Name

Website

DPD patents*

Comments

United States Government

www.firstgov.gov

472

Includes NIH, CDC, USDA, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense

Incyte Pharmaceuticals Inc.

www.incyte.com

276

 

Chiron

www.chiron.com

264

Includes 185 Chiron, 76 Cetus, and 3 PathoGenesis patents

Glaxo SmithKline

www.glaxowellcome.co.uk

228

Includes Glaxo, Wellcome, Burroughs Wellcome, SmithKline Beecham, Beecham, Smith Kline & French

Genentech

www.gene.com

224

Does not include Hoffmann-La Roche

Amgen

www.amgen.com

185

Acquired Immunex in Dec 2001; patents include 90 Immunex patents

Aventis

www.aventis.com

178

Includes Hoechst, Marion, Roussel Uclaf, Rhone-Poulenc and Rorer

Novo-Nordisk

www.novonordisk.com

164

Does *not* include Zymogenetics (with 80), surveyed separately; de-merger to split pharma and enzyme Cos.

American Home Products

www.ahp.com

150

Includes Genetics Institute and Wyeth-Ayerst

Eli Lilly

www.lilly.com

149

 

Hoffman-La Roche

www.rocheusa.com

131

Includes Roche Holdings, Roche Research Institute, but not Genentech

Merck

www.merck.com

131

Includes Merck&Co., Merck Patent GmbH, Merck Frosst, Rhone Merieux, and Merck Sharpe & Dohme

Novartis (incl. Institute of Functional Genomics)

www.novartis.com

112

Includes Sandoz, Ciba, Geigy and combinations

Human Genome Sciences Inc.

www.hgsi.inc

106

 

Astra-Zeneca

www.astrazeneca.com

79

 

Pharmacia & Upjohn

www.pnu.com

77

Includes Pharmacia pharma, Upjohn and combinations

Schering-Plough (incl. Berlex)

www.sch~plough.com

69

Includes Berlex

PE Corp

www.pecorporation

63

Incl PE Corp, Perkin Elmer, Applied Biosystems, PerSeptive Biosystems (Celera had 0 patents by end of 1999)

Life Technologies

www.lifetech.com

58

 

Bayer

www.bayer.com

55

 

Bristol-Myers Squibb

www.bms.com

54

 

Biogen

www.biogen.com

52

 

Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc.

www.mlnm.com

49

Includes 3 as Millenium misspelled

Genzyme

www.genzyme.com

38

 

Amersham Pharmacia Biotech

www.apbiotech.com

36

 

J&J (Ortho, Janssen)

www.jnj.com

34

Includes J&J, Ortho (various) and Janssen

Boehringer Ingelheim

www.boehringer-ingelheim.com

32

 

Lynx Therapeutics Inc.

www.lynxgen.com

27

 

BASF

www.basf.com

26

 

Affymetrix Inc.

www.affymetrix.com

25

 

Diversa Corp.

www.diversa.com

20

 

Large Scale Biology Corp.

www.lsbc.com

17

Includes BioSource Technologies

Myriad Genetics Inc.

www.myriad.com

16

 

Pfizer, Inc. (see also Parke-Davis and Warner-Lambert)

www.pfizer.com

14

Includes Warner-Lambert and Parke-Davis

Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc.

www.onyx-pharm.com

13

 

Otsuka

www.otsuka.co.jp

13

 

* Patents in the DNA Patent Database (www.genomic.org), which covers DNA-based patents from 1980 through the end of 1999.