Steve Jobs Lives on at the Patent Office

Steve Jobs Still Wins Plenty of Patents | MIT Technology Review

 

What is Steve Jobs’s legacy? Here’s one measure: since his death in 2011 from pancreatic cancer, the former Apple CEO has won 141 patents. That’s more than most inventors win during their lifetimes. Jobs was closely involved in the details of many Apple products, and some of his inventions are still working their way through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The large number of them reflect Apple’s intense efforts to patent every aspect of its products, no matter how small, something Jobs himself encouraged. Altogether, a third of the 458 patented inventions and designs credited to Jobs have been approved since he died.