Asian Tech Companies Lead List of Top U.S. Patents Granted in '99 Reports MicroPatent, LLC.EAST HAVEN East Haven, town (1990 pop. 26,144), New Haven co., S Conn., on Long Island Sound, a residential suburb of New Haven, in a farm area; inc. 1785. Light industry, distribution and warehousing, electronics, and insurance and investment firms are important. , Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1999-- The race to make the greatest, fastest, cheapest, smallest, lightest and coolest telephones, computers, cameras and other high tech items is evident from a look at the list of the top 10 companies to receive the most patents in the first half of 1999 reports MicroPatent, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , the leading provider of patent and trademark information on the Internet. Headed by International Business Machines Corporation (IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) ) with 1,248 patents, the list continues to be dominated by Asian companies, who make up 8 of the top 10. "These companies understand that it is critical to protect their ideas in the United States and to aggressively pursue R&D initiatives," comments Lynn Tellefsen, Marketing Director for MicroPatent. -0-
Rank Company No. Patents
1 IBM 1,248
2 Canon 772
3 NEC 753
4 Sony 725
5 Motorola 567
6 Samsung 562
7 Fujitsu 508
8 Toshiba 504
9 Mitsubishi 476
10 Matsushita 438
MicroPatent is a subsidiary of Information Holdings, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IHI IHI Institute for Healthcare Improvement (Boston, MA, USA) IHI Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (Japan, ship building, aerospace & others) IHI Institute of History IHI I'd Hit It ), and is a leading publisher of patent and trademark information on CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). and via the Internet at http://www.micropat.com. The company supplies more than 6,000 corporate, legal and government subscribers worldwide with CD-ROM and on-line products including full text of patents; complete patent documents, including drawings, abstracts; and trademark text and images. |
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