IPO & Harrity Analytics Release List of Top 300 Patent Holders for 2021

Life Sciences "Top 55" By Donald Zuhn — Last month, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and Harrity Analytics announced the release of the 39th annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. utility patents (see "Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2021"). Patent Docs readers may recall that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office stopped releasing its annual list of top patent recipients in 2006 in order to "discourag[e] any perception that we believe more is better." As with the 2020 report, the 2021 report was compiled in collaboration with Harrity Analytics, based on data obtained from…