Patentee Name Harmonisation - ecoom.be

24 SHARP 10880 470531 14.64 4102 6778
25 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS 10801 481332 14.97 3247 7554
Although presenting a ranking based on the combined EPO and USPTO patents might not be
very meaningful (applications versus grants, 1978-2004 versus 1991-2003), the comparison of
the two rankings gives an idea of the impact of the name cleaning and harmonization
procedure.
Differences in ranking are surprisingly small. “INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES
CORPORATION“ jumps from 3rd and 20th place to 1st place. Places 4 to 10 remain unchanged.
11 and 12 have switched, “ROBERT BOSCH“ drops from 13 to 16, “BAYER” jumps from 24 to
13, “KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS” and “SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY“ have
switched, “E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY“ enters at place 20, pushing “MINNESOTA
MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY“ out of the top 25, and “THE PROCTER & GAMBLE
COMPANY“ enters at place 23 because of the combination of “INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
MACHINES CORPORATION and “INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINESCORPORATION”.
Table 34 contains the top 25 patentees after name cleaning and harmonization with the number
of matched original patentee names for the particular harmonized name, the total number of
patents, the number of patents of the original patentee name having the most assigned patents,
the additional number of patents assigned to the particular harmonized name, and the share of
additional assigned patents in the total number of patents assigned to the particular harmonized
name.
Table 34: Additional assigned patents top 25 patentees
HARMONIZED NAME NBR NAMES NBR PAT MAX PAT ADD PAT SHARE
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
MACHINES CORPORATION
20 41,173 28,469 12,704 31%
CANON 26 31,741 31,649 92 0%
SIEMENS 18 30,770 30,452 318 1%
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC
INDUSTRIAL COMPANY
38 26,379 25,594 785 3%
SONY CORPORATION 10 23,665 23,620 45 0%
NEC CORPORATION 5 23,508 23,468 40 0%
TOSHIBA 4 23,344 23,277 67 0%
HITACHI 17 22,754 22,226 528 2%
GENERAL ELECTRIC
COMPANY
12 19,620 19,117 503 3%
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY 6 18,863 18,847 16 0%
FUJITSU 10 18,575 18,310 265 1%
MITSUBISHI DENKI 31 18,513 18,445 68 0%
BASF 8 18,499 16,855 1,644 9%
MOTOROLA 16 17,294 15,758 1,536 9%
BAYER 11 17,220 10,053 7,167 42%
ROBERT BOSCH 9 17,052 16,870 182 1%
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS
COMPANY
50 14,897 13,561 1,336 9%
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS
ELECTRONICS
11 14,550 14,411 139 1%
FUJI PHOTO FILM COMPANY 27 12,985 12,652 333 3%
E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS
& COMPANY
51 12,252 6,269 5,983 49%
XEROX CORPORATION 4 12,111 12,104 7 0%
HEWLETT-PACKARD
COMPANY
23 12,024 11,018 1,006 8%
THE PROCTER & GAMBLE
COMPANY
8 11,862 7,300 4,562 38%
SHARP 19 10,880 10,584 296 3%
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS 8 10,801 10,353 448 4%
Table 34 gives further insight into the shift in ranking before and after name cleaning and
harmonization. The jump of “INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION“, “BAYER”,
“E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & COMPANY” and “THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY” can be
explained by the high share of additional assigned patents from name harmonization. The
relative increase in additional patents of the other top patentees is rather moderate.
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