| Table 6-3 |
| Top patenting corporations: 1977–96
and 2001 |
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| Company |
Patents |
|
| 1977–96 |
|
| General Electric Corp. |
16,206 |
| International Business Machines Corp. |
15,205 |
| Hitachi Ltd. |
14,500 |
| Canon Kabushiki Kaisha |
13,797 |
| Toshiba Corp. |
13,413 |
| Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha |
10,192 |
| U.S. Philips Corp. |
9,943 |
| Eastman Kodak Co. |
9,729 |
| AT&T; Corp. |
9,380 |
| Motorola, Inc. |
9,143 |
| 2001 |
|
| International Business Machines Corp. |
3,411 |
| NEC Corp. |
1,953 |
| Canon Kabushiki Kaisha |
1,877 |
| Micron Technology, Inc. |
1,643 |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. |
1,450 |
| Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.,
Ltd. |
1,440 |
| Sony Corp. |
1,409 |
| Hitachi Ltd. |
1,271 |
| Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha |
1,184 |
| Fujitsu Ltd. |
1,166 |
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| SOURCE: U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, Information Products Division, Technology Assessment and Forecast
Branch, special tabulations, November 2002. |
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| Science & Engineering Indicators
— 2004 |
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