- List of top United States patent recipients
The USPTO will no longer release an annual list of top 10 organizations receiving the most U.S. patents. The 2006 data will be available in April 2007, in the annual “Patenting by Organizations” report on the agency's web site (http://www.uspto.gov). This report profiles U.S. patents granted to U.S. and international organizations receiving 40 or more patents each year.
Source: http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/notices/ceasingpatentslist.htm
The following is a list of the top ten
recipients ofpatent s issued by theUnited States Patent and Trademark Office in the year indicated:2005 # 2941 patents to
IBM , headquartered inArmonk, New York
#1828 patents to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, headquartered inTokyo
#1797 patents toHewlett-Packard , headquartered inPalo Alto, California
#1688 patents toMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. , headquartered in Kadoma, Japan
#1641 patents to Samsung Electronics Co., headquartered in Daegu, Korea
#1561 patents toMicron Technology , headquartered inBoise, Idaho
#1549 patents to Intel Corporation, headquartered inSanta Clara, California
#1271 patents toHitachi, Ltd. , headquartered inTokyo
#1258 patents to Toshiba Corporation, headquartered inTokyo
#1154 patents to Fujitsu Limited, headquartered inTokyo 2004 #3248 patents to
IBM , headquartered inArmonk, New York
#1934 patents toMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. , headquartered in Kadoma, Japan
#1805 patents to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, headquartered inTokyo
#1775 patents toHewlett-Packard , headquartered inPalo Alto, California
#1760 patents toMicron Technology , headquartered inBoise, Idaho
#1604 patents to Samsung Electronics Co., headquartered in Daegu, Korea
#1601 patents to Intel Corporation, headquartered inSanta Clara, California
#1514 patents toHitachi, Ltd. , headquartered inTokyo
#1310 patents to Toshiba Corporation, headquartered inTokyo
#1305 patents to Sony Corporation, headquartered inTokyo 2003 #3415 patents to
IBM , headquartered inArmonk, New York
#1992 patents to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, headquartered inTokyo
#1893 patents toHitachi, Ltd. , headquartered inTokyo
#1786 patents to Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., headquartered in Kadoma, Japan
#1759 patents toHewlett-Packard , headquartered inPalo Alto, California
#1707 patents toMicron Technology , headquartered inBoise, Idaho
#1592 patents to Intel Corporation, headquartered inSanta Clara, California
#1353 patents to Royal Philips Electronics, headquartered inAmsterdam
#1313 patents to Samsung Electronics Co., headquartered in Daegu, Korea
#1311 patents to Sony Corporation, headquartered inTokyo 2002 #
IBM
#Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
#Micron Technology
#NEC Corporation
#Hitachi, Ltd.
#Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
#Sony Corporation
#General Electric Company
#Hewlett-Packard
#Mitsubishi Denki K.K.2001 #
IBM
#NEC Corporation
#Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
#Micron Technology
#Samsung Electronics
#Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
#Sony Corporation
#Hitachi, Ltd.
#Mitsubishi Denki K.K
#Fujitsu , headquartered inTokyo 2000 #
IBM
#NEC Corporation
#Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
#Samsung Electronics
#Lucent Technologies
#Sony Corporation
#Micron Technology
#Toshiba
#Motorola
#Fujitsu 1999 #
IBM
#NEC Corporation
#Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
#Samsung Electronics
#Sony Corporation
#Toshiba
#Fujitsu
#Motorola
#Lucent Technologies
#Mitsubishi Denki K.K.1998 #
IBM
#Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
#NEC Corporation
#Motorola
#Sony Corporation
#Samsung Electronics
#Fujitsu
#Toshiba
#Eastman Kodak Co.
#Hitachi, Ltd. 1997 #
IBM
#Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
#NEC Corporation
#Motorola
#Fujitsu
#Hitachi, Ltd.
#Mitsubishi Denki K.K
#Toshiba
#Sony Corporation
#Eastman Kodak Co.References
* [http://www.uspto.gov/ United States Patent & Trademark Office Statistics]
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