Craig Wolf writes in today’s Poughkeepsie Journal - “IBM Corp. said Tuesday that it had received 4,914 U.S. patents in 2009, which makes it the 17th consecutive year it has topped the list.

New York IBMers contributed heavily to the total. Four IBM sites in New York — East Fishkill, Endicott, Poughkeepsie and Yorktown — got 1,715 patents in 2009, spokesman Chris Andrews said.

“This made them the leading patentee in the state with 75 percent more patents than number two, General Electric, and more than five times the number of patents received by third-ranked Eastman Kodak,” he said”

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