Read away here! http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/study-one-quarter-of-us-patents-issued-year-will-be-in-mobile-215366
Some interesting tidbits right here: a quarter of all patents in the U.S. this year are mobile related. We've seen countless times in this class just how many patents get filed, so for 1/4 of them to be about mobile items, that's kind of ridiculous. It really shows how big mobile businesses are getting, and the hardware behind it too. I think it's safe to say that there are some huge things on the horizon for mobile phones, and the fact that there are so many patents being released really backs it up.
In other news, the mobile related patents issued grew by 591% from 2002 to 2012. U.S. is ahead in mobile patents beating out Europe. Some facts they claim:
" Last year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted nearly three times as many mobile patents as the European Patent Office. The U.S. has taken the lead partly because of the growing importance of mobile software development, which takes place predominantly in the U.S."
Not only that, Samsung Electronics has the most MOBILE related patents across the U.S. and Europe. (IBM is still the largest overall patent holder). Samsung had the most patents granted in 2012 and they were for innovations in devices and network infrastructure/tech.
So now we know that Samsung can be considered a dominant patent holder, way above Apple and Google, how do you think future patent litigation will favor?
I think, this study is a great evidence of the direction where development of tech industry is going - mobile.
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