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Silicon Valley Nation: Patent frenzy picks up pace
Brian Fuller
1/11/2013 7:01 AM EST
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A different database, one focusing on applications compiled by FAQs.org, lists German medical-device giant Sanofi-Aventis as the assignee with the largest increase in patent applications year to year, up 584 percent. The company is already off to fast start in 2013, having just filed an application for a lockout feature for an injection device that "includes a time lock that prevents a user from administering a dose of medicament prior to a pre-determined time interval."
Source: FAQ.org
Renesas took the patent-increase crown in 2011, boosting its applications from 49 to 584 (up 1092 percent).
FAQs.org lists Yamazaki, a semiconductor/LED/thin-film transistor inventor from Japan once named the world's most prolific inventor, with the most individual patent applications in 2012. Yamazaki is the president and majority shareholder of research company Semiconductor Energy Laboratory (SEL) Tokyo.
And while the preponderance of individual patent applications falls broadly into the electronics, 2012 saw the highest increases in applications in social media-monitoring and targeting.
The king of patent applications in recent years, however, goes to Australian inventor Kia Silverbrook (1,802), ahead of Americans Lowell Wood (1,190), Roderick Hyde (1,069) and Yamazaki (750).
A different database, one focusing on applications compiled by FAQs.org, lists German medical-device giant Sanofi-Aventis as the assignee with the largest increase in patent applications year to year, up 584 percent. The company is already off to fast start in 2013, having just filed an application for a lockout feature for an injection device that "includes a time lock that prevents a user from administering a dose of medicament prior to a pre-determined time interval."
| 2011-12 Patent Gainers (% increase) | 2011 | 2012 | Change |
| SANOFI-AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH | 25 | 171 | 584% |
| Fuji Electric Co., Ltd. | 23 | 129 | 461% |
| Motorola Mobility, Inc. | 34 | 184 | 441% |
| CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 21 | 99 | 371% |
| Cook Medical Technologies LLC | 30 | 135 | 350% |
| SHELL OIL COMPANY | 24 | 97 | 304% |
| FU TAI HUA INDUSTRY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD. | 59 | 227 | 285% |
| GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC | 288 | 1090 | 278% |
| ZTE CORPORATION | 253 | 912 | 260% |
| Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co. Ltd. | 26 | 81 | 212% |
Source: FAQ.org
Renesas took the patent-increase crown in 2011, boosting its applications from 49 to 584 (up 1092 percent).
FAQs.org lists Yamazaki, a semiconductor/LED/thin-film transistor inventor from Japan once named the world's most prolific inventor, with the most individual patent applications in 2012. Yamazaki is the president and majority shareholder of research company Semiconductor Energy Laboratory (SEL) Tokyo.
And while the preponderance of individual patent applications falls broadly into the electronics, 2012 saw the highest increases in applications in social media-monitoring and targeting.
The king of patent applications in recent years, however, goes to Australian inventor Kia Silverbrook (1,802), ahead of Americans Lowell Wood (1,190), Roderick Hyde (1,069) and Yamazaki (750).
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rick.merritt
1/11/2013 2:22 PM EST
Yikes, Kia Silverbrook filed nearly five patents on average a day in 2012!
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charlie babcock
1/11/2013 7:31 PM EST
Today versus 20 years ago: Bio/Pharma,energy in decline in terms of winning patents; electronics/telecom/solid state on the rise. Charlie Babcock, Editor at large, InformationWeek
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