1. BEGIN File 93 to search TableBase.

2. SELECT the main topic on the Title (/TI) field.

3. SELECT Set 1 (S1) and Document Type (DT) = RANKING.

DT=RANKING finds all records about the top or leading or highest rankings. Combined with S1, the second set includes all records showing rankings regarding patents.

?b 93

File  93:TableBase(R) Sep 1997-2007/Nov W3
       (c) 2007  The Gale Group

      Set  Items  Description
      ---  -----  -----------
?S PATENT?/TI
      S1     181  PATENT?/TI

?S   S1 AND DT=RANKING
             181  S1
           45159  DT=RANKING
      S2     103  S1 AND DT=RANKING

4. TYPE a sampling of records in Format 8, which gives Table Title, Source, Publication Date and Indexing.

To select the appropriate record number, look at the range of records in the TYPE command (e.g., 2/8/2).

Note: Some records have been omitted from this display.

?t s2/8/1-3

  2/8/1 
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  171545411         Supplier Number: 5722367  
   
  Global top 14 companies granted 1,000 or more patents ranked by 
  number of  patents for 2006  
 
  Publication Date: November 2007  
 
  Related Records: 5722367  
  Company Names: CANON INC; FUJITSU LTD; GENERAL ELECTRIC CO;   
  HEWLETT-PACKARD CO; HITACHI LTD; INTEL CORP; INTERNATIONAL 
  BUSINESS MACHINES  CORP; MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC; MICROSOFT CORP;  
  SAMSUNG COMPANY LTD; SEIKO EPSON  CORP; SONY CORP; TOSHIBA CORP  
  Concept Terms: Ranking; All intellectual property; Intellectual   
  property; Patents  
  Data Type: Business  
 
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  151213087         Supplier Number: 5285497  
 
  United States top 10 companies by number of patents awarded  
  in units for  2005  
 
  Source: US Patent and Trademark Office  
  Publication Date: July 2006  
 
  Related Records: 5285497  
  Company Names: CANON INC; FUJITSU AMERICA INC (FUJITSU LTD);   
  HEWLETT-PACKARD CO; HITACHI LTD; INTEL CORP; INTERNATIONAL  
  BUSINESS MACHINES  CORP; MATSUSHITA INDUSTRIAL COMPANY DIV;  
  MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC; SAMSUNG  ELECTRONICS AMERICA INC  
  (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD); TOSHIBA CORP  
  Product Names: Patent owners and lessors (679400)  
  Concept Terms: Ranking; All intellectual property;  
  Intellectual  property; Patents  
  Data Type: Business  
  Geographic Names: North America (NOAX); United States (USA)  
 
  2/8/3  
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  150031104         Supplier Number: 5266835  
 
  United States top 10 universities by number of patents granted  
  by the Patent  and Trademark Office in units for 2005  
 
  Source: US Patent and Trademark Office  
  Publication Date: May 2006  
 
  Related Records: 5266835  
  Company Names: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; COLUMBIA  
  UNIVERSITY;  CORNELL UNIVERSITY ; GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY;  
  JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY;  MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY;  
  STANFORD UNIVERSITY; UNIVERSITY OF  CALIFORNIA; UNIVERSITY OF  
  FLORIDA; UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN; UNIVERSITY OF  PENNSYLVANIA;  
  UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN  
  Product Names: Patent owners and lessors (679400); Colleges,  
  universities,  professional schools and junior colleges (822000);  
  Colleges, universities, and  professional schools (822100);  
  Colleges (except junior) and universities  (822144)  
  Concept Terms: Ranking; All intellectual property; Intellectual   
  property; Patents  
  Data Type: Business  
  Geographic Names: North America (NOAX); United States (USA)

Note: Part of this record is omitted from the display.

?t s2/7/1

2/7/1 
DIALOG(R)File 93: TableBase(R) Sep
(c) 2007 The Gale Group. All rights reserved.

171545411         Supplier Number: 5722367 

Global top 14 companies granted 1,000 or more patents ranked by 
number of  patents for 2006 
        
Notes:
CREATIVITY INC.

Companies granted 1,000 or more patents in 2006

                PATENTS
COMPANY         GRANTED
IBM               3,621
Samsung           2,451
Canon             2,366
Matsushita        2,229
Hewlett-Packard   2,099
Intel             1,959
Sony              1,771
Hitachi           1,732
Toshiba           1,672
Micron
  Technology      1,610
Fujitsu           1,487
Microsoft         1,463
Seiko Epson       1,200
GE                1,051

Originating Article: 
Innovators' dilemma. 
(PATENTS) 
        
Journal: CFO The Magazine for Senior Financial Executives,
        v 23 , n 11 ,  p 16 
Publication Date: November 2007 
Document Type: Journal; Ranking  ISSN: 8756-7113 (United States) 
Language: English  Record Type: Fulltext 
Word Count: 551 
Publisher: CFO Publishing Corp. 
              
Text: 

NEW PATENT LAWS THAT GO INTO EFFECT this month are ostensibly 
designed to cut down on frivolous filings and a crushing 
applications backlog, but critics say they may have a chilling 
effect on innovation. Previously, any person or company filing 
a patent application was allowed to file an unlimited number of 
continuation applications without supplying justification. 
This allowed a patent holder to win early protection for an 
idea and then expand on it over time, with all continuation 
patents deemed to be in effect from the date of the initial 
application. The new rules limit the number of continuations 
to three, unless a special justification is submitted and 
approved. They also limit the number of claims (a precise 
statement regarding an invention's capabilities that establishes 
the boundary of what a granted application would protect) 
to five, again unless special documentation convinces the U.S. 
Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) that additional claims are 
warranted.

That concerns some experts. "If a company is prolific with its 
inventions, it is going to have difficulties with these new 
rules," says Marc Sockol, partner and patent attorney at the 
Palo Alto, Calif., office of Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner. 
A biotech firm, for example, may believe that a new drug can be 
useful against many different health maladies but may be able 
to file a claim for only five. ....

PTO commissioner John Doll says the primary goal is "to make sure 
that the applicants have the best information in the best form in 
front of an examiner." Some patent-litigation experts wonder, 
however, whether another goal is to cut down on patent-
infringement lawsuits. So-called patent trolls routinely file 
patents for inventions they have no intention of developing ....

Copyright: Copyright  2007 CFO Publishing Corporation. All rights 
reserved.