Mirage Beats Cisco in 2008 Patents

Network World has an interesting article up on patents granted in 2008.  While the thrust of NWW's article is that over 50% of US patents in 2008 were granted to non-US based companies, I think they missed the real story.  In addition to having a vastly superior NAC product, Mirage beat Cisco in 2008 patents.  According to IFI, Cisco had 704 patents granted in 2008.  Mirage had one.  How is one greater than 704, you ask?  Simple math (unlike the goofy highly complex math of BCS rankings).

Mirage has 60 employees worldwide, which gives us a patent-to-employee ratio of .017.  Cisco, according to yahoo finance, has 66,129 full time employees worldwide, giving it a patent-to-employee ratio of .011.  Thus, it takes Cisco 94 employees to get a patent, where it only takes Mirage 60 (proving Mirage employees are 63.8% smarter than Cisco employees).  A decisive win, I would say.

How is that the mainstream press always misses the mark?