Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2008

Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2008 IPO DOES NOT INTEND TO ENCOURAGE MORE PATENTING IN U.S. This annual report listing the organizations that received the most U.S. utility patents is being published by IPO for the 26th consecutive year. It is based on data obtained from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Patents granted to parent and subsidiary companies are consolidated in some instances. See the end notes for background on how the report was prepared. IPO does not intend for this report to encourage or discourage patenting. The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced two years ago that it would no longer publish its own report on organizations receiving the most patents, because it wanted to discourage any perception that we believe more is better. IPO has opted to continue publishing this IPO report, however, because the number of patents granted is one of the few objective measures of the patent system as a whole and the patenting activities of individual industries and companies. IPO and others are studying ways to develop more reliable measures of patent quality. May 21, 2009 Copyright 2009 Intellectual Property Owners Association

Top 300 Patent Owners - 2008 1 Numerical Listing Rank Organization Patents Rank Organization Patents 1 International Business Machines Corp. 2 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 3 Hitachi, Ltd. 4 Canon K.K. 5 Microsoft Corp. 6 Intel Corp. 7 Panasonic Corp. 8 Toshiba Corp. 9 Fujitsu Ltd. 10 Sony Corp. 11 Hewlett-Packard Co. 12 Siemens AG 13 Micron Technology, Inc. 14 General Electric Co. 15 Seiko Epson Corp. 16 Fujifilm Corp. 17 Ricoh Co., Ltd. 18 AT&T 19 Infineon Technologies AG 20 LG Electronics Inc. 21 Honeywell International Inc. 22 Texas Instruments, Inc. 23 Cisco Technology, Inc. 24 Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 25 Denso Corp. 26 Broadcom Corp. 27 Nokia Corp. 28 Silverbrook Research Pty. Ltd. 29 Xerox Corp. 30 Sharp Corp. 31 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. 32 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 33 Motorola, Inc. 34 NEC Corp. 35 General Motors Corp. 36 DuPont 37 Renesas Technology Corp. 38 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd. 39 Mitsubishi Denki K.K. 40 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. 41 Brother Kogyo K.K. 42 Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. 43 Hynix Semiconductor Inc. 44 Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. 4,1 3,502 2,197 2,153 2,043 1,7 1,7 1,5 1,4 1,461 1,422 1,288 1,277 1,243 1,219 8 851 820 809 805 7 7 4 3 6 3 8 8 6 585 584 543 543 527 510 501 500 498 481 468 462 446 435 432 45 Boeing Co. 421 46 Robert Bosch GmbH 416 47 3M Innovative Properties Co. 408 48 Lucent Technologies Inc. 405 49 Johnson & Johnson 405 50 Toyota Jidosha K.K. 387 51 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 365 52 Boston Scientific Corp. 358 53 STMicroelectronics, Inc. 349 54 Ford Global Technologies, LLC 336 United Technologies Corp. 333 Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. 332 57 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. 322 58 TDK Corp. 322 59 Eastman Kodak Co. 320 Applied Materials, Inc. 314 61 Delphi Technologies, Inc. 311 62 Qualcomm, Inc. 309 Alcatel-Lucent 293 Medtronic Inc. 287 65 Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan 286 Olympus Corp. 285 Agilent Technologies, Inc. 2 68 LG Display Co., Ltd. 2 Nortel Networks Ltd. 2 ASML Netherlands B.V. 271 71 Procter & Gamble Co. 271 NEC Electronics Corp. 2 Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson 2 Schlumberger Technology Corp. 259 Altera Corp. 257 76 Exxon Mobil Corp. 2 77 Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute 254 LG Philips LCD Co., Ltd. 250 LSI Logic Corp. 248 80 SAP AG 246 81 Tokyo Electron Ltd. 246 82 Seagate Technology, LLC 245 83 Xilinx, Inc. 243 84 University of California, The Regents of 237 85 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. 236 86 Illinois Tool Works Inc. 233 87 OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd. 232

