{"id":68,"date":"2006-12-20T21:25:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T01:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2006\/12\/20\/how-much-to-companies-really-make-fr"},"modified":"2006-12-23T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T17:33:05","slug":"how-much-to-companies-really-make-from-their-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2006\/12\/20\/how-much-to-companies-really-make-from-their-patents\/","title":{"rendered":"How much do companies really make from their patents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question always bugged me, particularly for larger corporations like IBM &#8211; so I did some quick analysis and this is what I came up with.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/ibm\/licensing\/patents\/portfolio.shtml\">IBM website<\/a>, the company spends about $5 billion per year on research and development.\u00a0 At present, they have about 40,000 active patents worldwide, with 26,000 patents within the US.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, different reports have IBM earning between $1 billion to $1.8 billion per year\u00a0for its intellectual property.\u00a0 If that is the case, then based on 40,000 patents, IBM&#8217;s average revenues per patent range from $25,000 to $45,000 per year.\u00a0\u00a0 While the company&#8217;s IBM IP revenues are large in aggregate, surprising the revenue per patent is quite modest.\u00a0 I honestly thought it would be much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question always bugged me, particularly for larger corporations like IBM &#8211; so I did some quick analysis and this is what I came up with. According to the IBM website, the company spends about $5 billion per year on research and development.\u00a0 At present, they have about 40,000 active patents worldwide, with 26,000 patents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}