China lags on new tech patents Japan’s technology giants may be struggling to cope commercially with cheaper rivals from China and beyond but they’re still among the most innovative companies in the world, according to the IEEE. The institute’s sixth annual Patent Power scorecard ranks firms according to the size and quality of their US patent portfolios in …
Hmmm, Intel and Motorola - US.
Unix - US.
Windows - US.
Would love to know where you get the above ideas from?
About the only non-US IT things that are big are Linux and ARM.
To think that the UK could have developed modern computing alone is a bit daft. The US contribution and competition was good for computing.
>The institute’s sixth annual Patent Power scorecard ranks firms according to the size and quality of their US patent portfolios in categories such as semiconductor manufacturing, software, computer systems and electronics. Each category lists between 16 and 20 firms.
but then...
>One of the most telling observations is that only two Chinese firms appear on any of the relevant tech categories – Huawei, which filed 411 US patents in 2011, and Lenovo, which filed 81.
So which is it you're actually talking about? Portfolios? (Patents granted and perhaps pending) or "Fillings"? (gross application submissions regardless of outcome)
The devil's in the details you know. I can think of a reason why Chinese companies might be getting fewer patents granted by USPTO
Americans, why do you have to keep pointlessly inventing new words, when there's an old word, understood by everybody, that means exactly the same thing? Metric? You mean 'measure' - MEASURE!
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/metric?s=t
Honestly, it really doesn't make you sound more clever.
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