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In reply to the discussion: 'California is looking at our backside,' Texas Gov. Rick Perry says in San Francisco [View all]kentauros
(29,414 posts)because corporations are not individuals, no matter what the SC says or interprets. The fact that those same corporations represent 90% of the patents created says it all. Corporations are not the State, the people are. So, a mere 10% of the patents created were represented by individuals living in those states. That's not much.
Remember, too, that of all those thousands of patents mentioned in that article didn't necessarily come from any of those top states. Corporations love to buy up patents, whether they intend to use them or not. Did you notice that IBM is making their billion in the licensing of their patents? They aren't actually producing anything with the patents themselves. And in which states are those licenses being used? I saw nothing about that part.
The so called "common usage labels" of "red and blue" states is still wrong. That map proves it, and I'm not the only DUer to try and get people to stop using those incorrect terms.