2 Top 300 Patent Owners - 2008 Numerical Listing Rank Organization Patents Rank Organization Patents 88 Genentech, Inc. 226 134 Corning Inc. 89 United States of America, Navy 224 135 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. 142 90 Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. 222 136 Avago Technologies (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 141 91 Research In Motion Ltd. 220 137 Pfizer Inc. 141 92 BASF AG 214 138 Wyeth 137 93 SanDisk Corp. 211 139 Macronix International Co., Ltd. 136 94 Lockheed Martin Corp. 208 140 Interdigital Technology Corp. 135 95 Oracle International Corp. 201 141 Shell Oil Co. 135 96 Thomson Licensing S.A. 201 142 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 134 97 Baker Hughes Inc. 197 143 ADC Telecommunications, Inc. 131 98 Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., 196 Inventec Corp. 131 Ltd. 145 United States of America, Army 129 99 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 194 146 NGK Insulators Ltd. 125 100 Dongbu Electronics Co., Ltd. 194 147 International Game Technology (IGT) 124 101 Yamaha Corp. 193 148 Raytheon Co. 123 EMC Corp. 192 149 Analog Devices, Inc. 122 103 NXP B.V. 192 150 Sprint Communications Co., L.P. 122 104 National Semiconductor Corp. 191 151 Stanford University 120 105 Caterpillar Inc. 187 152 United Microelectronics Corp. 120 106 Apple, Inc. 185 153 Eaton Corp. 119 107 AU Optronics Corp. 183 154 Hoya Corp. 114 108 Agere Systems Inc. 181 1 Northrop Grumman Corp. 114 109 Marvell International Ltd. 1 1 Network Appliance, Inc. 112 110 Nvidia Corp. 1 157 Advantest Corp. 110 111 GlaxoSmithKline 171 158 United States of America, Health & Human 109 112 Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. 1 Services 113 Monsanto Co. 1 159 Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. 107 114 Mediatek Inc. 1 1 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. 106 115 Yazaki Corp. 1 161 Hyundai Motor Co. 104 116 VIA Technologies, Inc. 1 162 Air Liquide Corp. 104 117 Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 161 1 Nitto Denko Corp. 103 118 Dell Products, L.P. 159 1 Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. 119 Black & Decker Inc. 159 165 Japan Science and Technology Agency 120 Pioneer Corp. 158 1 Kyocera Mita Corp. 121 Nikon Corp. 157 1 Sanofi-Aventis 122 Rohm Co., Ltd. 1 168 Yamaha Hatsudoki K.K., Yamaha Motor 101 123 NTT Docomo, Inc. 152 Co., Ltd. 124 Deere & Co. 152 1 AstraZeneca AB 100 125 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 147 1 Merck Patent GmbH 100 126 Lexmark International, Inc. 147 171 Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG 99 127 Funai Electric Co., Ltd. 146 1 Commissariat a l'energie Atomique 98 128 Alps Electric Co., Ltd. 145 1 Verizon 98 129 Sumitomo Electric Industries Co., Ltd. 145 1 Daimler AG 97 130 Merck & Co., Inc. 145 1 Elpida Memory, Inc. 97 131 Finisar Corp. 176 KLA-Tencor Technologies Corp. 97 132 L'Oreal S.A. 177 California Institute of Technology 96 133 Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. 1 Tyco Electronics Corp. 96 Intellectual Property Owners Association

