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Top 10 Universities for 2002 Patents Identified
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has posted a preliminary list of the 10 U.S. universities receiving the most patents for inventions during calendar year 2002. The University of California tops the list for the ninth consecutive year. The table below also presents the school's 2001 ranking and total.
Preliminary Rank
in 2002* Preliminary #
Patents in 2002* Organization 2001
Rank 2001 # of
Patents 1 431 University of California** 1 402 2 135 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2 125 3 109 California Institute of Technology 3 124 4 104 Stanford University 5 84 5 93 University of Texas 4 89 6 81 Johns Hopkins University 6 80 7 81 University of Wisconsin 7 73 8 55 State University of New York 17 41 9 50 Pennsylvania State University 11 52 10 49 Michigan State University 18 39
* These are preliminary patent counts and are subject to correction. The final listing of patent counts for U.S. universities in 2002 should be available in late December of 2003.
** Includes all campuses.