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Various cutting-edge Toshiba Group technologies have received a high evaluation by society. Major awards include the following.
Survey results from Patolis
Ranking
Company Name Number
1 Panasonic 8,653
2 Toyota Motor 5,326
3 Canon 5,023
4 Mitsubishi Electric 4,497
5Toshiba 4,494
6 Ricoh 3,556
7 Fujitsu 3,259
8 Honda Motor 3,182
9
Sharp
3,023
10 Hitachi 2,959
Source: IFI Co. (US) data
Ranking
Company Name Number
1 IBM 6,478
2Samsung
Electronics 5,081
3 Canon 3,174
4 Sony 3,032
5 Panasonic 2,769
6Microsoft 2,613
7Toshiba 2,447
8Hon Hai Precision
Industry 2,013
9GE 1,652
10 LG Electronics 1,624
Number of patents registered in Japan (2012)
Number of patents registered in U.S. (2012)
The “superconducting hybrid
lter”, winner of the 21
st
Century Encouragement of
Invention Prize
• The 59th Okochi Memorial Grand Production Prize
“Development and practical application of electron beam lithography system to fabricate LSI circuits”
• 45th Ichimura Industrial Award
Development of superconducting send-and-receive filter that realizes
band narrowing of high-power radio equipment
•
nano tech 2013 Grand Awards Winner in the IT and Electronics category
•
National Commendation for Invention 2012 - The 21
st
Century Encouragement
of Invention Prize
Superconducting hybrid filter for high-power wireless applications
Securing and utilizing intellectual property
Number of patent registrations
1.3 times
FY2012 FY2015
Maintain Profit
U.S.
21%U.S.
27%
China
14%
China
8%
Other
5%
Other
5%
Europe
8%
Europe
3%
Japan
47%
Japan
30%
PCT *1
16%
PCT *1
16%
53% 70%
FY2012 FY2015
CY11CY10CY09CY08CY12
(2nd) (4th)
(7th) (6th)
(6th)
(5th) (7th)
(5th) (5th)
(5th)
3,255
1,6091,696
2,246 2,483 2,447
3,219
3,780 3,824
4,494
Japan U.S.
Note:  gure in parenthesis shows the Company's ranking by number of patent registrations
*1:
Patent Cooperation Treaty: System to expand applications to multiple countries based on an application in one country
(No. of countries planned for application expansion is counted)
*2:
Global application rate = No. of overseas applications / (No. of domestic applications + No. of overseas applications)
Securing intellectual property
• Strengthening global intellectual property
• Maintaining our position in the U.S. patents top 10
Utilization of intellectual property
• Realizing business superiority
• Strengthening of license earning power and
appropriate evaluations
Global application rates*2 License revenue
Awards ceremony of Okochi Memorial
Grand Production Prize
External evaluations related to intellectual property and research and development
Research & Development and Intellectual Property
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