http://www.ibm.com/news/in/2004/01/2004011401.html
January 13, 2004... IBM earned 3,415 U.S. patents in 2003, breaking the record for patents received in a single year and extending its run as the world most innovative company to eleven consecutive years. Led by growth in patents that fuel the company latest on demand computing and services offerings, IBM eclipsed the nearest company by more than 1,400 patents.
During the past eleven years, IBM innovations have generated more than 25,000 U.S. patents -- nearly triple the total of any U.S. IT competitor during this time and surpassing the combined totals for Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, Intel, Apple, EMC, Accenture and EDS.
IBM is the only company to receive 3,000 patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office in a single year, passing that milestone each of the past three years.
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