January 10, 2006
#06-03
Contact:
Brigid Quinn or Ruth Nyblod
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Press Release, 06-03
PRESS RELEASE
American Innovation Continues to Top the Field
The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today the 2005 top 10 global private sector patent recipients. Listed below are the 10 corporations receiving the most U.S. patents for inventions in 2005, along with their 2004 ranking.
“America’s technological and economic strength is the result of its tremendous ingenuity,” said Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property Jon Dudas. “The USPTO has taken and will continue to take aggressive steps that will enhance quality and improve productivity to ensure that U.S. intellectual property protection remains the best in the world, protecting American innovation and sustaining economic growth.”
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Preliminary Rank in 2005
|
Preliminary # Patents in 2005
|
Organization
|
(Final Rank
in 2004) |
(Final Number of Patents in 2004)
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1
|
2,941
|
International Business Machines Corporation |
(1)
|
(3,248)
|
|
2
|
1,828
|
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha |
(3)
|
(1,805)
|
|
3
|
1,797 *
|
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. * |
(4)
|
(1,775)
|
|
4
|
1,688
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. |
(2)
|
(1,934)
|
|
5
|
1,641
|
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. |
(6)
|
(1,604)
|
|
6
|
1,561
|
Micron Technology, Inc |
(5)
|
(1,760)
|
|
7
|
1,549
|
Intel Corporation |
(7)
|
(1,601)
|
|
8
|
1,271
|
Hitachi, Ltd |
(8)
|
(1,513)
|
|
9
|
1,258
|
Toshiba Corporation |
(9)
|
(1,311)
|
|
10
|
1,154
|
Fujitsu Limited |
(11)
|
(1,296)
|
* Calendar year counts for 2005 for Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. include seven patents issued to Hewlett-Packard Company.
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