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Last week, the US Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) published its annual ranking of the top 300 entities that were granted the most patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in the past year. Readers familiar with the patent market will likely not be surprised to learn that IBM has topped the list – as it has done for much of the past three decades. ‘Big Blue’ was awarded 7,440 US patents in 2015 – a drop of 0.5% from its 2014 haul. Second place was taken by South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, which was issued 5,059 patents (+2.5% on 2014), while in third was