[pi france] IBM reste le premier déposant au USA

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>]

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            PRESS RELEASE
            Contact: 
            Brigid Quinn
            703-305-8341 
            brigid.quinn@uspto.gov
           January 13, 2003
            #03-01
           
     

      USPTO RELEASES ANNUAL LIST OF TOP 10 ORGANIZATIONS
      RECEIVING MOST U.S. PATENTS
      American Innovation Leads the Field

      The Department of Commerce's United States Patent and Trademark Office 
(USPTO) announced the 2002 top 10 private sector patent recipients today. 
Listed below are the 10 corporations receiving the most patents for 
inventions in 2002, along with their 2001 ranking. For the tenth consecutive 
year, IBM received more patents than any other private sector organization. 

      In 2002, four U.S. corporations are included on the list of top ten 
patenting organizations, up from two in 2001. "American corporations continue 
to build America's technological strength worldwide," said James E. Rogan, 
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property. "Patents promote 
technological progress and stimulate economic growth and investment in 
commerce, creating jobs for millions of Americans." 


        Top 10 Private Sector Patent Recipients for the 2002 Calendar Year  
Preliminary
            Rank in 2002* Preliminary
            # Patents in 2002* Organization*  (Final Rank 
            in 2001)  (Final Number of Patents in 2001) 
            1 3,288 International Business Machines Corporation (1) (3,411) 
            2 1,893 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (3) (1,877) 
            3 1,833 Micron Technology, Inc. (4) (1,643) 
            4 1,821 NEC Corporation  (2) (1,953) 
            5 1,602 Hitachi, Ltd (8) (1,271) 
            6 1,544 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.  (6) (1,440) 
            7 1,434 Sony Corporation (7) (1,363) 
            8 1,416 General Electric Company (13) (1,107) 
            9 1,385 Hewlett-Packard Company ** (15) (978) 
            10 1,373 Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (9) (1,184) 

      *The listed patent counts are preliminary counts. Final patent counts 
should be available in April 2003. Patent information reflects patent 
ownership at the time of patent grant and does not include ownership changes 
that occur after the patent grant. Where more than one assignee (owner) 
exists, patents are attributed to the first-named assignee.

      ** Calendar year counts for 2002 for Hewlett-Packard Company include 
159 patents issued to Compaq Computer Corporation, Inc. and 165 patents 
issued to Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P. 

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From: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/speeches/03-01.htm

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