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Did you know that Xerox holds 50,000+ patents? Ethan, our analyst, found this this information while investigating insider trades for a Signal this week (coming out in the email in a bit but I'll link below too)https://trends.co/signal/the-inside-scoop-on-insider-trades/ …
Turns out Xerox gets an 2 patents per day, spends ~$1B+ on innovation each year, and literally invented copy machines, laser printers, Ethernet, and more.
What other companies do you find surprisingly innovative?
from @damn_ethan
Bell Labs invented *a ton* of the basis for technology we take for granted today. It's moved ownership several times in its over a century of operation, but it's currently owned by Nokia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs
Motorola and Nokia have a great portfolio of patents worth looking into as well. I'm sure GE and Honeywell have something in the archives as well.
Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) is just down the street from Stanford and is famously the place where Steve Jobs first saw a GUI.
Did you know that copy and paste was shoe horned into one of the first interfaces by Mgmt at Xerox because it was aligned to their business (copiers). Read in Jaron Lanier's Who owns the future
Xerox engineers also invented the modern point-and-click GUI, but execs didn’t see the potential. A short time later, Steve Jobs toured Xerox’s research facility, and the rest is history...https://crm.org/articles/xerox-parc-and-the-origins-of-gui …
Blackberry $BB is another legacy tech firm with an impressive patent portfolio (44,000+).
Debatable whether this constitutes “innovation,” however... they’ve been repeatedly accused of being a “patent troll” with weak/invalid IP claims.
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