Top 300 Patent Owners - 2008 3 Numerical Listing Numerical Listing Rank Organization Patents Rank Organization Patents 1 Aisin Seiki K.K. 180 Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. 181 Casio Computer Co. Ltd. 182 Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. 183 Harris Corp. 184 Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. 185 Shin Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. 186 NSK Ltd. 187 Silicon Laboratories Inc. 188 Rohm and Haas Co. 189 Delta Electronics Inc. 190 International Rectifier Corp. 191 Spansion LLC 192 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation 193 Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. 194 Unisys Corp. 195 Fu Zhun Precision Industrial Co., Ltd. 196 AOL LLC 197 Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. 198 Adobe Systems, Inc. 199 Rolls-Royce PLC 200 Symantec Operating Corp. 201 Pacesetter, Inc. 202 Takata Corp. 203 Omron Corp. 204 Dow Chemical Co. 205 CNH America LLC 206 Juniper Networks, Inc. 207 Pitney-Bowes, Inc. 208 Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. 209 Acushnet Co. 210 Fujinon Corp. 211 PPG Industries Ohio Inc. 212 University of Texas 213 Atmel Corp. 214 BEA Systems, Inc. 215 Kao Corp. 216 Toyoda Gosei K.K. 217 Weatherford/Lamb, Inc. 218 Avaya Technology Corp. 219 NCR Corp. 220 Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. 221 LG Chemical Ltd. 222 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. 223 Sandia Corp. 224 Bridgestone Corp. 225 Carl Zeiss SMT AG 94 226 Institut Francais du Petrole 94 227 Kyocera Corp. 93 228 LAM Research Corp. 92 229 Lenovo Pte. Ltd. 92 230 Bayerische Motoren Werke AG 92 231 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research 92 232 Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. 91 233 Schering Corp. 91 234 Headway Technologies, Inc. 91 235 Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 90 236 Shimano Inc. 90 237 Thales 90 238 Allergan, Inc. 71 90 239 Accenture 71 90 240 Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. 89 241 Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd. 88 242 Fanuc Ltd. 87 243 Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A. 87 244 Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB 86 245 Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. 86 246 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 86 247 Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp. 85 248 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der 85 Angewandten Forschung E.V. 84 249 Rambus, Inc. 82 250 Sprint Spectrum L.P. 81 251 Konica Minolta Opto, Inc. 68 81 252 Seiko Instruments Inc. 68 80 253 Abbott Laboratories 80 254 Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. 2 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 2 Yahoo, Inc. 257 ARM Ltd. 258 Cree, Inc. 259 Johns Hopkins University 2 Okidata Corp. 261 United States of America, National Aeronautics and Space Administration 262 University of Michigan 2 Alstom Technology Ltd. 65 2 HRL Laboratories, LLC 65 77 265 Lear Corp. 65 2 Ajinomoto Co. Inc. 2 American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. 268 Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd. 2 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 2 Symantec Corp.

4 Numerical Listing Top 300 Patent Owners - 2008 Numerical Listing Rank Organization Patents 271 Applera Corp. 2 Callaway Golf Co. 2 Eli Lilly and Co. 2 FCI Americas Technology, Inc. 2 Rockwell Collins, Inc. 276 Societe Nationale d'etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'aviation 277 Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. 2 Smith International Inc. 2 Whirlpool Corp. 280 Novartis AG 281 Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. 282 Jtekt Corp. 283 Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. 284 Synopsys Inc. 285 Unilever 286 Chrysler LLC 287 Eastman Chemical Co. 288 Amgen, Inc. 289 Digimarc Corp. 290 Google, Inc. 291 Airbus France 292 Becton, Dickinson and Co. 293 Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc. 294 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. 295 Qisda Corp. 296 Yamaha Marine K.K. 297 BAE Systems, Inc. 298 Daikin Industries Ltd. 299 DSM IP Assets B.V. 300 Ebara Corp. 301 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG 302 Mitutoyo Corp. 303 Showa Denko K.K. 304 DirecTV Group, Inc. 62 62 61 59 59 58 58 58 57 57 57 Intellectual Property Owners Association

