July 15th, 2006

Top 45 patent recipients in the US in 2005

Posted by ZDNet Research @ 2:30 pm

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Intellectual Property Owners Association published a list of top patent recipients in the US for 2005. The top 45 patent recipients in 2005 are:

1. International Business Machines Corp. - 2941
2. Hitachi, Ltd. - 1918
3. Canon K.K. - 1875
4. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. - 1813
5. Hewlett-Packard Co. - 1808
6. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - 1641
7. Micron Technology, Inc. - 1561
8. Intel Corp. - 1549
9. Siemens A.G. - 1345
10. Toshiba Corp. - 1338
11. Sony Corp. - 1234
12. General Electric Co. - 1206
13. Fujitsu Ltd. - 1154
14. Seiko Epson Corp. - 884
15. Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V. - 794
16. Infineon Technologies A.G. - 787
17. Robert Bosch GmbH - 756
18. Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. - 750
19. Microsoft Corp. - 750
20. Texas Instruments, Inc. - 734
21. Sun Microsystems Inc. - 715
22. Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - 698
23. Eastman Kodak Co. - 694
24. NEC Corp. - 661
25. Mitsubishi Denki K.K. - 612
26. Denso Corp. - 609
27. Renesas Technology Corp. - 606
28. Agilent Technologies - 562
29. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - 526
30. Motorola - 511
31. Honeywell International Inc. - 500
32. Nokia Corp. - 496
33. Sharp Corp. - 473
34. Ricoh Co., Ltd. - 469
35. LG Electronics Inc. - 463 - 3M Co. - 443
36. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. - 441
37. Cisco Technology, Inc. - 440
38. Xerox Corp. - 426
39. Broadcom Corp. - 414
40. Delphi Technologies, Inc. - 405
41. Lucent Technologies Inc. - 405
42. Boeing Co. - 403
43. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. - 400
44. General Motors Corp. - 392
45. Pfizer Inc. - 389