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IBM's vast collection of intellectual property can increase your ability to operate to grow your business, make it more efficient or launch new products. Working with IBM's IP means much more than licensing patents. Clients can work directly with members of IBM's team of 250,000 scientists, researchers, engineers, developers and technologists who built one of the world's largest IP portfolios. This broad collaboration creates a diversity of viewpoints, backgrounds and expertise that enables profound new solutions. Helping clients solve these problems is one of the many ways IBM continues to generate innovation that matters for our company and the world.
IBM's know-how, along with IP assets, skills, and infrastructure, reaches into nearly every industry and every discipline of science and technology.
Industry Collaboration
Assets from IBM's intellectual property portfolio can help meet the shifting demands of agriculture today.
Communications firms must communicate with their customers and offer the services they want.
Industry shifts necessitate analytics, modeling, simulation and advanced computing
Sophisticated technologies fuel operational efficiency, manage risks and blunt cyberattacks
Help improve patient care by analyzing massive amounts of data and identifying solutions
Optimize upsell potential through customer insight, ROI analysis and risk profiling
Innovation on a massive scale speeds development, reduces costs and differentiates products
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Patent leadership
IBM received a record 6,180 patents in 2011, more than any other company for the 19th consecutive year
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Thoughts and observations about IP, inventions and patents