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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced the top ten private sector patent recipients for the 2000 calendar year. Listed below are the ten corporations receiving the most patents for inventions in 2000, along with their ranking last year. For the eighth straight year, IBM received more utility patents than any other private sector organization. For the year, the top ten patenting organizations consist of four U.S. corporations, five Japanese corporations, and one corporation from the Republic of Korea. One U.S. corporation has been added and one Japanese corporation has been dropped from the list. The U.S. Government received 920 utility patents for the year.

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