IFI Patent Intelligence released its annual compilation of the world’s top-ranked U.S.-patent companies.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a total of 157,774 utility patents in calendar year 2008, up slightly over 2007’s total of 157,284.
Although IBM still tops the list and is ahead by a relatively wide margin, the scales of patent-quantity supremacy may be shifting away from corporate America in favor of companies overseas, especially to those in Asia.
American companies captured only 49 percent of U.S. patents granted to companies compared to 50 percent in 2007.
The Top 10 patent recipients:
1. IBM 4186
2. SAMSUNG 3515
3. CANON 2114
4. MICROSOFT 2030
5. INTEL 1776
6. MATSUSHITA 1745
7. TOSHIBA 1609
8. FUJITSU 1494
9. SONY CORP 1485
10. HP 1424
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