Patents Rank 556 24 Advantest Corp. / A.G. AT&T Corp. / Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd. / Westinghouse Air Brake Co. / Cornell Research Foundation Inc. / Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. / Ebara Corp. / Sci-Med Life Systems Inc. / Tektronix Inc. / Ericsson Inc. / Amoco Corp. / Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd / Becton Dickinson and Co. / Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd. / Digital Equipment Corp. / Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd. / K.K. 116 130 Ajinomoto Co. Inc. / Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. / Monsanto Co. / Polaroid Corp. / Rohm and Haas Co. / Northern Telecom Ltd. / Hughes Electronics Corp. / L.M. Ericsson Tetra Laval Holdings / General Hospital Corp. / Petrole 218 56 142 98 Hyundai Motor Co. Ltd. / Shin-Etsu Handotai Co. Ltd. / Novartis Corp. / Technology Canon K.K. Carrier Corp. / Medtronic Inc. / Matsushita Electronics Corp. / Unisia Jecs Corp. / Novo Nordisk A/S / MITA Industrial Co. Ltd. / Pfizer Inc. / Goodyear Tire / Alps Electric Co. Ltd. / Applied Materials Inc. / G. 626 19 Silicon Graphics Inc. / Lucas Industries Public Ltd. / General Electric Co. / Nestec S.A. / L'Oreal S.A. / Oracle Corp. / Konica Corp. / Shin Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. / Integrated Device Technology Inc. / Seiko Instruments Inc. / British Telecommunication PLC / Astra / Lever Bros / VLSI Technology Inc. / IBM Corp. Illinois / Pacesetter Inc. / Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. / Daimler-Benz A.G. Eastman Chemical Corp. / Cordis Corp. / Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. / Aisin AW Co. Ltd. / SmithKline Beecham Corp. / Lexmark International Inc. / Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. / Merck & Co. Inc. / United Technologies Corp. / PPG Industries Inc. / Procter and Gamble Co. / Daewoo Electronics Co. Ltd. / Rhone-Poulenc Chimie 80 192 Ricoh Co. Ltd. / Eli Lilly and Co. / Robert Bosch GmbH / Yamaha Corp. / Olympus Optical Co. Ltd. / NSK Ltd. / Otis Elevator Company 86 176 Owens-Corning Fiberglass Technology Inc. / Hoechst A.G. Hoechst Celanese Corp. / SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.A. / Cypress Semiconductor Corp. / K. 560 23 Shell Oil Co. / Zeneca Ltd. / Schering Corp. / Halliburton Energy Services 75 208 Harris Corp. / Baker Hughes Inc. / LG Electronics Inc. / Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc. / Boehringer Mannheim GmbH / OKI Electric Industry Co. Ltd. / Organization Advanced Micro Devices Inc. / Rohm Co. Ltd. / Berg Technology Inc. / Litton Systems Inc. / Kawasaki Steel Corp. / Molex Inc. / G.D. Searle & Co. / Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. / United Techologies Automotive Inc. / Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. / Rubber Co. / Shimano Inc. / Warner-Lambert Co. / Intel Corp. / Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. / A.G. 63 252 Delco Electronics Corp. / Sun Microsystems Inc. / Lockheed Martin Corp. / Xilinx Inc. / Technology Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. / University Research Foundation Johns Hopkins University KAO Corp. / Dow Chemical Co. / Avery Dennison Corp. / Mazda Motor Corp. / Aluminum Company of America / Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. / Tokyo Electron Ltd. / Union Carbide Corp. / Allied-Signal Inc. / McDonnell Douglas Corp. / Corning Inc. / Fanuc Ltd. / Lg Semicon Co. Ltd. / Hitachi Ltd. / Apple Computer Inc. / Nokia Telecommunications OY / Cirrus Logic Inc. / Nikon Corp. Nippon / Arco Chemical Technology L.P. / Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. / G. 53 300 Hughes Electronic Devices Corp. / Casio Computer Co. Ltd. / Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH / Nobel N.V. / NEC Corp. / Sony Corp. / Japan Ltd. / United States Surgical Corp. / Valeo S.A. / Trustees Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. / Kobe Steel Ltd. / Daicel Chemical Industries Ltd. / Chrysler Motors Corp. / Nokia Mobile Phones (U.K.) Ltd. / Exxon Chemicals Patents Inc. / Colgate-Palmolive Co. / Fuji