[2012 특허 순위] 폭발적으로 성장한 구글과 애플

2012년 등록된 미국 특허의 순위를 아래의 출처에서 인용하였습니다.

IFI CLAIMS^® 2012 Top 50 US Patent Assignees

놀랍지 않게 IBM이 1등을 했구요. 20년째 1위랍니다.

Rank	Grants	Assignee Name	Country
1	6478	International Business Machines Corp (View Snapshot Report)	United States
2	5081	Samsung Electronics Co Ltd KR	Korea
3	3174	Canon K K JP    (View Snapshot Report)	Japan
4	3032	Sony Corp JP	Japan
5	2769	Panasonic Corp JP	Japan
6	2613	Microsoft Corp	United States
7	2447	Toshiba Corp JP	Japan
8	2013	Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd TW	Taiwan
9	1652	General Electric Co	United States
10	1624	LG Electronics Inc KR	Korea

11	1535	Fujitsu Ltd JP	Japan
12	1461	Seiko Epson Corp JP	Japan
13	1436	Hitachi Ltd JP	Japan
14	1410	Ricoh Co Ltd JP	Japan
15	1394	Hewlett-Packard Development Co L P	United States
16	1377	GM Global Technology Operations LLC	United States
17	1292	QUALCOMM Inc	United States
18	1290	Intel Corp	United States
19	1285	Toyota Jidosha K K JP	Japan
20	1157	Broadcom Corp	United States
21	1151	Google Inc	United States
22	1136	Apple Inc	United States

43

747

SK Hynix Inc KR

Korea

47

664

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute KR

Korea

50

626

LG Display Co Ltd KR

Korea

그 밖에 2012년 폭발적으로 성장한 회사 1등 2등이 구글과 애플이구요. 어쨌거나 구글이 애플을 제쳤네요. 

                         i.         Google, +170% (65위 -> 21위)

                        ii.         Apple, +68% (39위 -> 22위)

                       iii.         Alcatel-Lucent, +59%

                       iv.         Hong Fu Jin Precision, +59%

                        v.         Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, +59%

                       vi.         Research in Motion, +49%

                      vii.         Taiwan Semiconductor, +49%

                     viii.         QUALCOMM, 40%

                       ix.         Hon Hai Precision Industry, 33%

                        x.         NEC, +32%

                       xi.         Sony, 33%

                      xii.         Toyota, 29%

                     xiii.         Sharp, 28%

                     xiv.         GM Global Technology, 26%

반대로 두드러지게 순위가 밀린 회사로는... 

                         i.         Cisco drops to #31 from #22

                        ii.         DuPont to #57 from #50

                       iii.         SK Hynix Inc (KR) to #43 from #25

                       iv.         Infineon Technologies (DE) to #61 from #44

                        v.         Micron Technology to #32 from #24

                       vi.         Nokia (FI) to #47 to #52

                      vii.         Silverbrook Research (AU) to #157 from #31

                     viii.         Seiko Epson (JP) to #12 from #8

치고 올라가는 회사중엔 한국이 없고, 밀린 회사중에 한국 회사가 하나(SK Hynix) 있군요... 

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