USPTO Releases Annual List of Top 10 Private Sector Received Most U.S. Patents
The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced the top 10 private sectors receiving the most U.S. patents during 2004 in January 2005. IBM tops the list for the twelfth consecutive year.
The list below is the Top 10 Private Sector Patent Recipients in 2004 compared with their rank in 2003.
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Preliminary List of Top Patenting Private Sectors during 2004 and Their Rank in 2003 | ||||
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Rank in 2004* |
Number of Patents in 2004* |
U.S. Private Sector |
Rank in 2003 |
(Number of Patents in 2003) |
|
1 |
3,248 |
International Business Machines Corporation |
1 |
3,415 |
|
2 |
1,934 |
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. |
4 |
1,774 |
|
3 |
1,805 |
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha |
2 |
1,992 |
|
4 |
1,775 |
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. |
5 |
1,759 |
|
5 |
1,760 |
Micron Technology, Inc. |
6 |
1,992 |
|
6 |
1,604 |
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. |
9 |
1,313 |
|
7 |
1,601 |
Intel Corporation |
7 |
1,592 |
|
8 |
1,514 |
Hitachi, Ltd |
3 |
1,893 |
|
9 |
1,310 |
Toshiba Corporation |
13 |
1,184 |
|
10 |
1,305 |
Sony Corporation |
10 |
1,311 |
*The listed patent counts are preliminary and are subject to correction. The final counts for the top private sector in 2004 will be available in April.
2013-07-17
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