{"id":538643,"date":"2023-01-10T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ibm-just-broke-a-winning-streak-that-lasted-nearly-three-decades\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T22:58:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T19:58:00","slug":"ibm-just-broke-a-winning-streak-that-lasted-nearly-three-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ibm-just-broke-a-winning-streak-that-lasted-nearly-three-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"#: IBM just broke a winning streak that lasted nearly three decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a410c45593d0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ibm-just-broke-a-winning-streak-that-lasted-nearly-three-decades\/#Wallace_Witkowski\" >Wallace Witkowski<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C_IBM_just_broke_a_winning_streak_that_lasted_nearly_three_decades%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;: IBM just broke a winning streak that lasted nearly three decades&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Big_Blue_loses_2022_crown_for_most_patents_in_a_year_to_Samsung_the_first_time_IBM_hasnt_come_out_on_top_since_1993\"><\/span>\n  Big Blue loses 2022 crown for most patents in a year to Samsung, the first time IBM hasn\u2019t come out on top since 1993<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div class=\"article__side\">\n<div class=\"container--sticky not-active\">\n<div id=\"cx-next\" data-nosnippet>\n              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap crawler\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"WP-MKTW-0001551056\" role=\"document\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-track=\"barrons-article-ad-wrap\" class=\"barrons-article-ad sticky_item\">\n<div class=\"barrons-main-article-ad-target sticky_target body_ad\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-layout=\"\n                inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n          media-object\n          type-InsetArticleReader\n              \n              inline\n  article__inset\n          article__inset--type-InsetArticleReader\n              article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-object-article-reader\">\n<div class=\"audioplayer\" 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Samsung<br \/>\n        005930,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/209800866\/delayed\" class=\"negative\">-0.49%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       received 6,248 U.S. patents, a decline of 2% from its 6,364 patents in 2021, according to data compiled by IFI Claims Patent Services.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       The comparison between IBM and Samsung becomes even starker considering that IBM\u2019s second place netted 4,398 patents in 2022, compared with the 8,681 patents it was granted in 2021, a 49% drop. IBM Research Director Dario Gil said in <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/01\/06\/ibm-patent-record-how-to-measure-innovation-open-source-quantum-computing-tech\" class=\"icon none\">an article published in Fortune on Friday<\/a> that the company \u201cdecided in 2020 that we would no longer pursue the goal of numeric patent leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatents are only one measure of a company\u2019s true capacity for innovation. IBM will continue to patent new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, but patents alone are a more incomplete barometer than ever before,\u201d Gil wrote, explaining that IBM would be more focused on quality instead of quantity when it came to patent <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lications, with a focus on artificial intelligence and quantum computing. <\/p>\n<p>IBM was the only U.S. company to land in the top five, as Asian tech companies took the other top spots in the 2022 ranking of patents. Rounding out the top five were Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.<br \/>\n        TSM,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/204359850\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+1.04%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       with 3,024 patents, Huawei Technologies Co. with 2,836 patents, and Canon Inc.<br \/>\n        7751,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/207639533\/delayed\" class=\"positive\">+0.17%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       with 2,694 patents, according to IFI.<\/p>\n<p>The only other U.S. companies on the list were Qualcomm Inc.<br \/>\n        QCOM,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/206679220\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+1.18%<\/bg-quote><span>,<\/span><br \/>\n       Intel Corp.<br \/>\n        INTC,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/203649727\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-0.03%<\/bg-quote><span>,<\/span><br \/>\n       and Apple Inc.<br \/>\n        AAPL,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/202934861\/composite\" class=\"negative\">-0.17%<\/bg-quote><span>,<\/span><br \/>\n       in seventh, eighth and ninth places, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The figures show a pronounced shift of U.S. patents being granted to non-U.S. companies with 56% of grants in 2022 going to non-U.S. companies. U.S. companies, however, retained the lead with the most patents granted with 44%, or 142,703 patents, followed by Japanese companies with 46,504, and Chinese companies with 24,538 grants.<\/p>\n<p>IFI said Asian-based companies on its top 50 list earned 14% more patents (41,055) than their Western counterparts (35,365) in 2022, with 40,114 going to Japan, China and South Korea in 2022, compared with 32,130 for U.S. companies.<\/p>\n<p>IBM shares were last up 0.5% as the Dow Jones Industrial Index<br \/>\n        DJIA,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/210598065\/realtime\" class=\"positive\">+0.27%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       gained 0.3%, the S&amp;P 500 index<br \/>\n        SPX,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/210599714\/realtime\" class=\"positive\">+0.36%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       rose 0.6%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index<br \/>\n        COMP,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/225698164\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+3.04%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n       rose 0.9%.<\/p>\n<p>IFI also noted that 2022 was the third year of declining grants from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office owing to the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything was trending upward until COVID hit, but grants have been declining,\u201d Mike Baycroft, chief executive of IFI Claims Patent Services, said in a statement. \u201cThis might be due to the fact the USPTO faces a growing backlog of applications, some 700,000 currently, up from 540,000 unexamined patents in 2018.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>    <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author mobile-scrim hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Wallace Witkowski\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"bio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/topics\/journalists\/wallace-witkowski\",\"text\":\"Biography\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"twitter\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wmwitkowski\",\"text\":\"@wmwitkowski\"},{\"type\":\"link\",\"icon\":\"email\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/mailto:wwitkowski@marketwatch.com\",\"text\":\"wwitkowski@marketwatch.com\"}]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Wallace_Witkowski\"><\/span>Wallace Witkowski<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><ufc-follow-author-widget product=\"marketwatch\" author-id=\"202_MW\" author-name=\"Wallace Witkowski\" signin-url=\"https:\/\/accounts.marketwatch.com\/login?target=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marketwatch.com%2Fstory%2Fibm-just-broke-a-winning-streak-that-lasted-nearly-three-decades-11673380305%3Frss%3D1%26siteid%3Drss\" panda-api=\"https:\/\/follow-api.marketwatch.com\"><\/ufc-follow-author-widget><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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