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Silicon Valley Nation: Patent frenzy picks up pace
Brian Fuller
1/11/2013 7:01 AM EST
Most-innovative industry?
But if you ever questioned what the most innovative industry is, you're working in it. In 2011, the top five categories for patent assignments were:
And those five represented just 7 percent of the total assignments, according to the data.
In fact, during the past 20 years, the two categories--"Semiconductor Device Manufacturing: Process" and "Active Solid-State Devices (e.g., Transistors, Solid-State Diodes)" are the No. 2 and No. 3 most-patented areas, behind only "Drug, Bio-Affecting and Body Treating Compositions."
Not a bad place to be for innovation.
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But if you ever questioned what the most innovative industry is, you're working in it. In 2011, the top five categories for patent assignments were:
- Multiplex Communications
- Active Solid-State Devices (e.g., Transistors, Solid-State Diodes)
- Semiconductor Device Manufacturing: Process
- Telecommunications
- Electrical Computers and Digital Processing Systems: Multicomputer Data Transferring
The total of these five categories represented a whopping 13 percent of the total number of assignments for that year.
Twenty years ago, the list looked like this:
- Drug, Bio-Affecting and Body Treating Compositions
- Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles
- Radiant Energy
- Active Solid-State Devices (e.g., Transistors, Solid-State Diodes)
- Radiation Imagery Chemistry: Process, Composition, or Product Thereof
And those five represented just 7 percent of the total assignments, according to the data.
In fact, during the past 20 years, the two categories--"Semiconductor Device Manufacturing: Process" and "Active Solid-State Devices (e.g., Transistors, Solid-State Diodes)" are the No. 2 and No. 3 most-patented areas, behind only "Drug, Bio-Affecting and Body Treating Compositions."
Not a bad place to be for innovation.
Related stories:
--Silicon Valley Nation: Innovation requires tight design chain
--Drive for Innovation
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rick.merritt
1/11/2013 2:22 PM EST
Yikes, Kia Silverbrook filed nearly five patents on average a day in 2012!
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charlie babcock
1/11/2013 7:31 PM EST
Today versus 20 years ago: Bio/Pharma,energy in decline in terms of winning patents; electronics/telecom/solid state on the rise. Charlie Babcock, Editor at large, InformationWeek
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