Recently the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
published a list of the fifty companies which filed the highest
number of patents for 2014. Not surprisingly, the list was headed
by companies in the United States (28.6% of total filings), Japan
(19.7%) and China (11.9%). However, it should be highlighted that
among the top 50 spots was the placement of a higher learning
institution, which is The University of California System, with a
total of 413 applications filed, placing it at spot 47 of the above
mentioned list.
The World Intellectual Property Organization also included a
list geared at the universities which filed the highest number of
PCT applications in the last year. As can be easily assumed, the
University of California System headed this list, and the nine
spots below it were taken by The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (234), the University of Texas System (154), Harvard
University (147), Johns Hopkins University (135),
