2020 Patent Assets of the S&P 100
Our unique patent analysis of the S&P 100 gives financial analysts a powerful tool to evaluate the intangible assets of major publicly traded companies.
The ranking below includes S&P 100 companies and their global patent assets on January 4, 2021. Subsidiaries with patent assets are also included. A patent family includes filings of the same invention by the same applicant in multiple countries or jurisdictions.
| Ticker | Name | Active Families (Jan 4, 2021) | Active Families (Jan 2, 2020) | Δ | % Change | Sharing |
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| IBM | International Business Machines Corp | 38,541 | 37,304 | 1,237 | 3 |
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| MSFT | Microsoft Corp | 30,042 | 29,824 | 218 | 1 |
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| GE | General Electric Co | 23,630 | 30,010 | -6,380 | -21 |
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| INTC | Intel Corp | 23,523 | 24,628 | -1,105 | -4 |
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| GOOGL | Alphabet Inc | 21,762 | 21,084 | 678 | 3 |
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| QCOM | Qualcomm Inc | 21,522 | 21,255 | 267 | 1 |
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| RTX | Raytheon Technologies Corp | 20,800 | 20,800 |
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| AAPL | Apple Inc | 18,161 | 14,849 | 3,312 | 22 |
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| F | Ford Motor Co | 17,905 | 16,942 | 963 | 6 |
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| GM | General Motors Co | 17,384 | 17,778 | -394 | -2 |
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| HON | Honeywell International Inc | 14,163 | 13,892 | 271 | 2 |
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| TXN | Texas Instruments Inc | 13,282 | 13,253 | 29 | 0 |
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| ORCL | Oracle Corp | 13,212 | 13,254 | -42 | 0 |
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| MDT | Medtronic PLC | 12,980 | 12,400 | 580 | 5 |
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| JNJ | Johnson and Johnson | 12,442 | 12,226 | 216 | 2 |
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| BA | Boeing Co | 11,966 | 10,897 | 1,069 | 10 |
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| CSCO | Cisco Systems Inc | 11,874 | 11,498 | 376 | 3 |
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| AMZN | Amazon com Inc | 11,060 | 9,455 | 1,605 | 17 |
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| PG | Procter and Gamble Co | 8,997 | 8,950 | 47 | 1 |
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| T | AT&T Inc | 8,376 | 8,106 | 270 | 3 |
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| MMM | 3M Co | 8,250 | 8,306 | -56 | -1 |
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| SLB | Schlumberger Ltd | 7,311 | 7,412 | -101 | -1 |
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| NKE | Nike Inc | 7,141 | 6,787 | 354 | 5 |
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| DOW | Dow Inc | 6,761 | 6,532 | 229 | 4 |
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| VZ | Verizon Communications Inc | 6,197 | 5,656 | 541 | 10 |
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| ABT | Abbott Laboratories | 5,939 | 6,265 | -326 | -5 |
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| CAT | Caterpillar Inc | 5,936 | 5,622 | 314 | 6 |
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| FB | Facebook Inc | 4,931 | 3,716 | 1,215 | 33 |
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| XOM | Exxon Mobil Corp | 4,434 | 4,327 | 107 | 2 |
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| EMR | Emerson Electric Co | 4,178 | 3,919 | 259 | 7 |
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| BRK.A | Berkshire Hathaway Inc | 4,121 | 4,191 | -70 | -2 |
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| DHR | Danaher Corp | 4,024 | 3,834 | 190 | 5 |
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| NVDA | Nvidia Corp | 3,787 | 3,135 | 652 | 21 |
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| ADBE | Adobe Inc | 3,654 | 3,261 | 393 | 12 |
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| TMO | Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc | 3,552 | 3,658 | -106 | -3 |
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| LMT | Lockheed Martin Corp | 3,272 | 3,240 | 32 | 1 |
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| MRK | Merck and Co Inc | 2,818 | 2,969 | -151 | -5 |
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| ABBV | AbbVie Inc | 2,616 | 1,211 | 1,405 | 116 |
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| BAC | Bank of America Corp | 2,440 | 2,126 | 314 | 15 |
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| BMY | Bristol Myers Squibb Co | 2,422 | 2,503 | -81 | -3 |
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| DIS | Walt Disney Co | 2,314 | 2,077 | 237 | 11 |
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| CL | Colgate Palmolive Co | 2,312 | 2,282 | 30 | 1 |
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| PFE | Pfizer Inc | 2,096 | 2,357 | -261 | -11 |
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| CVX | Chevron Corp | 2,016 | 2,042 | -26 | -1 |
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| DD | DuPont de Nemours Inc | 1,891 | 1,932 | -41 | -2 |
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| ACN | Accenture PLC | 1,828 | 1,668 | 160 | 10 |
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| CRM | Salesforce com Inc | 1,618 | 1,618 |
