According to AppleInsider, Apple quarter of the issued in 2014 in the US patents related to mobile devices, which is 17% more compared to the previous year. The largest number of patents have been registered in the United States, Japan, China and Europe. In this case, the major "players" in the patent market became ZTE and Huawei, as well as the MediaTek and Xiaomi.
According to Chetan Sharma Consulting, the highest number of registered patents in the last year ranked was by IBM. Also, the three leaders entered the South Korean giant Samsung and American semiconductor solutions developer Qualcomm, which belong to the second and third places respectively. Then follow Microsoft, Google, Sony and LG. Eight lines, as already mentioned, went to Apple. And behind it, closing the top ten companies in the number of received patents last year, followed by BlackBerry and Ericsson. Related Products :
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