Yes, I don't like patents either (ok, abusing patents).
The IEEE does more than that just counting patents, though. The biggest patten holder almost every yeas is IBM (they're also very proud of it, they kept mentioning it in Boblingen), for example, but they didn't get the first place, so there are other criteria (most important, the scientific value of its patent portfolio).
There was another survey, also by IEEE (I don't know of any ACM survey), and MS was voted as the best partner of scientific research communities.
The IEEE does more than that just counting patents, though. The biggest patten holder almost every yeas is IBM (they're also very proud of it, they kept mentioning it in Boblingen), for example, but they didn't get the first place, so there are other criteria (most important, the scientific value of its patent portfolio).
There was another survey, also by IEEE (I don't know of any ACM survey), and MS was voted as the best partner of scientific research communities.
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