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| CMCSA | Comcast Corp | 1,356 | 1,201 | 155 | 13 |
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| PEP | Pepsico Inc | 1,234 | 1,229 | 5 | 0 |
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| COF | Capital One Financial Corp | 1,184 | 691 | 493 | 71 |
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| WMT | Walmart Inc | 1,163 | 905 | 258 | 29 |
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| TGT | Target Corp | 1,126 | 1,080 | 46 | 4 |
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| PYPL | PayPal Inc | 1,121 | 976 | 145 | 15 |
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| MA | Mastercard Inc | 1,077 | 805 | 272 | 34 |
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| PM | Philip Morris International Inc | 1,055 | 829 | 226 | 27 |
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| JPM | JPMorgan Chase and Co | 1,035 | 1,007 | 28 | 3 |
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| V | Visa Inc | 1,011 | 904 | 107 | 12 |
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| AMGN | Amgen Inc | 944 | 917 | 27 | 3 |
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| MO | Altria Group Inc | 907 | 833 | 74 | 9 |
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| MDLZ | Mondelez International Inc | 876 | 847 | 29 | 3 |
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| LLY | Eli Lilly and Co | 779 | 925 | -146 | -16 |
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| WFC | Wells Fargo and Co | 722 | 560 | 162 | 29 |
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| TSLA | Tesla Inc | 689 | 633 | 56 | 9 |
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| GILD | Gilead Sciences Inc | 648 | 525 | 123 | 23 |
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| KO | Coca Cola Co | 633 | 626 | 7 | 1 |
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| CHTR | Charter Communications Inc | 577 | 506 | 71 | 14 |
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| KHC | Kraft Heinz Co | 561 | 615 | -54 | -9 |
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| COP | ConocoPhillips Co | 483 | 486 | -3 | -1 |
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| GD | General Dynamics Corp | 480 | 484 | -4 | -1 |
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| UPS | United Parcel Service Inc | 314 | 298 | 16 | 5 |
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| ALL | Allstate Corp | 310 | 248 | 62 | 25 |
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| BIIB | Biogen Inc | 290 | 296 | -6 | -2 |
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| AXP | American Express Co | 268 | 229 | 39 | 17 |
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| MS | Morgan Stanley | 246 | 257 | -11 | -4 |
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| NFLX | Netflix Inc | 181 | 137 | 44 | 32 |
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| HD | Home Depot Inc | 171 | 154 | 17 | 11 |
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| C | Citigroup Inc | 159 | 175 | -16 | -9 |
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| GS | Goldman Sachs Group Inc | 142 | 132 | 10 | 8 |
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| WBA | Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc | 139 | 140 | -1 | -1 |
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| CVS | CVS Health Corp | 131 | 122 | 9 | 7 |
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| FDX | FedEx Corp | 118 | 111 | 7 | 6 |
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| UNH | UnitedHealth Group Inc | 115 | 97 | 18 | 19 |
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| BK | Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 104 | 124 | -20 | -16 |
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| USB | US Bancorp | 83 | 94 | -11 | -12 |
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| SBUX | Starbucks Corp | 72 | 67 | 5 | 7 |
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| SO | Southern Co | 71 | 74 | -3 | -4 |
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| LOW | Lowes Companies Inc | 43 | 35 | 8 | 23 |
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| BKNG | Booking Holdings Inc | 37 | 39 | -2 | -5 |
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| NEE | NextEra Energy Inc | 37 | 28 | 9 | 32 |
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| UNP | Union Pacific Corp | 23 | 25 | -2 | -8 |
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| AIG | American International Group Inc | 22 | 17 | 5 | 29 |
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| BLK | BlackRock Inc | 21 | 19 | 2 | 11 |
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| MET | MetLife Inc | 18 | 10 | 8 | 80 |
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| DUK | Duke Energy Corp | 14 | 12 | 2 | 17 |
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| EXC | Exelon Corp | 13 | 15 | -2 | -13 |
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| MCD | McDonalds Corp | 11 | 14 | -3 | -21 |
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| KMI | Kinder Morgan Inc | 9 | 7 | 2 | 29 |
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| AMT | American Tower Corp | 7 | 7 |
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| COST | Costco Wholesale Corp | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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| SPG | Simon Property Group Inc | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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