IFI CLAIMS 2014 Top 50 US Patent Assignees
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| RANK | Grants | Assingee Name | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7534 | International Business Machines Corp | United States |
| 2 | 4952 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd | Korea |
| 3 | 4055 | Canon KK | Japan |
| 4 | 3224 | Sony Corp | Japan |
| 5 | 2829 | Microsoft Corp | United States |
| 6 | 2608 | Toshiba Corp | Japan |
| 7 | 2590 | Qualcomm Inc | United States |
| 8 | 2566 | Google Inc | United States |
| 9 | 2122 | LG Electronics Inc | Korea |
| 10 | 2095 | Panasonic Corp | Japan |
| 11 | 2003 | Apple Inc | United States |
| 12 | 1860 | General Electric Co | United States |
| 13 | 1820 | Fujitsu Ltd | Japan |
| 14 | 1662 | Seiko Epson Corp | Japan |
| 15 | 1634 | Ricoh Co Ltd | Japan |
| 16 | 1578 | Intel Corp | United States |
| 17 | 1574 | Hewlett Packard Development Co LP | United States |
| 18 | 1537 | Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson | Sweden |
| 18 | 1537 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd | Taiwan |
| 20 | 1511 | Samsung Display Co Ltd | Korea |
| 21 | 1502 | Toyota Motor Corp | Japan |
| 22 | 1475 | GM Global Technology Operations LLC | United States |
| 23 | 1460 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co | Taiwan |
| 24 | 1337 | BlackBerry Ltd | Canada |
| 25 | 1307 | AT&T Intellectual Property I LP | United States |
| 26 | 1197 | Broadcom Corp | United States |
| 27 | 1177 | Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co Ltd | Japan |
| 28 | 1147 | Honda Motor Co Ltd | Japan |
| 29 | 1142 | Brother Kogyo KK | Japan |
| 30 | 1107 | Sharp KK | Japan |
| 31 | 1097 | Robert Bosch GmbH | Germany |
| 32 | 1095 | Cisco Technology Inc | United States |
| 33 | 1069 | Micron Technology Inc | United States |
| 34 | 1058 | Siemens AG | Germany |
| 35 | 977 | NEC Corp | Japan |
| 36 | 967 | Xerox Corp | United States |
| 37 | 930 | FUJIFILM Corp | Japan |
| 38 | 908 | Hitachi Ltd | Japan |
| 39 | 902 | SK Hynix Inc | Korea |
| 40 | 901 | Boeing Co | United States |
| 41 | 897 | Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute | Korea |
| 42 | 868 | Koninklijke Philips NV | Netherlands |
| 43 | 839 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp | Japan |
| 44 | 835 | Fuji Xerox Co Ltd | Japan |
| 45 | 833 | Texas Instruments Inc | United States |
| 46 | 815 | Denso Corp | Japan |
| 47 | 790 | Ford Global Technologies LLC | United States |
| 48 | 775 | Huawei Technologies Co Ltd | China |
| 49 | 749 | Honeywell International Inc | United States |
| 50 | 745 | Amazon Technologies Inc | United States |
(updated 2015/01/29 – Errata – ranks 43,44,45 were out of order)