Rapporto: l’UE è ben posizionata nel settore quantistico, con il suo forte ecosistema di ricerca e innovazione e investimenti significativi. L’UE vanta il 32% delle aziende mondiali di tecnologia quantistica, ma solo il 6% dei brevetti

Seems like the EU always begins being well-positioned at the start of every tech trend, then always ends up being the last of the pack in a few years.

As someone who works in a High-tech field, patents have become a completely useless metric. Big companies are hurling out patents without any reasons, partly because employees have mandatory or bonus bringing patent quotas and partially because investors have decided “numbers of patents” to be their new vogue metric.

90% of all patents (of high-tech companies) are literally “Here is a way to do something worse, but nobody has patented it yet, so here we go”, while 9% are easily circumnavigable, so that everybody just copies them anyway by just painting their machine blue.

Only really 1% of all patents of these companies are actually interesting. And to the surprise of no one, the true unicorns only have a handful of patents all worth 10s of million of dollars the piece.

Also note, the truly important know-how does not get patented at all. Because if you filed a patent, your truly important know-how would be out there for anyone to see and learn (even if they are technically bared from using it for a set amount of time, as if that has ever stopped anybody). So as long as it cannot be reverse engineered from your finished product, the know-how that your company truly depends on, stays within your circle of trusted engineers.

We need to learn patents enable lots of revenue from licensing. USA is a beast on that. Also, USPTO seems to grant anyhing.