and Intel Combined
    any top picks from that list of 4k. im sure there are some real eyeopeners
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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/14/09

    In reply to IBM First Company to Win 4,000 Patents in a Year, More Than Microsoft and Intel Combined
    I assume this is the nuclear missile philosophy thrown into the patent world. We need thousands of them because they have thousands of them, and if any of us ever use them, we're all fucked.
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    01/14/09

    @Monty: mutually assured lawsuit?

    or M.A.L.
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    Image of Mpls_Mikey Mpls_Mikey
    01/14/09

    @Monty: Actually, IBM is slightly different. They get a lot of patents so they can earn a lot in licensing revenues. I believe it was also the first company to earn $1 Billion in IP licensing revenues. So IBM looks at patents sort of like blue chip stocks.


    That being said, I am sure they also are known to get into litigation over their core business.

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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/14/09

    @Mpls_Mikey: They had a little known case against SCO that says they may be more than willing to litigate to protect their property. That said, I understand what you are saying. They certainly are a number of steps above the businesses that do nothing but buy patents.
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