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Which Tech Giant Is Leading The Way? [INFOGRAPHIC]

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The media continues to report on the innovations happening at Google, Amazon and Apple but it’s IBM and Samsung who have been quietly collecting patents each year in the tech industry. For the last 24 years, IBM has held the top spot and in 2016 alone they filed for 8,088 applications. Take a look at the graphic below to see how many patent applications the tech giants have made in 2016.

Which Tech Giant Is Leading The Way

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