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Ranking of U.S. companies with the most international patent applications 2016

Ranking of top patent applicant U.S. organizations via the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) in 2016, by number of applications

The data displays a ranking of U.S. companies or organizations that filed the most international patent applications via the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 2016. In 2016, the leading company was Qualcomm Incorporated with 2,466 filings for international patent applications.

Qualcomm Incorporated 2466
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. 1742
Intel Corporation 1692
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc 1528
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. 1097
3M Innovative Properties Company 653
Procter & Gamble Company 624
Google Inc. 584
Apple Inc. 450
University of California 434