Photo Optical Co. Ltd. / Dell USA L.P. / Motorola Inc. / Ford Motor Co. / Caterpillar Inc. / Nippondenso Co. Ltd. / Bridgestone Corp. / Symbol Technologies Inc. / TDK Corp. / Chiron Corp. Columbia / EMC Corp. / Industrielle Aerospatiale 61 264 1316 5 Southpac Trust International Inc. / Qualcomm Inc. / Analog Devices Inc. / Engineering Co. / Lear Corp. / Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp. / Baxter International Inc. / A.G. 399 31 BASF Corp. / Pioneer Electronic Corp. / E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. / Morton International Inc. / Minolta Camera Co. Ltd. / Toyota / France Telecom 63 254 Fuji Electric Co. Ltd. / American Cyanamid Co. / W.R. Grace & Co. / Bridgestone Sports Co. Ltd. / CIBA Specialty Chemicals Corp. / TRW Inc. / Telecommunications Research Elf Atochem S.A. / Conopco Inc. / Hewlett-Packard Co. / MCI Communications Corp. / Komatsu Ltd. / Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. / Microsoft Corp. / National Science Council National Semiconductor Corp. / Phillips Petroleum Co. / Unisys Corp. / Electronic Data Systems Corp. / Philips Electronics North America Corp. / Michigan State University 59 274 Micron Technology Inc. / Honeywell Inc. / Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd. / Siemens / Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. / Samsung Display Devices Co. Ltd. / United Microelectronics Corp. / Mobil Oil Corp. / Sumitomo Electric Industries Co. Ltd. / Rockwell International Corp. / Bayer / Praxair Technoogy Inc. / Northrop Grumman Corp. / Imperial Chemical Industries PLC / A.G. 381 36 Bayer Corp. / A.G. 129 108 Henkel Corp. / Research Corporation Technologies Inc. / Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus GmbH / Denso Corp. / Jidosha K.K. Trimble Navigation Ltd. / Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. / Quantum Corp. / A.G. 74 213 FMC Corp. / Gas Research Institute 62 257 Genentech Inc. / Eaton Corp. / Pitney-Bowes Inc. / Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. / Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation 83 183 Xerox Corp. / Ethicon Inc. / Deere and Co. / K. 58 281 Mitsui Petrochemical Industries Ltd. / NCR Corp. / W.L. Gore Associates Inc. / Emerson Electric Co. / Dow Corning Corp. / Boeing Co. / Seagate Technology 163 85 Seiko Epson Corp. / Yazaki Corp. / Daikin Industries Ltd. / Incyte Pharmaceuticals Inc. / SGS-Thompson Microelectronics Inc. / Black & Decker Inc. / Fujitsu Ltd. / Raytheon Co. / General Motors Corp. / Omron Corp. / Toshiba Corp. / Winbond Electronics Corp. / Technology 71 221 Agfa-Gevaert N.V. / Merck Patent GmbH / Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. / Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd. / Noritsu Koki Co. Ltd. / U.S. Philips Corp. / Dana Corp. / BASF / Honda Motor Co. Ltd. / /
Country
United States / /
Event
Debt Financing / Patent Issuance / /
Facility
Stanford University / University Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique / University of California Whitaker Corp. / Inc. Lucent Technologies Inc. Massachusettes Institute of Technology Matsushita Electric Industrial / PLC Brother Kogyo K.K. California Institute / University of Texas / Scripps Research Institute / Industrial Technology Research Institute / University of Pennsylvania / /
Organization
Iowa State University / University of Pennsylvania / U.S. Patent & Trademark Office / Agency of Industrial Science & Technology / Johns Hopkins University / Scripps Research Institute / Gas Research Institute / Columbia University / U.S. Government / Inc. Lucent Technologies Inc. Massachusettes Institute / Industrial Technology Research Institute / University of Texas / California Institute of Technology / Michigan State University / Cornell / Division of Conopco / Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation / PLC Brother Kogyo K.K. California Institute / Stanford University / Taiwan Institut Francias / University of California Whitaker Corp. / /
IPO Statistical Series, [removed]No. 2 Top 300 Organizations Receiving U.S. Patents in 1998 Alphabetical by Company Name Organization