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Top Patenting Organizations Rely on IEEE Research
Today's corporations continue to deliver new patented technologies at an ever-increasing pace, and by far the most-cited publisher in new patents is IEEE, according to recent studies by 1790 Analytics LLC.
The most recent report examines patents filed with the U.S. Patent Office between 1997-2011 by the year's 25 top-patenting organizations. The report revealed that IEEE journals and conference proceedings received over 154,000 patent citations—more than three times the number of citations of any other publisher.
Top 20 Publishers Referenced Most Frequently by Top 25 Patenting Organizations
The current study shows that referencing to IEEE papers in patents has increased 546% since 1997, and that patents which reference IEEE are in turn cited more often by subsequent patents than those that do not reference IEEE.
Source: 1790 Analytics LLC, Copyright 2012.
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"Analysis of Patent Referencing to IEEE Papers, Conferences and Standards 1997-2011" (PDF, 631 KB), 1790 Analytics LLC, 2 April 2012
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