Top 10 Private Sector Patent Recipients for the 2003 Calendar Year:
3,415 International Business Machines Corporation
1,992 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
1,893 Hitachi
1,786 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
1,759 Hewlett-Packard Development Company
1,707 Micron Technology
1,592 Intel Corporation
1,353 Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
1,313 Samsung Electronics Co.
1,311 Sony Corporation
