At US Patent Office, Mobile Makes Up Nearly Quarter of Those Granted

By one estimate, nearly a quarter of all patents being granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are now going to mobile technologies, a concentration of innovation that shows why a company like Google would pay $12.5 billion for a treasure chest of patents like Motorola Mobility Holdings. Chetan Sharma, an independent consultant focused on the wireless industry, analyzed 7 million patents granted by the U.S. patent office and the European Patent Office for a new report examining how mobile technologies are changing the composition of intellectual property pursuits.