Top United States Patent Recipients for 2007

Posted by: Michael Kondoudis in prosecution, Patents on May 28, 2008

The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) has released its annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. patents in 2007. The IPO's list is the only major compilation since the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office discontinued publishing an annual list of top patent recipients in order to “discourage any perception that we believe more is better."

The following five companies topped the 2007 list:

    1. International Business Machines Corp. - 3,125

    2. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - 2,723

    3. Canon K.K. - 2,047

    4. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. - 1,972

    5. Intel Corp. - 1,864

The full list is available here.

Michael Kondoudis

The Law Office of Michael E. Kondoudis, PC

a Washington DC patent firm

 

 


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IBM is first again
written by Michele Dimler, May 29, 2008
IBM is probably the biggest patent troll in the world. Why donsn't anyone care?
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A fascinating list
written by ophirtal, May 29, 2008
Thank you, this is a fascinating list. Do you know if it is available as data, may in conjuncture with a firm classification, for doing some statistics?
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The second ranked company is Hitachi LTD
written by meirav, May 29, 2008
Do notice that the USA has reached the 302nd place
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written by ophirtal, May 29, 2008
Well it's only the Air Forces. NASA has reached 178, the Army 121 and the Navy 68th place. Also interesting are Amkor at 285, Apple at 184 (only!) the University of California at 47th place with 388 patents in that year alone, and Kodak at 23th place with 694 patents.
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