|
Name |
Website |
DPD
patents* |
Comments |
|
United States
Government |
472 |
Includes NIH, CDC,
USDA, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense |
|
|
Incyte Pharmaceuticals
Inc. |
276 |
|
|
|
Chiron |
264 |
Includes 185 Chiron,
76 Cetus, and 3 PathoGenesis patents |
|
|
Glaxo SmithKline |
228 |
Includes Glaxo, Wellcome,
Burroughs Wellcome, SmithKline Beecham, Beecham, Smith Kline & French |
|
|
Genentech |
224 |
Does not include
Hoffmann-La Roche |
|
|
Amgen |
185 |
Acquired Immunex in Dec
2001; patents include 90 Immunex patents |
|
|
Aventis |
178 |
Includes Hoechst,
Marion, Roussel Uclaf, Rhone-Poulenc and Rorer |
|
|
Novo-Nordisk |
164 |
Does *not* include
Zymogenetics (with 80), surveyed separately; de-merger to split pharma and
enzyme Cos. |
|
|
American Home Products |
150 |
Includes Genetics
Institute and Wyeth-Ayerst |
|
|
Eli Lilly |
149 |
|
|
|
Hoffman-La Roche |
131 |
Includes Roche
Holdings, Roche Research Institute, but not Genentech |
|
|
Merck |
131 |
Includes Merck&Co.,
Merck Patent GmbH, Merck Frosst, Rhone Merieux, and Merck Sharpe & Dohme |
|
|
Novartis (incl.
Institute of Functional Genomics) |
112 |
Includes Sandoz, Ciba,
Geigy and combinations |
|
|
Human Genome Sciences
Inc. |
106 |
|
|
|
Astra-Zeneca |
79 |
|
|
|
Pharmacia & Upjohn |
77 |
Includes Pharmacia
pharma, Upjohn and combinations |
|
|
Schering-Plough (incl.
Berlex) |
69 |
Includes Berlex |
|
|
PE Corp |
63 |
Incl PE Corp, Perkin
Elmer, Applied Biosystems, PerSeptive Biosystems (Celera had 0 patents by end
of 1999) |
|
|
Life Technologies |
58 |
|
|
|
Bayer |
55 |
|
|
|
Bristol-Myers Squibb |
54 |
|
|
|
Biogen |
52 |
|
|
|
Millennium
Pharmaceuticals Inc. |
49 |
Includes 3 as
Millenium misspelled |
|
|
Genzyme |
38 |
|
|
|
Amersham Pharmacia
Biotech |
36 |
|
|
|
J&J (Ortho,
Janssen) |
34 |
Includes J&J,
Ortho (various) and Janssen |
|
|
Boehringer Ingelheim |
32 |
|
|
|
Lynx Therapeutics Inc. |
27 |
|
|
|
BASF |
26 |
|
|
|
Affymetrix Inc. |
25 |
|
|
|
Diversa Corp. |
20 |
|
|
|
Large Scale Biology
Corp. |
17 |
Includes BioSource
Technologies |
|
|
Myriad Genetics Inc. |
16 |
|
|
|
Pfizer, Inc. (see also
Parke-Davis and Warner-Lambert) |
14 |
Includes
Warner-Lambert and Parke-Davis |
|
|
Onyx Pharmaceuticals
Inc. |
13 |
|
|
|
Otsuka |
13 |
|
* Patents in the DNA Patent Database (www.genomic.org), which covers DNA-based patents from 1980 through the end of 1999.