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Top 45 patent recipients in the US in 2005

Intellectual Property Owners Association published a list of top patent recipients in the US for 2005. The top 45 patent recipients in 2005 are: International Business Machines Corp.
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Intellectual Property Owners Association published a list of top patent recipients in the US for 2005. The top 45 patent recipients in 2005 are:

 

  1. International Business Machines Corp. - 2941
  2. Hitachi, Ltd. - 1918
  3. Canon K.K. - 1875
  4. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. - 1813
  5. Hewlett-Packard Co. - 1808
  6. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - 1641
  7. Micron Technology, Inc. - 1561
  8. Intel Corp. - 1549
  9. Siemens A.G. - 1345
  10. Toshiba Corp. - 1338
  11. Sony Corp. - 1234
  12. General Electric Co. - 1206
  13. Fujitsu Ltd. - 1154
  14. Seiko Epson Corp. - 884
  15. Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V. - 794
  16. Infineon Technologies A.G. - 787
  17. Robert Bosch GmbH - 756
  18. Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. - 750
  19. Microsoft Corp. - 750
  20. Texas Instruments, Inc. - 734
  21. Sun Microsystems Inc. - 715
  22. Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - 698
  23. Eastman Kodak Co. - 694
  24. NEC Corp. - 661
  25. Mitsubishi Denki K.K. - 612
  26. Denso Corp. - 609
  27. Renesas Technology Corp. - 606
  28. Agilent Technologies - 562
  29. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - 526
  30. Motorola - 511
  31. Honeywell International Inc. - 500
  32. Nokia Corp. - 496
  33. Sharp Corp. - 473
  34. Ricoh Co., Ltd. - 469
  35. LG Electronics Inc. - 463 - 3M Co. - 443
  36. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. - 441
  37. Cisco Technology, Inc. - 440
  38. Xerox Corp. - 426
  39. Broadcom Corp. - 414
  40. Delphi Technologies, Inc. - 405
  41. Lucent Technologies Inc. - 405
  42. Boeing Co. - 403
  43. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. - 400
  44. General Motors Corp. - 392
  45. Pfizer Inc. - 389

 

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