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Patent Leader

BY Heath RowWed Jan 12, 2005
This blog is written by a member of our blogging community and expresses that member's views alone.

PatentCafe recently released its list of the top 200 companies, ranked in terms of how many patents they received. Here are the top 10:

  • International Business Machines Corporation 3,254
  • Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. - 2,174
  • Hitachi, Ltd. - 2,041
  • Samsung - 1,934
  • Canon Kabushiki Kaisha 1,875
  • Hewlett-Packard Company 1,836
  • Micron Technology, Inc. - 1,764
  • Sony Corporation 1,686
  • Intel Corporation 1,604
  • Fujitsu Limited 1,465

Interestingly, IBM has maintained the top spot for the last 11 years. What do you think accounts for IBM's patent dominance?