For those interested, the 10 companies in Japan
with most Kokai published in 1999 were
10920 Matsushita Electric
9604 Toshiba
9447 Canon
9175 Hitachi
8022 Sony
7712 NEC
5965 Mitsubishi Electric
5035 Ricoh
4420 Sanyo Electric
3876 Fujitsu
The top "non-Japanese" companies were
Rank No. Company
84 652 IBM
93 560 Lucent Technologies
109 512 Hewlett Packard
122 468 Eastman Kodak
125 461 Xerox
161 360 Siemens
173 327 General Electric
230 243 Bosch
258 201 Texas Instruments
There were 54 companies with 1000 or more Kokai
in 1999, 462 with more than 100, and 758 with more than 50.
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