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Alcatel N.V.
— 713 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#1,204
of
105,732
Top 2%
816
inventors
713
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2008
Bar chart with a peak of 93 patents in 1994.
peak 93
1987: 8 patents
1987
1988: 29 patents
1989: 39 patents
1989
1990: 39 patents
1991: 29 patents
1991
1992: 52 patents
1993: 66 patents
1993
1994: 93 patents
1995: 69 patents
1995
1996: 82 patents
1997: 65 patents
1997
1998: 90 patents
1999: 38 patents
1999
2000: 7 patents
2001: 3 patents
2001
2002: 2 patents
2003: 1 patents
2003
2008: 1 patents
2008
Top Inventors at Alcatel N.V.
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
816
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Rolf Heidemann
25
2
Joannes Mathilda Josephus Sevenhans
14
3
Jean-Michel Gabriagues
13
#4
Dieter Kopp
12
#5
Michel Henrion
11
#5
Michel Sotom
11
#7
Klaus Wunstel
10
#7
Michael Schilling
10
#7
Peter Kersten
10
#7
Peter Paul Frans Reusens
10
#7
Willem J. A. Verbiest
10
#12
Gert Van der Plas
9
#12
Heinz Krimmel
9
#14
Christophe Mourot
8
#14
Denis J. G. Mestdagh
8
#14
Karl Schrodi
8
#17
Albrecht Mozer
7
#17
Bart Joseph Gerard Pauwels
7
#17
Henning Bulow
7
#17
Henri A. J. Verhille
7
#17
Jose Chesnoy
7
#17
Olaf Hildebrand
7
#17
Thomas Pfeiffer
7
#24
Bart F. Voeten
6
#24
Christiaan H. J. Sierens
6
#24
Dieter Baums
6
#24
Francesco Masetti
6
#24
Frank Van Der Putten
6
#24
Gert Eilenberger
6
#24
Guido Henri Marguerite Petit
6
#24
Johannes A. M. van Tetering
6
#24
Michael Walker
6
#24
Olivier Audouin
6
#24
Pierre Dupuy
6
#24
Vinod Kumar
6
#24
Wilfried Idler
6
#37
Bernhard Junginger
5
#37
Berthold Wedding
5
#37
Bernd Weis
5
#37
Bodo Pfeiffer
5
#37
Claude Artigue
5
#37
Claude Brehm
5
#37
Daniel Sallaerts
5
#37
Denis Leclerc
5
#37
Didier R. Haspeslagh
5
#37
Frank Bergler
5
#37
Frank L. Denissen
5
#37
Friedemann Mohr
5
#37
Francis Poingt
5
#37
Gerd Siegmund
5
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