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IBM Breaks U.S. Patent Record; Tops Patent List for 19th Consecutive Year
IBM announced that it set a new U.S. patent record in 2011, marking the 19th consecutive year that the company has led the annual list of patent recipients. IBM inventors earned a record 6,180 U.S. patents in 2011, more than quadrupling Hewlett-Packard's issuances and exceeding by six times those of Oracle/Sun.
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WellPoint, Inc. and IBM announced an agreement to create the first commercial applications of the IBM Watson technology.
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