Top 300 Patent Owners - 2008 5 Alphabetical Listing Rank Organization Patents Rank Organization Patents 47 3M Innovative Properties Co. 408 253 Abbott Laboratories 239 Accenture 71 209 Acushnet Co. 143 ADC Telecommunications, Inc. 131 198 Adobe Systems, Inc. 86 245 Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. 99 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 194 281 Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. 157 Advantest Corp. 110 108 Agere Systems Inc. 181 Agilent Technologies, Inc. 2 162 Air Liquide Corp. 104 240 Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. 291 Airbus France 57 1 Aisin Seiki K.K. 94 2 Ajinomoto Co. Inc. Alcatel-Lucent 293 238 Allergan, Inc. 71 128 Alps Electric Co., Ltd. 145 2 Alstom Technology Ltd. 65 Altera Corp. 257 2 American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc. 288 Amgen, Inc. 58 149 Analog Devices, Inc. 122 196 AOL LLC 87 106 Apple Inc. 185 271 Applera Corp. Applied Materials, Inc. 314 257 ARM Ltd. 220 Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. ASML Netherlands B.V. 271 1 AstraZeneca AB 100 18 AT&T 820 213 Atmel Corp. 107 AU Optronics Corp. 183 136 Avago Technologies (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 141 218 Avaya Technology Corp. 297 BAE Systems, Inc. 97 Baker Hughes Inc. 197 92 BASF AG 214 230 Bayerische Motoren Werke AG 214 BEA Systems, Inc. 292 Becton, Dickinson and Co. 57 119 Black & Decker Inc. 159 45 Boeing Co. 421 52 Boston Scientific Corp. 358 224 Bridgestone Corp. 125 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. 147 26 Broadcom Corp. 3 41 Brother Kogyo K.K. 462 246 Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 177 California Institute of Technology 96 2 Callaway Golf Co. 4 Canon K.K. 2,153 225 Carl Zeiss SMT AG 181 Casio Computer Co. Ltd. 93 105 Caterpillar Inc. 187 268 Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd. 286 Chrysler LLC 59 241 Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Ltd. 247 Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp. 23 Cisco Technology, Inc. 4 205 CNH America LLC 81 1 Commissariat a l'energie Atomique 98 134 Corning Inc. 231 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research 258 Cree, Inc. 1 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. 106 182 Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd. 92 298 Daikin Industries Ltd. 1 Daimler AG 97 254 Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd. 124 Deere & Co. 152 118 Dell Products, L.P. 159 61 Delphi Technologies, Inc. 311 189 Delta Electronics Inc. 90 25 Denso Corp. 6 289 Digimarc Corp. 58 304 DirecTV Group, Inc. 100 Dongbu Electronics Co., Ltd. 194 204 Dow Chemical Co. 82 299 DSM IP Assets B.V. 36 DuPont 501 287 Eastman Chemical Co. 59 59 Eastman Kodak Co. 320 153 Eaton Corp. 119

