List of the top 100 European Patent Applicants in 2007
Hartmut Buettner @ May 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The 100 most active applicants filed almost one third of all patent applications out of the 141,000 applications received by the EPO (European Patent Office) in 2007. The top 500 applicants accounted for half of the applications filed, and the 10 most active companies accounted for 11% of the total.
Rank
Company
Count
1
PHILIPS
3,222
2
SAMSUNG
2,478
3
SIEMENS
1,850
4
BASF
1,474
5
MATSUSHITA
1,395
6
ROBERT BOSCH
1,166
7
LG
1,080
8
SONY
929
9
NOKIA
873
10
FUJITSU
819
Source: http://www.epo.org/about-us/…
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