Name

Website

DPD patents*

Comments

Agilent

www.agilent.com

1

Fissioned from Hewlett-Packard; 1 HP patent in DPD

Allergan

www.allergan.com

4

 

Amersham Biosciences

www.apbiotech.com

36

formerly Amersham Pharmacia Biotech

Amgen

www.amgen.com

185

Acquired Immunex 2001; patent count includes 90 Immunex patents

Applera

www.applera.com

64

incl PE Corp, Perkin Elmer, Applied Biosystems, PerSeptive Biosystems, and NEN Life Sciences, but *not* Celera (surveyed separately); formerly PE Corp.

ArQule

www.arqule.com

2

 

Astra-Zeneca

www.astrazeneca.com

79

 

Aventis

www.aventis.com

178

includes Hoechst, Marion, Roussel Uclaf, Rhone-Poulenc and Rorer

BASF

www.basf.com

26

 

Bayer

www.bayer.com

55

 

Beckman Coulter

www.beckmancoulter.com

29

Incl Beckman Instruments and Coulter

Biogen

www.biogen.com

52

 

Boehringer Ingelheim

www.boehringer-ingelheim.com

32

 

Bristol-Myers Squibb

www.bms.com

57

Incl 3 DuPont pharma patents

Chiron

www.chiron.com

264

Incl 185 Chiron, 76 Cetus and 3 Pathogenesis patents

Corning Life Sciences (Corning Microarray Technology)

www.scienceproducts.corning.com

9

Patents held by Ciba Corning Diagnostics

Genentech

www.gene.com

224

Does not include Hoffmann-La Roche patents (H-LR holds equity in Genentech)

Genzyme

www.genzyme.com

48

Includes 10 patents from Integrated Genetics

Glaxo SmithKline

www.glaxowellcome.co.uk

228

Includes Glaxo, Wellcome, Burroughs Wellcome, SmithKline Beecham, Beecham, Smith Kline & French

Hisamitsu Pharma

www.hisamitsu.co.jp

6

Formed GenoFunction subsidiary for genomics

Hitachi Genetic Systems/MiraiBio, Inc.

www.miraibio.com

30

Subsidiary of Hitachi

Hoffman-La Roche (Roche Holdings and others)

www.rocheusa.com

131

Includes various Roche, but not Genentech

J&J (Ortho, Janssen)

www.jnj.com

34

Includes J&J, Ortho (various) and Janssen

Lilly

www.lilly.com

149

 

Merck

www.merck.com

131

includes Merck&Co., Merck Patent GmbH, Merck Frosst, Rhone Merieux, and Merck Sharpe & Dohme

Motorola

www.motorola.com/biochipsystems

5

 

Novartis (incl. Institute of Functional Genomics)

www.novartis.com

112

includes Sandoz, Ciba, Geigy and combinations

Novo-Nordisk

www.novonordisk.com

164

does *not* include Zymogenetics (with 80), surveyed separately; de-merger to split pharma and enzyme Cos.

Otsuka

www.otsuka.co.jp

13

 

Pfizer, Inc. (see also Parke-Davis and Warner-Lambert)

www.pfizer.com

15

Includes Warner-Lambert and Parke-Davis

Pharmacia & Upjohn

www.pnu.com

77

includes Pharmacia pharma, Upjohn and combinations

Qiagen

www.qiagen.com

6

Includes Qiagen Genomics, a subsidiary

Schering-Plough (incl. Berlex)

www.sch~plough.com

69

includes Berlex

Shimadzu Biotech

www.kratos.com

10

Subsidiary of Shimadzu Corp., Japan

Wyeth

www.ahp.com

150

includes Genetics Institute and Wyeth-Ayerst; name changed to Wyeth March 2002

Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co.

www.yamanouchi.com

2

Announced 50 Billion yen genomics investment over 5 years, April 2001 (or 12 to 16 percent of R&D)

* Patents in the DNA Patent Database (www.genomic.org), which covers DNA-based patents from 1980 through the end of 1999.