6 Alphabetical Listing Top 300 Patent Owners - 2008 Alphabetical Listing Rank Organization Patents Rank Organization Patents 300 Ebara Corp. 77 Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute 254 2 Eli Lilly and Co. 1 Elpida Memory, Inc. 97 EMC Corp. 192 76 Exxon Mobil Corp. 2 242 Fanuc Ltd. 2 FCI Americas Technology, Inc. 131 Finisar Corp. 54 Ford Global Technologies, LLC 336 248 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V. 57 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. 322 195 Fu Zhun Precision Industrial Co., Ltd. 88 Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. 332 16 Fujifilm Corp. 8 210 Fujinon Corp. 9 Fujitsu Ltd. 1,4 127 Funai Electric Co., Ltd. 146 88 Genentech, Inc. 226 14 General Electric Co. 1,243 35 General Motors Corp. 510 111 GlaxoSmithKline 171 2 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 290 Google, Inc. 58 85 Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. 236 183 Harris Corp. 92 234 Headway Technologies, Inc. 301 Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG 11 Hewlett-Packard Co. 1,422 3 Hitachi, Ltd. 2,197 134 Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. 38 Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd. 498 24 Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 3 21 Honeywell International Inc. 7 98 Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. 196 154 Hoya Corp. 114 2 HRL Laboratories, LLC 65 43 Hynix Semiconductor Inc. 435 161 Hyundai Motor Co. 104 86 Illinois Tool Works Inc. 233 65 Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan 286 19 Infineon Technologies AG 809 226 Institut Francais du Petrole 6 Intel Corp. 1,7 140 Interdigital Technology Corp. 135 1 International Business Machines Corp. 4,1 147 International Game Technology (IGT) 124 190 International Rectifier Corp. 90 Inventec Corp. 131 165 Japan Science and Technology Agency 259 Johns Hopkins University 49 Johnson & Johnson 405 282 Jtekt Corp. 206 Juniper Networks, Inc. 81 215 Kao Corp. 135 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. 142 176 KLA-Tencor Technologies Corp. 97 235 Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 159 Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. 107 184 Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. 92 293 Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc. 57 251 Konica Minolta Opto, Inc. 68 31 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. 584 227 Kyocera Corp. 1 Kyocera Mita Corp. 228 LAM Research Corp. 265 Lear Corp. 65 229 Lenovo Pte. Ltd. 126 Lexmark International, Inc. 147 221 LG Chemical Ltd. 68 LG Display Co., Ltd. 2 20 LG Electronics Inc. 805 LG Philips LCD Co., Ltd. 250 94 Lockheed Martin Corp. 208 132 L'Oreal S.A. LSI Logic Corp. 248 48 Lucent Technologies Inc. 405 139 Macronix International Co., Ltd. 136 109 Marvell International Ltd. 1 142 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 134 232 Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. 114 Mediatek Inc. 1 Medtronic Inc. 287 130 Merck & Co., Inc. 145 1 Merck Patent GmbH 100 243 Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A. 13 Micron Technology, Inc. 1,277 5 Microsoft Corp. 2,043 39 Mitsubishi Denki K.K. 481 197 Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. 87 222 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. 302 Mitutoyo Corp. Intellectual Property Owners Association

Top 300 Patent Owners - 2008 7 Alphabetical Listing Alphabetical Listing Rank Organization Patents Rank Organization Patents 113 Monsanto Co. 1 33 Motorola, Inc. 543 117 Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 161 104 National Semiconductor Corp. 191 219 NCR Corp. 77 34 NEC Corp. 527 NEC Electronics Corp. 2 1 Network Appliance, Inc. 112 146 NGK Insulators Ltd. 125 121 Nikon Corp. 157 294 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. 90 Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. 222 1 Nitto Denko Corp. 103 27 Nokia Corp. 8 Nortel Networks Ltd. 2 1 Northrop Grumman Corp. 114 280 Novartis AG 61 186 NSK Ltd. 91 123 NTT Docomo, Inc. 152 110 Nvidia Corp. 1 103 NXP B.V. 192 87 OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd. 232 2 Okidata Corp. Olympus Corp. 285 203 Omron Corp. 84 95 Oracle International Corp. 201 201 Pacesetter, Inc. 85 7 Panasonic Corp. 1,7 137 Pfizer Inc. 141 120 Pioneer Corp. 158 207 Pitney-Bowes, Inc. 80 211 PPG Industries Ohio Inc. 71 Procter & Gamble Co. 271 295 Qisda Corp. Qualcomm, Inc. 309 249 Rambus, Inc. 148 Raytheon Co. 123 2 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 37 Renesas Technology Corp. 500 91 Research In Motion Ltd. 220 17 Ricoh Co., Ltd. 851 46 Robert Bosch GmbH 416 193 Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. 90 2 Rockwell Collins, Inc. 188 Rohm and Haas Co. 91 122 Rohm Co., Ltd. 1 199 Rolls-Royce PLC 86 112 Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. 1 2 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. 3,502 44 Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. 432 223 Sandia Corp. 93 SanDisk Corp. 211 1 Sanofi-Aventis 42 Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. 446 80 SAP AG 246 233 Schering Corp. Schlumberger Technology Corp. 259 82 Seagate Technology, LLC 245 15 Seiko Epson Corp. 1,219 252 Seiko Instruments Inc. 68 40 Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. 468 30 Sharp Corp. 585 133 Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. 141 Shell Oil Co. 135 236 Shimano Inc. 185 Shin Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. 92 303 Showa Denko K.K. 12 Siemens AG 1,288 187 Silicon Laboratories Inc. 91 28 Silverbrook Research Pty. Ltd. 8 2 Smith International Inc. 62 276 Societe Nationale d'etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'aviation 10 Sony Corp. 1,461 244 Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB 191 Spansion LLC 90 150 Sprint Communications Co., L.P. 122 250 Sprint Spectrum L.P. 151 Stanford University 120 53 STMicroelectronics, Inc. 349 208 Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. 80 129 Sumitomo Electric Industries Co., Ltd. 145 283 Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. 277 Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. 32 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 543 2 Symantec Corp. 200 Symantec Operating Corp. 86 284 Synopsys Inc. 51 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. 365 202 Takata Corp. 85 58 TDK Corp. 322 Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson 2 22 Texas Instruments, Inc. 7 237 Thales

