Thursday, November 16, 2023

2023 Patent Quality Rankings: The Top 50 Companies

Patent Bots is pleased to announce its fourth annual Patent Quality Rankings of top companies. (We previously announced our Top 50 patent law firms and our Top 10 firms by Tech Center.)

We reviewed every patent issued by the USPTO in the past year  over 320,000!  using our advanced machine learning software. 

We then ranked more than 750 companies with 50+ patents issued based on the average number of numbering, antecedent basis, and word support errors detected in their patents. Our rankings are based only on these errors and do not address many other important aspects of patent quality. 

Patent Accuracy: By the Numbers.

Before we unveil the Top 50 companies, here's a quick look at the state of patent accuracy.
  • 323,393 patents processed by the Patent Bots AI
  • 33,425 (10.3%) patents achieved a perfect Patent Quality Score
  • 7.9 average errors per patent
  • 5 median errors per patent
Nearly 290,000 (90%) of all patents issued in the last year contained at least one numbering, antecedent basis, or word support error. There is clearly room for improved accuracy in the industry.

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Now, on to the rankings! 

2023 Patent Quality Rankings: Top 10 Large Companies.

Nanya Technology ranked first among companies with 250+ patents issued in the last year. 

Pioneer Hi-Bred International and Qualcomm ranked second and third, respectively, among large companies. They were followed by Juniper Networks, Citrix Systems, NTT Docomo, Yazaki, Seiko Epson, Toyota, and Sharp. 

Congratulations to Nanya Technology and the rest of these large companies for doing amazing work over the last year! 


2023 Patent Quality Rankings: Top 10 Mid-Sized Companies. 

Large companies don't have a monopoly on patent accuracy. Among mid-sized companies with between 100 and 249 patents issued, the top three patent quality scores were held by Ofinno, Commvault, and Zoox, respectively. 

They were followed by JTEKT, InnoLux, Yamaha, United Microelectronics, Uber (UATC), Haier US Appliances, and AISIN.


2023 Patent Quality Rankings: Top 50 Companies Overall. 

And, now, it's time to unveil the Top 50 companies with 50+ patents issued in the last year!

If you don't see your company on the list below, review our full list inside our PatentVerse. You'll need to log in to see your company's ranking as we don't want to publicly identify companies with lower scores.



RankCompanyPatents IssuedQuality Score
1SIGMASENSE, LLC.5899.7
2Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC7899.2
3Ofinno, LLC13798.7
4Commvault Systems, Inc.13498.2
5Zoox, Inc.17398.2
6Rohr, Inc.7397.9
7UAB 360 IT5097.5
8OneTrust, LLC6897.1
9JTEKT CORPORATION11097
10PEGATRON CORPORATION5696.7
11HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.5596.4
12NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION26995.9
13Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corporation6795.8
14InnoLux Corporation22495.6
15PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.27195.3
16BOMBARDIER INC.5094.6
17Transportation IP Holdings, LLC6894.5
18YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA13794.3
19NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION6293.4
20ZEON CORPORATION9193.3
21Midea Group Co., Ltd.5193
22UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP.21192.8
23UATC, LLC11192.7
24Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP7892.2
25Rubrik, Inc.6392.1
26Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.5991.8
27SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.8391.6
28QUALCOMM Incorporated293191.5
29Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.19691.4
30AISIN CORPORATION18491.4
31Shimano Inc.11090.7
32Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.5890.5
33Primax Electronics Ltd.5590.3
34Juniper Networks, Inc.28890.3
35GOODRICH CORPORATION16390.2
36Toyo Tire Corporation5390.2
37KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA13890
38Citrix Systems, Inc.34990
39JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED6989.9
40NTT DOCOMO, INC.27089.9
41Yazaki Corporation26589.6
42SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION124089.4
43Synaptics Incorporated7589.3
44TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA205989.1
45DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.5288.9
46SHOPIFY INC.6288.3
47DexCom, Inc.5988.2
48SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA59388
49KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI7387.9
50BETA AIR, LLC11287.6


Patent Quality Rankings Methodology.

The Patent Quality Rankings are based only on average errors in issued patents and don't address other important aspects of patent quality. 

For purpose of computing quality scores, we used only numbering errors, antecedent basis errors, and word support errors (words that don't appear in the detailed description).

Although we may over- or under-count errors in an individual patent, the average number of errors across all of a company's patents is a good indicator of the overall quality of the company's portfolio.