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Who’s Your Daddy? IBM, Microsoft, HP
By John | January 2, 2008
As one of those wacky year-in-review kind of things, I decided to waste a morning finding out who was the MacDaddy last year in patents issued. Go figure, IBM wins…
| Company | Number of Patents in 2007 |
| IBM | 3192 |
| Microsoft | 1974 |
| HP | 1564 |
| Sun | 747 |
| EMC | 179 |
| Oracle | 177 |
| SAP | 155 |
| 38 | |
| Yahoo | 29 |
| BMC | 8 |
Topics: bmc, emc, hp, ibm, oracle, other, sap |
