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Syntex (U.S.A.)
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Syntex (U.S.A.)
— 774 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#1,111
of
105,732
Top 2%
599
inventors
774
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2007
Bar chart with a peak of 60 patents in 1986.
peak 60
1980: 20 patents
1980
1981: 29 patents
1982: 35 patents
1983: 31 patents
1983
1984: 24 patents
1985: 41 patents
1986: 60 patents
1986
1987: 43 patents
1988: 43 patents
1989: 44 patents
1989
1990: 37 patents
1991: 29 patents
1992: 38 patents
1992
1993: 37 patents
1994: 15 patents
1995: 33 patents
1995
1996: 23 patents
1997: 13 patents
1998: 23 patents
1998
1999: 22 patents
2000: 17 patents
2001: 19 patents
2001
2002: 25 patents
2003: 21 patents
2004: 19 patents
2004
2005: 18 patents
2006: 14 patents
2007: 1 patents
2007
Top Inventors at Syntex (U.S.A.)
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
599
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Edwin F. Ullman
65
2
Robin Clark
49
3
Joseph M. Muchowski
41
#4
John J. Nestor
36
#5
Keith A. M. Walker
32
#6
Brian H. Vickery
28
#7
Peter H. Nelson
27
#8
Eric Brian Sjogren
26
#9
Gordon H. Jones
23
#9
Michael C. Venuti
23
#11
Anthony C. Allison
21
#11
Lawrence Emerson Fisher
21
#11
Pyare Khanna
21
#14
Denis John Kertesz
19
#14
Jurg R. Pfister
19
#14
Robert Greenhouse
19
#17
Arthur F. Kluge
17
#17
Francisco Xavier Talamas
17
#17
Robert James Weikert
17
#20
Arlindo L. Castelhano
15
#20
Cheng-I Lin
15
#20
Counde O'Yang
15
#20
David Michael Goldstein
15
#20
Elsie M. Eugui
15
#20
Gary F. Cooper
15
#20
Jacob Berger
15
#27
Colin C. Beard
14
#27
Deborah A. Eppstein
14
#29
Douglas L. Wren
13
#29
John M. Young
13
#29
Julien P. H. Verheyden
13
#29
L. David Waterbury
13
#33
Chris Allen Broka
12
#33
Charles Alois Dvorak
12
#33
David Garrett Loughhead
12
#33
David J. Morgans, Jr.
12
#33
Humberto B. Arzeno
12
#33
James Patrick Dunn
12
#33
Jeffrey Allen Campbell
12
#33
John C. Martin
12
#33
Lee A. Flippin
12
#33
Randall N. Bartlett
12
#33
Robert Case
12
#33
Robert Stephen Wilhelm
12
#33
Thomas L. Tarnowski
12
#33
William A. Lee
12
#47
Alexander Krantz
11
#47
Chee-Liang L. Gu
11
#47
David B. Smith
11
#47
Jian Chen
11
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