Quality—not quantity—counts when it comes to patent portfolios. For evidence, look no further than Micron Technology, in Boise, Idaho, the world's second-largest maker of memory chips. Micron logged 1569 U.S. patents in 2005, just over half of IBM's 2972, for example. Now consider the resonance of those patents: how many other people cited them, how diverse the patent portfolio was, and how that diversity helped nurture and expand the portfolio in recent years. It quickly becomes clear that while IBM's assemblage yelled, Micron's roared.
In fact, Micron beat out thousands of organizations, including numerical patent champ IBM, to stake a claim to having the world's most powerful patent pipeline in IEEE Spectrum's first annual patent survey.
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