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Top Companies
2003
Ranked by patent count
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18,594
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Rank
Company
Patents
1
IBM
3,455
2
Fujitsu Limited
2,199
3
Sumitomo Electric Industries
2,177
#4
Canon
2,081
#5
Hitachi
1,942
#6
Micron
1,739
#7
Sony
1,716
#8
Intel
1,714
#9
Unknown
1,691
#10
Samsung
1,584
#11
Mitsubishi Electric
1,537
#12
Philips
1,423
#13
GE
1,401
#14
HP
1,329
#15
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
1,287
#16
Nec
1,217
#17
AMD
1,148
#18
AT&T
884
#19
Seiko Epson
809
#20
Robert Bosch Gmbh
787
#21
Texas Instruments
780
#22
Eastman Kodak
756
#23
Honda Motor Co.
730
#24
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
684
#25
Motorola
676
#26
Oracle
672
#27
Infineon Technologies Ag
663
#28
Xerox
654
#29
Delphi Technologies
645
#30
3M
620
#31
Denso
585
#32
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
554
#33
Applied Materials
540
#34
Microsoft
525
#35
The Procter & Gamble
486
#36
Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co.
483
#37
Ericsson
470
#38
University of California
469
#39
LG
460
#40
Basf Se
451
#41
Murata Manufacturing Co.
446
#43
Nortel Networks Limited
438
#44
US Air Force
433
#45
TSMC
431
#46
Honeywell
425
#47
Bayer Healthcare
424
#48
Ricoh Company
421
#49
Kimberly-Clark Worldwide
417
#50
Ford
406
#51
Seagate Technology
406
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