IBM gives more ideas to the public

IBM, who has received thousands of patents from the government, plans to give out over 3,000 items per year to the public in what is known as defensive publishing.

According to the New York Times, receiving 4,186 patents from the government in just the last year, IBM is planning to make some of the items it does not want to patent, to the public. In what is known as defensive publishing, IBM plans on giving out about 3,000 inventions per year. This will prevent other companies from being able to patent these ideas themselves. David Kappos of IBM states that it is the time for the company to try something new. Through defensive publication, IBM wants to promote topics such as health care, education and the environment. IBM plans to make public inventions such as allowing a computer to shut down when a computer is not being used, using RFID tags to alert when it has been removed from its location. Though IBM is now focusing on its more advanced technological inventions, it still believes that these publicly distributed items are still very important.