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Blackberry Limited
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Blackberry Limited
— 5,885 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#133
of
105,732
Top 1%
2,554
inventors
5,885
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 2013 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 1,391 patents in 2014.
peak 1,391
2013: 558 patents
2013
2014: 1,391 patents
2015: 1,084 patents
2015
2016: 791 patents
2017: 518 patents
2017
2018: 344 patents
2019: 325 patents
2019
2020: 260 patents
2021: 216 patents
2021
2022: 131 patents
2023: 128 patents
2023
2024: 88 patents
2025: 51 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Blackberry Limited
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
2,554
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Zhijun Cai
342
2
Neil Patrick Adams
230
3
Jason T. Griffin
220
#4
Herbert A. Little
188
#5
Michael Peter Montemurro
178
#6
Stephen McCann
145
#7
Adrian Buckley
144
#7
Michael S. Brown
144
#9
Mo-Han Fong
112
#10
Michael K. Brown
111
#11
Mihal Lazaridis
109
#12
Takashi Suzuki
104
#13
David Philip Hole
102
#14
Yi Yu
98
#15
Steven Henry Fyke
95
#15
Youn Hyoung Heo
95
#17
James Earl Womack
94
#18
Andrew Mark Earnshaw
92
#18
Yi Song
92
#20
Chandra Sekhar Bontu
91
#20
Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker
91
#22
Jerome Pasquero
90
#23
Hua Xu
89
#24
Gerhard Dietrich Klassen
86
#25
Dake He
83
#26
Andrew Allen
78
#27
David Yach
77
#28
Andrew Bocking
75
#29
Sherryl Lee Lorraine Scott
68
#30
Michael G. Kirkup
67
#30
Richard Charles Burbidge
67
#30
Robert Novak
67
#33
Muhammad Khaledul Islam
65
#33
Stephen John Barrett
65
#35
Gordon Peter Young
63
#35
Shiwei Gao
63
#37
David Ryan Walker
62
#38
Vadim Fux
60
#38
Yufei Blankenship
60
#40
Johanna Lisa Dwyer
58
#41
Christopher Lyle Bender
55
#41
Rene Faurie
55
#43
Nazih Almalki
53
#44
Jun Li
52
#45
Eswar Vutukuri
51
#45
Sean Michael McBeath
51
#47
Biswaroop Mukherjee
50
#48
Lizhong Zhu
48
#49
Jean-Philippe Paul Cormier
46
#49
Nicholas James Russell
46
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