U.S. Patent Assignees with the highest number of patent applications filed in the year 2014
| 1. | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION | 🇺🇸 ARMONK, NY, United States | 8,164 |
| 2. | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. | 🇰🇷 Suwon-si, South Korea | 4,761 |
| 3. | CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan | 3,540 |
| 4. | INTEL CORPORATION | 🇺🇸 Santa Clara, CA, United States | 3,045 |
| 5. | QUALCOMM INCORPORATED | 🇺🇸 San Diego, CA, United States | 2,939 |
| 6. | HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD. | 🇹🇼 New Taipei, Taiwan | 2,543 |
| 7. | Sony Corporation | 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan | 2,543 |
| 8. | APPLE INC. | 🇺🇸 Cupertino, CA, United States | 2,432 |
| 9. | GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY | 🇺🇸 Schenectady, NY, United States | 2,208 |
| 10. | LG ELECTRONICS INC. | 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea | 2,122 |
| 11. | MICROSOFT CORPORATION | 🇺🇸 Redmond, WA, United States | 2,071 |
| 12. | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan | 1,907 |
| 13. | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | 🇺🇸 Redmond, WA, United States | 1,859 |
| 14. | PANASONIC CORPORATION | 🇯🇵 Osaka, Japan | 1,764 |
| 15. | FUJITSU LIMITED | 🇯🇵 Kawasaki-shi, Japan | 1,722 |
| 16. | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. | 🇰🇷 Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea | 1,639 |
| 17. | GOOGLE INC. | 🇺🇸 Mountain View, CA, United States | 1,564 |
| 18. | SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION | 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan | 1,494 |
| 19. | SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD. | 🇰🇷 Yongin-City, South Korea | 1,493 |
| 20. | Robert Bosch GMBH | 🇩🇪 Stuttgart, Germany | 1,476 |
| 21. | HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. | 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, China | 1,428 |
| 22. | FUJITSU LIMITED | 🇯🇵 Kawasaki, Japan | 1,389 |
| 23. | FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC | 🇺🇸 Dearborn, MI, United States | 1,342 |
| 24. | Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ) | 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden | 1,297 |
| 25. | GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC | 🇺🇸 Detroit, MI, United States | 1,225 |
| 26. | TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD. | 🇹🇼 Hsin-Chu, Taiwan | 1,169 |
| 27. | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba | 🇯🇵 Minato-ku, Japan | 1,135 |
| 28. | RICOH COMPANY, LTD. | 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan | 1,122 |
| 29. | Hyundai Motor Company | 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea | 1,108 |
| 30. | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | 🇯🇵 Osaka, Japan | 1,084 |
| 31. | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. | 🇺🇸 Houston, TX, United States | 1,053 |
| 32. | Koninklijke Philips N.V. | 🇳🇱 Eindhoven, Netherlands | 1,039 |
| 33. | Broadcom Corporation | 🇺🇸 Irvine, CA, United States | 996 |
| 34. | HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD. | 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan | 993 |
| 35. | Micron Technology, Inc. | 🇺🇸 Boise, ID, United States | 988 |
| 36. | FUJIFILM CORPORATION | 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan | 978 |
| 37. | Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute | 🇰🇷 Daejeon, South Korea | 974 |
| 38. | BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 🇯🇵 Nagoya-shi, Japan | 868 |
| 39. | Covidien LP | 🇺🇸 Mansfield, MA, United States | 844 |
| 40. | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd | 🇰🇷 , South Korea | 841 |
| 41. | CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. | 🇺🇸 San Jose, CA, United States | 838 |
| 42. | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED | 🇺🇸 Dallas, TX, United States | 836 |
| 43. | The Boeing Company | 🇺🇸 Chicago, IL, United States | 802 |
| 44. | BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 🇯🇵 Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, Japan | 795 |
| 45. | TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 🇯🇵 Toyota-shi, Japan | 794 |
| 46. | XEROX CORPORATION | 🇺🇸 Norwalk, CT, United States | 789 |
| 47. | MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION | 🇯🇵 TOKYO, Japan | 761 |
| 48. | HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC. | 🇺🇸 Houston, TX, United States | 752 |
| 49. | The Regents of the University of California | 🇺🇸 Oakland, CA, United States | 747 |
