Table 6-4 |
Top patenting corporations in United States: 1999, 2001, and 2003 |
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Company |
Patents |
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1999 |
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International Business Machines |
2,756 |
NEC |
1,842 |
Canon |
1,795 |
Samsung Electronics |
1,545 |
Sony |
1,417 |
Toshiba |
1,200 |
Fujitsu |
1,193 |
Motorola, Inc. |
1,192 |
Lucent Technologies |
1,163 |
Mitsubishi Denki |
1,054 |
2001 |
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International Business Machines |
3,411 |
NEC |
1,953 |
Canon |
1,877 |
Micron Technology, Inc. |
1,643 |
Samsung Electronics |
1,450 |
Matsushita Electric Industrial |
1,440 |
Sony |
1,363 |
Hitachi |
1,271 |
Mitsubishi Denki |
1,184 |
Fujitsu |
1,166 |
2003 |
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International Business Machines |
3,415 |
Canon |
1,992 |
Hitachi |
1,893 |
Matsushita Electric Industrial |
1,774 |
Micron Technology |
1,707 |
Intel Corporation |
1,592 |
Koninklijke Philips Electronics |
1,353 |
Samsung Electronics |
1,313 |
Sony |
1,311 |
Fujitsu |
1,302 |
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SOURCE: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Electronic Information Products, Patent Technology Monitoring Division, special tabulations (November 2004).
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Science and Engineering Indicators 2006 |
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