IPO Releases List of Top 300 Patent Holders for 2012

Earlier today, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) announced the release of its 30th annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. patents.  Patent Docs Readers may recall that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office stopped releasing its annual list of top patent recipients in 2006 in order to "discourag[e] any perception that we believe more is better." The IPO compiled its list by counting the number of utility patents granted during 2012 that listed an organization or a subsidiary as the owner on the printed patent.  The IPO noted that if an assignment to an organization or its subsidiary was recorded after the patent was printed, the patent was not counted, and further, that patents that were granted to two or more organizations jointly were attributed to the organization listed first on the patent.  The IPO also noted that 253,155 patents were issued in 2012, which was an increase from the 224,505 patents that issued in 2011.

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