The Patent Leader 5/27/2009 9:19:10 AM Dupont scores tops in survey intended to connect intellectual property and financial performance
The top-scoring company in the most recent ranking of global patent activity by the Patent Board, a patent analytics firm, is not a West Coast semiconductor or software giant, but DuPont, the 200-year-old chemical company based in Wilmington, Del.
The Patent Board's third-quarter survey puts DuPont ahead of Intel and Microsoft in terms of "technology strength," a measure of the overall quality and size of a company's patent portfolio. The Chicago-based firm uses a normalization process to factor out industry dynamics so it can compare portfolios across industries. Weatherford International, an oil-field services firm, is number four, and the medical technology firm Medtronic is number five.
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