February 10, 2023

IPO & Harrity Analytics Release List of Top 300 Patent Holders for 2022

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Last month, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and Harrity Analytics announced the release of the 40th annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. utility patents (see "Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2022"). Patent Docs readers may recall that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office stopped releasing its annual list of top patent recipients in 2006 in order to "discourag[e] any perception that we believe more is better."

As with the 2021 report, the 2022 report was compiled in collaboration with Harrity Analytics, based on data obtained from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The IPO and Harrity Analytics noted that patents reported on the 2022 list are utility patents granted during the 2022 calendar year that listed the organization or a subsidiary as the owner on the printed patent document. Harrity Analytics then used organization and subsidiary data provided to two independent third-party data providers and reviewed over 200,000 assignments to attribute ownership to the correct organizations, where applicable. The report notes that patents that were granted to two or more organizations jointly are attributed to each organization separately, and that companies for which patents were granted to subsidiaries are combined with patents granted to the parent.

The IPO and Harrity Analytics also noted that 323,018 patents were issued in 2022, down 1% from the 327,798 patents that issued in 2021. The top twenty companies on the Top 300 are listed below (click on table to expand):

As in past years, Patent Docs used the IPO's list of top patent holders to compile a list of the top "life sciences" companies and organizations receiving U.S. utility patents in 2022. Each organization's top 300 ranking for 2022 is indicated in the "2022 IPO Rank" column; the top 300 ranking for 2021 (if available) is indicated in the "2021 IPO Rank" column; and the change in number of patents from 2021 is indicated in "% Change from 2021." The Life Sciences Top 56 is listed below (click on table to expand):

Please note that some of the companies and organizations listed above may be involved in work outside the life sciences sector, and therefore, a portion of the patents granted to these companies and organizations may be directed to other than life sciences-related inventions. Our list also includes medical device companies.

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