PatentCafe published its annual top 200 companies ranked by the number of patents they own. The top 10 looks like this:
1. International Business Machines Corporation - 3,254
2. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. - 2,174
3. Hitachi, Ltd. - 2,041
4. Samsung - 1,934
5. Canon Kabushiki Kaisha - 1,875
6. Hewlett-Packard Company - 1,836
7. Micron Technology, Inc. - 1,764
8. Sony Corporation - 1,686
9. Intel Corporation - 1,604
10.Fujitsu Limited - 1,465
IBM leads the top for the last 11 years, but Samsung is a company that is currently innovating and could reach the second place in 2005.
Find more about the top 200 on
PatentCafe's website. Thanks for the news to the
Fast Company Blog.
Posted by Mihai : 1/13/2005 10:23:00 am
Top companies by patents