Most Frequent PCT Users in 2004

The PCT World
According to the July 2005 PCT Newsletter, 235 applicants accounted for 37,217 (33.1%) of the 112,558 international applications published in 2004. Of these 235 applicants, 183 were from one of the following three countries: the United States of America (39.1% of the total), Japan (25.5%), and Germany (13.2%). There were also 97 applicants in each of whose names 100 or more international applications were published. Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. was, for the fourth consecutive year, the largest PCT user, with 2,697 international applications published,
followed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (1,415) and Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
(1,252).

Here are the 35 most frequent PCT users for 2004, listing applicant country of residence and
number of applications published:

1. Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. NL 2,697
2. Matsushita Electric
Industrial Co. Ltd. JP 1,415
3. Siemens Aktiengesellschaft DE 1,252
4. Fujitsu Ltd. JP 970
5. Robert Bosch GmbH DE 791
6. Sony Corp. JP 753
7. Nokia Oyj FI 733
8. Motorola, Inc. US 618
9. BASF Aktiengesellschaft DE 588
10. Bayer DE + others 548
11. 3M Innovative Properties Co. US 525
12. DaimlerChrysler AG DE 491
13. Infineon Technologies AG DE 461
14. Intel Corp. US 459
15. International Business Machines Corp. US 425
16. Qualcomm Inc. US 407
17. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co. US 395
18. Thomson Licensing S.A. FR 392
19. Honeywell International Inc. US 380
20. Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. US 379
21. The Procter & Gamble Co. US 367
22. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) SE 364
23. Philips Intellectual Property & Standards GmbH DE 357
24. Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha JP 344
25. Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha JP 306
26. LG Electronics Inc. KR 305
27. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. KR 292
28. Scimed Life Systems, Inc. US 279
29. The Regents of the University of California US 278
30. Medtronic, Inc. US 264
31. AstraZeneca AB SE 254
32. Japan Science and Technology Agency JP 253
33. Tokyo Electron Ltd. JP 237
34. Canon Kabushiki Kaisha JP 222
35. NEC Corp. JP 221