IFI CLAIMS 2014 Top 50 US Patent Assignees
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| Rank | Grants | Assignee Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,534 | International Business Machines Corp |
| 2 | 4,952 | Samsung Electronics Co Ltd |
| 3 | 4,055 | Canon KK |
| 4 | 3,224 | Sony Corp |
| 5 | 2,829 | Microsoft Corp |
| 6 | 2,608 | Toshiba Corp |
| 7 | 2,590 | Qualcomm Inc |
| 8 | 2,566 | Google Inc |
| 9 | 2,122 | LG Electronics Inc |
| 10 | 2,095 | Panasonic Corp |
| 11 | 2,003 | Apple Inc |
| 12 | 1,860 | General Electric Co |
| 13 | 1,820 | Fujitsu Ltd |
| 14 | 1,662 | Seiko Epson Corp |
| 15 | 1,634 | Ricoh Co Ltd |
| 16 | 1,578 | Intel Corp |
| 17 | 1,574 | Hewlett Packard Development Co LP |
| 18 | 1,537 | Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson |
| 18 | 1,537 | Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd |
| 20 | 1,511 | Samsung Display Co Ltd |
| 21 | 1,502 | Toyota Motor Corp |
| 22 | 1,475 | GM Global Technology Operations LLC |
| 23 | 1,460 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co |
| 24 | 1,337 | BlackBerry Ltd |
| 25 | 1,307 | AT&T Intellectual Property I LP |
| 26 | 1,197 | Broadcom Corp |
| 27 | 1,177 | Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co Ltd |
| 28 | 1,147 | Honda Motor Co Ltd |
| 29 | 1,142 | Brother Kogyo KK |
| 30 | 1,107 | Sharp KK |
| 31 | 1,097 | Robert Bosch GmbH |
| 32 | 1,095 | Cisco Technology Inc |
| 33 | 1,069 | Micron Technology Inc |
| 34 | 1,058 | Siemens AG |
| 35 | 977 | NEC Corp |
| 36 | 967 | Xerox Corp |
| 37 | 930 | FUJIFILM Corp |
| 38 | 908 | Hitachi Ltd |
| 39 | 902 | SK Hynix Inc |
| 40 | 901 | Boeing Co |
| 41 | 897 | Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute |
| 42 | 868 | Koninklijke Philips NV |
| 43 | 839 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp |
| 44 | 835 | Fuji Xerox Co Ltd |
| 45 | 833 | Texas Instruments Inc |
| 46 | 815 | Denso Corp |
| 47 | 790 | Ford Global Technologies LLC |
| 48 | 775 | Huawei Technologies Co Ltd |
| 49 | 749 | Honeywell International Inc |
| 50 | 745 | Amazon Technologies Inc |
Rankings were compiled using the USPTO source-data by current company or assignee name on file at the USPTO.
(updated 2015/01/29 – Errata – ranks 43,44,45 were out of order)