8 Top 300 Patent Owners - 2008 Alphabetical Listing Rank Organization Patents 96 Thomson Licensing S.A. 201 81 Tokyo Electron Ltd. 246 8 Toshiba Corp. 1,5 216 Toyoda Gosei K.K. 50 Toyota Jidosha K.K. 387 1 Tyco Electronics Corp. 96 285 Unilever 194 Unisys Corp. 89 152 United Microelectronics Corp. 120 145 United States of America, Army 129 158 United States of America, Health & Human Services 109 261 United States of America, National Aeronautics and Space Administration 89 United States of America, Navy 224 United Technologies Corp. 333 84 University of California, The Regents of 237 262 University of Michigan 212 University of Texas 1 Verizon 98 116 VIA Technologies, Inc. 1 180 Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. 94 217 Weatherford/Lamb, Inc. 2 Whirlpool Corp. 62 192 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation 90 138 Wyeth 137 29 Xerox Corp. 6 83 Xilinx, Inc. 243 2 Yahoo, Inc. 101 Yamaha Corp. 193 168 Yamaha Hatsudoki K.K., Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. 101 296 Yamaha Marine K.K. 115 Yazaki Corp. 1 171 Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG 99 Intellectual Property Owners Association

Top 300 Patent Owners - 2008 9 NOTES: 1. The number of patents granted does not necessarily indicate the value of a company s technology, the effectiveness of its R & D, or whether it will be profitable. The number of patents per company varies widely from industry to industry and from company to company within an industry. 2. This report was compiled by IPO from data provided by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Patents reported are utility patents granted during calendar year 2008 that listed the organization or a subsidiary as the owner on the printed patent document. If an assignment of rights to an organization or its subsidiary was recorded after the patent document was printed, the patent was not counted. Patents in the name of majority-owned subsidiaries are consolidated with patents of the parent organization if the organization asked IPO by March 1, 2009 to include subsidiaries. Patents that were granted to two or more organizations jointly are attributed to the organization listed first on the patent document. 3. The number of utility patents granted by the USPTO increased to 157,7 in 2008 from 157,282 in 2007. 4. IPO has published this report annually since 1984 as a service to its members. For annual lists go to /TopPatentOwners. 5. Next year IPO will list patents under the name of the parent organization that are granted to majorityowned subsidiaries if the organization provides the names of its majority-owned subsidiaries to IPO by March 1, 2010. 6. IPO makes reasonable efforts to avoid errors, but cannot assure complete accuracy.

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