{"id":41030,"date":"2009-11-12T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091106\/0339216830.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-12T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T22:45:00","slug":"once-again-the-number-of-patents-you-hold-does-not-equal-how-much-innovation-youve-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/41030","title":{"rendered":"Once Again: The Number Of Patents You Hold Does Not Equal How Much Innovation You’ve Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve complained<\/a> in the past when companies, the press and analysts try to use number of patents as a “proxy” for innovation. It’s quite misleading — and various studies<\/a> have made that clear. You can have tremendous innovation without patents, and you can have tons of patents, without any real innovation. Yet, as reader Nick<\/a> points out, a report looking at the alternative energy auto space dings Ford for “lagging” in “the alternative energy race”<\/a> because it doesn’t have as many patents as others. <\/p>\n

This is a real shame, because we’ve discussed before how the massive patent thickets in the hybrid car space have been holding back innovation and development<\/a> in that space. In fact, Ford had a big tussle with Toyota a few years back after Toyota sued Ford and the two companies wasted tons of money and time in court, until the court finally pointed out that Ford did not infringe<\/a>. On top of that, Ford has been one of the earlier adopters of hybrid offerings and remains the third largest<\/a> hybrid seller after Toyota and Honda. So, claiming that it’s somehow “lagging” because of fewer patents is quite misleading.<\/p>\n

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We’ve complained in the past when companies, the press and analysts try to use number of patents as a “proxy” for innovation. It’s quite misleading — and various studies have made that clear. You can have tremendous innovation without patents, and you can have tons of patents, without any real innovation. Yet, as reader Nick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}