Who Files The Most Patents? Key Apple Inc. Supplier Among Top 10

Any idea about patents or who files the most patents? Insider Monkey brings us a posting about " Who Files The Most Patents? Key Apple Inc. Supplier Among Top 10". A key Apple supplier, Foxconn, is in the top ten. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is known by its followers to be particularly grabby in the patent space, which can be seen as a virtue or a sin, depending on your feelings toward the tech company. That's why it's surprising to note that in the year 2012, Apple itself was not among the U.S.'s top ten filers, but it did have a place in the top 30.

A patent is a form of intellectual property, and it involves a set of exclusive rights given by a state for an inventor. It is a solution to a technological good and is related to some kind of product or process. See Insider Monkey for more details on patents.