1 Million PCT Applications and Growing
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) paid tribute on Friday 14 January 2005 to the world’s innovators on the occasion of the filing of the one millionth international patent application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
The overall top 20 PCT filers from 1995 to 2003 have been :
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Netherlands)
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany)
Procter & Gamble (United States)
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Sweden)
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Japan)
BASF Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
Motorola Inc. (United States)
E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company (United States)
Sony Corporation (Japan)
Bayer Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (United States)
The Regents of the University of California (United States)
Intel Corporation (United States)
Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (Germany)
Unilever (Great Britain/Netherlands)
3M Innovative Properties Company (United States)
Infineon Technologies AG (Germany)
Nokia Corporation (Finland)
Qualcomm Incorporated (United States)
The full WIPO Media Release can be read here.
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