Top 10 Private Sector Patent Recipients for 2004
Preliminary Rank in 2004 *  Preliminary Number of Patents in 2004 *
Organization *  (Final Rank in 2003) (Final Number of Patents in 2003)
  
1 3,248  International Business Machines Corporation  (1)  (3,415)
2 1,934  Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.   (4) (1,774 )  
3 1,805  Canon Kabushiki Kaisha  (2) (1,992) 
4 1,775  Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. *  (5) (1,759) * 
5 1,760  Micron Technology, Inc.  (6) (1,707) 
6 1,604  Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.  (9) (1,313) 
7 1,601  Intel Corporation  (7) (1,592) 
8 1,514  Hitachi, Ltd  (3) (1,893) 
9 1,310  Toshiba Corporation  (13) (1,184) 
10 1,305  Sony Corporation  (10) 

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