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US Patent League Table
The US Patent and Trademark Office issued its top ten private sector patent recipient table for 2002. Preliminary counts give IBM top billing (as in 2001) with 3288 patents.
The US Patent and Trademark Office issued its top ten private sector patent recipient table for 2002. Preliminary counts give IBM top billing (as in 2001) with 3288 patents.
Japan's Canon came second with 1893. US DRAM producer Micron Technology came third with 1833. The list is completed by US and Japanese companies in order by NEC (1821), Hitachi (1602), Matsushita Electric Industrial (1544), Sony (1434), General Electric (1416), Hewlett-Packard (1385) and Mitsubishi (1373).
HP's portfolio includes patents from the Compaq merger - 159 from Compaq Computer and 165 from Compaq Information Technologies Group.
