Intellectual Property Licensing

Open new revenue opportunities with IBM intellectual property

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IBM's vast collection of intellectual property can increase your ability to operate to grow your business, make it more efficient or launch new products. Working with IBM's IP means much more than licensing patents. Clients can work directly with members of IBM's team of 250,000 scientists, researchers, engineers, developers and technologists who built one of the world's largest IP portfolios. This broad collaboration creates a diversity of viewpoints, backgrounds and expertise that enables profound new solutions. Helping clients solve these problems is one of the many ways IBM continues to generate innovation that matters for our company and the world.

IBM's know-how, along with IP assets, skills, and infrastructure, reaches into nearly every industry and every discipline of science and technology.

Industry Collaboration

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    Agriculture
    Assets from IBM's intellectual property portfolio can help meet the shifting demands of agriculture today.

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    Communications
    Communications firms must communicate with their customers and offer the services they want.

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    Electronics
    A complex patent landscape intensifies the need for freedom of action solutions

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    Energy
    Industry shifts necessitate analytics, modeling, simulation and advanced computing

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    Financial Services & Banking
    Sophisticated technologies fuel operational efficiency, manage risks and blunt cyberattacks

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    Healthcare
    Help improve patient care by analyzing massive amounts of data and identifying solutions

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    IP Management Solutions
    IBM's expertise extends to the management of intellectual property itself

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    Manufacturing
    Advanced technologies help manufacturers survive and thrive in today's global economy

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    Media and Entertainment
    Assets help media and entertainment entities thrive in the digital age's shifting environment

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    Retail
    Optimize upsell potential through customer insight, ROI analysis and risk profiling

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    Transportation
    Innovation on a massive scale speeds development, reduces costs and differentiates products

$6 billion annual R&D investment. 18 years as top US patent recipient. 250,000 technical experts around the world.

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