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This statistic shows a ranking of companies according to how many patents had been assigned to them as of the end of 2016. IBM had 8,088 patents assigned to them at this time. IBM has held the first position in patent grants 24 years in a row. Patents grant exclusionary rights to an invention - a product or process that is a solution to a specific technological problem. They can be seen as an indicator of innovation, to track rates of technological change or progress, or monitor the health of research and development. Where specific patents are linked to businesses, they can occasionally be used as a barometer for judging the current or future direction of a business's interests.

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Number of patents in force in the U.S. 2004-2015

Number of patents in force in the U.S. 2004-2015

Percentage of patent applications in the U.S. 2015, by fields of technology

Percentage of patent applications in the U.S. 2015, by fields of technology

Number of plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by country of origin

Number of plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by country of origin

Number of patents granted to U.S. companies 2001-2015

Number of patents granted to U.S. companies 2001-2015

Number of patent grants in the U.S. 1990-2015

Number of patent grants in the U.S. 1990-2015

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Number of patent applications and grants in the United States in 2015, by typeNumber of patent applications and grants in the U.S. 2015, by type
Number of patent application filings in the United States from 1990 to 2015Number of patent application filings in the U.S. 1990-2015
Number of patent grants in the United States from 1990 to 2015Number of patent grants in the U.S. 1990-2015
Number of patents in force in the United States from 2004 to 2015Number of patents in force in the U.S. 2004-2015
Number of patents granted to U.S. companies from 2001 to 2015Number of patents granted to U.S. companies 2001-2015
Companies with the most U.S. patents granted to them as of 2016Companies with the most patents granted in 2016

Patents in detail

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Number of patent grants in the United States in 2015, by stateNumber of patent grants in the U.S. 2015, by state
Percentage of patent grants from foreign companies in the United States from 1990 to 2015Percentage of foreign patent grants in the U.S. 1990-2015
Percentage of patent applications in the United States between 2001 and 2015, by top fields of technologyPercentage of patent applications in the U.S. 2015, by fields of technology
Ranking of top patent applicating U.S. organizations via the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) in 2015, by number of applicationsRanking of U.S. companies with the most international patent applications 2015
Number of international patent applications of U.S. companies from 2001 to 2015, by treaty system usedNumber of international patent applications of U.S. companies 2001-2015
Number of independent inventors in the United States from 1998 to 2015Number of independent inventors in the U.S. 1998-2015

Utility patents

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Number of utility patent application filings in the United States from 1990 to 2015Number of utility patent application filings in the U.S. 1990-2015
Number of utility patent grants in the United States from 1990 to 2015Number of utility patent grants in the U.S. 1990-2015
Number of technology (utility) patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by ownershipNumber of technology patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by ownership
Number of technology (utility) patent grants in the United States as of 2015, by country of origin of applicantNumber of technology patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by country of origin

Industrial design

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Number of design patent application filings in the United States from 1990 to 2015Number of design patent application filings in the U.S. 1990-2015
Number of design patent grants in the United States from 1990 to 2015Number of design patent grants in the U.S. 1990-2015
Number of industrial design patent filings by U.S. companies from 2001-2015Number of industrial design patent filings by U.S. companies 2001-2015
Number of industrial design patent registrations by U.S. companies from 2001 to 2015Number of industrial design patent registrations by U.S. companies 2001-2015

Plant patents

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Number of plant patent application filings in the United States from 1990 to 2015Number of plant patent application filings in the U.S. 1990-2015
Number of plant patent grants in the United States from 1990 to 2015Number of plant patent grants in the U.S. 1990-2015
Number of plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by ownershipNumber of plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by ownership
Number of plant patent grants in the United States as of 2015, by country of origin of applicantNumber of plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by country of origin
Ranking of organizations with plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015, by number of patents heldRanking of organizations with plant patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015

Government involvement

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Number of statutory invention registrations and defensive publication grants in the United States from 2000 to 2014Statutory invention registrations and defensive publication grants in the U.S. 2014
Number of statutory invention registrations and defensive publications granted in the U.S. as of 2015, by ownershipStatutory invention registrations/defensive publication grants by the USPTO 2015
Ranking of organizations with statutory invention registrations and defensive publication patent grants in the U.S. as of 2015Ranking of organizations with defensive publications/SIR grants in the U.S. 2015
Number of patent applications stifled by U.S. Government secrecy orders from 2000 to 2016Number of patent applications stifled by U.S. Government secrecy orders 2000-2016

Patent litigations

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Top ten largest amounts of initial damages awarded in U.S. patent litigation cases between 1997 and 2016 (in million U.S. dollars)Top ten U.S. patent litigation cases by damages awarded 1997 to 2016
Share of patent litigation cases in the United States between 1997 and 2016, by industryShare of patent litigations in the U.S. 1997-2016, by industry
Patent holder median damages awarded in patent litigation cases in the United States between 1997 and 2016 (in million U.S. dollars)Patent holder median damages awarded in U.S. patent litigation cases 1997-2016
Number of patent infringement investigations instituted in the United States from FY 2006 to 2017, as of July 2017Number of patent infringement investigations instituted in the U.S. 2006-2017
Percentage of patent infringement investigations in the United States in 2015 and 2016, by accused product typePercentage of accused products in U.S. patent infringement investigations , by type

Patent holders

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Top 20 buyers of U.S. granted patents and applications in 2015Companies who purchased the most U.S. patents and applications in 2015
Top 20 patent law firms by number of U.S. granted patents issued in 2015Intellectual property law firms with most patents issued in the U.S. in 2015
Top university owners of U.S. granted patents in 2015Top university patentees of United States issued patents in 2015
Top 20 inventors with the highest number of U.S. patents granted in 2015Inventors with most patents issued in the U.S. in 2015
Rate of abandonment of U.S. patents up for renewal from 2005 to 2015Maintenance rate of U.S. patents up for renewal 2005 to 2015

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