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Friday, January 17, 2014

Top 50 Patent Holders in US

http://ificlaims.com/index.php?page=misc_top_50_2013

As for companies with camera business, the following are extracted and ranked (although they do have other businesses as well):

Company
Ranked for Camera Makers

Overall Ranking
Samsung12
Canon 23
Sony34
Panasonic46
Ricoh517
Fujifilm642

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Nikon ?
2 replies · active 585 weeks ago
Nikon is Mitsubishi if I am not mistaken.
Nikon Patents "Nikon DF" aka Dumbs Fu*ed, and then they will come with Nikon DFs aka Dumbs Fu*ed and Screewed. (Sorry for my language)
What is the point of this pointless statistics?

Anybody with a background in patent management knows that "the number of patents" provides ZERO information on anything else than, well, the number of patents. It is not a good proxy for innovative power.

Better, although still very crude, proxies might be: number of employees in R&D, total investments in R&D, total size of window area in R&D department, total use of paper in R&D department (measured with and without toilet paper to further determine the value of R&D output).

So. what.

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