Israeli IBM researchers received 139 patents in 2011

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1. Tel=-0544309900

2. The other self:
   My opinion is the opposite of yours.
   I have already summarized it before, for example here:
   https://www.hayadan.org.il/z-cube-and-yisum-2805095/#comment-220347

   I personally made millions from inventing and registering patents.

3. It seems to me that I have reached the peak in the number of errors per paragraph... Here is the penultimate paragraph again corrected:

   I personally came to the conclusion that registering patents is a waste of money, entrepreneurs have no money to spend, the investment in the first stages of product development comes out of their pockets. Registering a patent is a long process that can fail at any stage, even in the advanced stages, and the money intended for the registration of the patent, which in most cases will not have validity (unless it is really some kind of new deep technology - rare) mainly supports patent editors and the employees of the patent offices - in short goes to waste and not to anything productive.

4. Regarding searching for patents - there is a company in Israel called Newton that searches for patents for you. Their business model is that if they searched and found competing patents, you pay them (a reasonable amount) and if they didn't find them, you didn't pay:
   http://www.new-tone.co.il/

   In my opinion, the whole issue of patents has become a countermeasure and causes a significant stoppage of innovation. Many good products are abandoned because the idea has already been patented, even though that patent or previous patents never made it to market.
   In my opinion, the absolute majority of the registered patents never became products. And their entire role amounts to preventing and promoting new products. This is especially noticeable in the pharmaceutical industry, where there are actually patenting tactics and strategies designed mainly to prevent competitors from registering new patents, even though the company that registers the patent does not always intend to implement these patents (registration of broad patents).

   There are enough historical examples of companies making and making billions despite never filing a patent infringement suit against imitators. One such company is BIC - the company that has the patent for a ballpoint pen. Although there are hundreds of manufacturers in the world that sell ballpoint pens, BIC has never filed a lawsuit for patent infringement and still today earns around 4 billion dollars a year due to a correct combination of cost/benefit positioning and effective advertising.

   I personally came to the conclusion that registering patents is a waste of money, entrepreneurs have no money to spend, in the way the first stages of product development come out of their pockets and this money intended for registering the patent, which in most cases will not have validity (but it really is some kind of new deep technology - rare) mainly supports patent editors and The employees of the patent offices - in short, goes to waste and not to something productive.

   And we didn't talk at all about the almost non-existent protection that a patent actually provides, a claim for patent infringement is a double-edged sword, there is no way to know how it will end and a lot of politics, capital and connections are involved here. See the Epiledi example.

   In conclusion - this whole institution is outdated and contradicts the purpose for which it was established - protection of innovation.

5. Inventor of patents:
   Patents are associated with groups that characterize subjects http://www.uspto.gov/patents/resources/classification/index.jsp
   The patent examiners check in which classes the proposed patent would be classified and search in these classes.
   Beyond that, they use words that are expected to be used in similar patents.
   I had the chance to register several patents and I remember quite a few cases in which after I thought I had come up with an idea worth registering as a patent and I was sure that it was the newest thing in the world - I found quite easily, through an automated search - that the idea had already been discovered and registered by others.
   This is something that everyone who wants to register a patent should do to save unnecessary expenses.
   First of all, the inventor has to search.
   If he doesn't find it - he should ask the patent editor to search for him (patent editors know better search tools. It has already happened that I didn't find the idea I had uploaded among the registered patents, but the patent editor did find it. This failure in finding the patent myself cost me some money, but saved me the high expense involved in the further process).
   If the patent attorney can't find it either and the patent is filed - it still often happens that the examiners (at the various levels - there are several levels of examination - there is what is called PCT and then there is the National Phase where the patent offices in the various countries already come into action).
   The earlier the competing patents are discovered, the patent applicant can save himself expenses on idle actions that will ultimately fail.
   Searching the patent database is actually the easiest part of the process. The problem is that it is not enough!
   Any article that describes the idea or that alludes to it clearly enough invalidates the patent even if it is not registered as a patent.
   If someone brought up the idea in a daily newspaper in Timbuktu - the patent - even if registered - is not valid.
   Such articles are more difficult to discover and the patent examiners also do not have good tools to do so (searching for articles on Google will usually yield many idle results and it is impossible to read so many articles).
   Therefore - and also because the examiners themselves are nothing but human beings - it happens that a patent is registered and only after the registration it becomes clear that the patent is not valid.
   In conclusion - the examiners manage to find Prior Art more efficiently than your words suggest - but it is not a hermetic system.

   point:
   It is true that those who invent patents are people, but there is a lot of influence on society as well.
   First of all, there is what should be called "the spirit of the company" - is it a company that likes innovations or a company that prefers to walk on already paved roads.
   There are many companies that have many people and have no patents at all.
   It is also a question of budgets - registering a patent costs money and not every company or every person will allow themselves to spend this money.
   There can also be differences in the business approach - some companies will prefer to keep their inventions as a professional secret and will not reveal it to the public by registering a patent.
   Of course, the question mentioned in the article is also important and that is "How many resources is the company willing to invest in open research?"

6. A company does not invent patents. Humans invent them. A company is entirely an economic legal concept

7. The IBM patent if anyone is interested:

   http://s3.ptodirect.com/8005773.pdf

8. Can someone explain to me once simply how the whole topic of patent examination works in patent institutes in the world? I imagine that there is a huge amount of patents of all imaginable types in the databases... How is a human being (and even a group of people) able to go through such a huge amount of registered patents to make sure that the submitted patent does not already exist in the system? This seems to me to be a simply impossible task, after all every patent that is filed can exist in the database in a thousand and one forms and variations, no matter how sophisticated the search mechanism is, it seems to me absolutely impossible to verify by manual search 100% that any patent that has been filed does not already exist in the system....

   How do you check it? And what happens if, after a patent is registered, they suddenly discover that a similar patent already existed? Canceling the last registered one? what? How exactly is it going…?

   I would appreciate an explanation from those who are knowledgeable in the field, thank you!

9. Patents are great, but not enough for companies to survive. Kodak had a lot of patents (in the top ten of the companies that invent patents in the world) and still it collapsed. It is more important to know what to do with these patents, what their applicability is, which of them are in demand and how this can be translated into money. In short, the most important thing is to know how to manage companies in a smart way, especially in today's chaotic economic world.

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