2012 Top 50 claims patent services, published on Jan.

10, 2013
Rank Patents granted 1 6,478 2 5,081 3 3,174 4 3,032 5 2,769 6 2,613 7 2,447 8 2,013 9 1,652 10 1,624 11 1,535 12 1,461 13 1,436 14 1,410 15 1,394 16 1,377 17 1,292 18 1,290 19 1,285 20 1,157 21 1,151 22 1,136 23 1,132 24 1,118 25 1,050 26 1,039 27 1,033 28 1,012 29 986 30 977 31 951 32 913 33 886 34 861 35 843 36 830 37 829 38 823 39 815 40 782 41 765 42 748 43 747 Company IBM Corp. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Canon Sony Corp. Panasonic Corp. Microsoft Corp. Toshiba Corp. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. General Electric Co. LG Electronics Inc. Fujitsu Ltd. Seiko Epson Corp. Hitachi Ltd. Ricoh Co Ltd. Hewlett-Packard Development Co. GM Global Technology Operations QUALCOMM Inc. Intel Corp. Toyota Jidosha Broadcom Corp. Google Inc. Apple Inc Honda Motor Co. Ltd. Sharp Xerox Corp. Renesas Electronics Corp. Fujifilm Corp. Brother Kogyo Research In Motion Ltd. Siemens Cisco Technology Inc. Micron Technology Inc. AT&T Intellectual Property I Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson Koninklijke Philips Electronics N V NL Texas Instruments Inc. NEC Corp. Honeywell International Inc. Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. Denso Corp. Robert Bosch SK Hynix Inc.

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Mitsubishi Denki Fuji Xerox C.o Ltd. The Boeing Co. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Alcatel-Lucent LG Display Co. Ltd.

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