| 50. | HITACHI, LTD. | 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan | 745 |
| 51. | AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP | 🇺🇸 Atlanta, GA, United States | 710 |
| 52. | SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD. | 🇰🇷 Suwon, South Korea | 710 |
| 53. | NVIDIA Corporation | 🇺🇸 Santa Clara, CA, United States | 696 |
| 54. | HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD. | 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, China | 689 |
| 55. | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION | 🇺🇸 Redwood Shores, CA, United States | 686 |
| 56. | NEC Corporation | 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan | 685 |
| 57. | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. | 🇺🇸 Morristown, NJ, United States | 684 |
| 58. | GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. | Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands | 660 |
| 59. | Caterpillar Inc. | 🇺🇸 Peoria, IL, United States | 658 |
| 60. | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD. | 🇰🇷 Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | 652 |
| 61. | INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG | 🇩🇪 Neubiberg, Germany | 649 |
| 62. | NOKIA CORPORATION | 🇫🇮 Espoo, Finland | 639 |
| 63. | Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha | 🇯🇵 Osaka, Japan | 631 |
| 64. | The Procter &Gamble Company | 🇺🇸 Cincinnati, OH, United States | 628 |
| 65. | FACEBOOK, INC. | 🇺🇸 Menlo Park, CA, United States | 621 |
| 66. | LG CHEM, LTD. | 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea | 620 |
| 67. | LG INNOTEK, CO., LTD. | 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea | 610 |
| 68. | SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT | 🇩🇪 Munich, Germany | 602 |
| 69. | UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION | 🇺🇸 Hartford, CT, United States | 595 |
| 70. | SK HYNIX INC. | 🇰🇷 Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | 594 |
| 71. | LG DISPLAY CO., LTD. | 🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea | 593 |
| 72. | Adobe Systems Incorporated | 🇺🇸 San Jose, CA, United States | 591 |
| 73. | SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION | 🇺🇸 Sugar land, TX, United States | 587 |
| 74. | TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) | 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden | 576 |
| 75. | Applied Materials, Inc. | 🇺🇸 Santa Clara, CA, United States | 572 |
| 76. | SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD. | 🇯🇵 Atsugi-shi, Japan | 569 |
| 77. | TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 🇯🇵 Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, Japan | 565 |
| 78. | DENSO CORPORATION | 🇯🇵 Kariya-city, Japan | 558 |
| 79. | BASF SE | 🇩🇪 Ludwigshafen, Germany | 556 |
| 80. | BLACKBERRY LIMITED | 🇨🇦 Waterloo Ontario, Canada | 546 |
| 81. | OLYMPUS CORPORATION | 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan | 544 |
| 82. | 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY | 🇺🇸 St. Paul, MN, United States | 542 |
| 83. | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | 🇨🇳 Beijing, China | 538 |
| 84. | FUJI XEROX CO., LTD. | 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan | 535 |
| 85. | DENSO CORPORATION | 🇯🇵 Kariya, Japan | 533 |
| 86. | FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC | 🇺🇸 Austin, TX, United States | 522 |
| 87. | KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC. | 🇯🇵 Osaka, Japan | 506 |
| 88. | TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED | 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, China | 504 |
| 89. | SAP AG | 🇩🇪 Walldorf, Germany | 499 |
| 90. | INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE | 🇹🇼 HSINCHU, Taiwan | 496 |
| 91. | DELL PRODUCTS L.P. | 🇺🇸 Round Rock, TX, United States | 482 |
| 92. | SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 🇯🇵 Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan | 482 |
| 93. | Research In Motion Limited | 🇨🇦 Waterloo, Canada | 473 |
| 94. | Nokia Technologies Oy | 🇫🇮 Espoo, Finland | 466 |
| 95. | Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. | 🇰🇷 Yongin-si, South Korea | 462 |
| 96. | SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD. | 🇰🇷 Yongin-si, South Korea | 457 |
| 97. | eBay Inc. | 🇺🇸 San Jose, CA, United States | 455 |
| 98. | SAP SE | 🇩🇪 Walldorf, Germany | 453 |
| 99. | Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co Ltd. | 🇨🇳 Shenzhen, Guangdong, China | 452 |
| 100. | Nike, Inc. | 🇺🇸 Beaverton, OR, United States | 448 |
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