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University of Pittsburgh Ranks Among Top Worldwide Universities for Issued Patents

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Mike Yeomans

The University of Pittsburgh once again ranked among the top recipients of U.S. utility patents among global universities in 2022, according to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

NAI Top 100Published annually since 2013, the report ranks the top 100 global universities named as the first assignee on utility patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Pitt ranked tied for #21 for the 2022 calendar year with 105 patents. The full report can be found here.

“As we celebrate World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, we are pleased to once again be included among the world’s leading universities for IP creation,” said Evan Facher, University of Pittsburgh Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean for Commercial Translation at Pitt’s School of Medicine. “We recognize the critical importance of intellectual property protection in creating the foundation for bringing new innovation to the world for the benefit of society. We congratulate our Pitt innovators whose ingenuity and determination to achieve impact for their discoveries drives  our consistently high IP ranking.”

Kathi Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, commented:  “As we celebrate World IP Day, I am so pleased to see this evidence of the international impact of research and innovation conducted at academic institutions around the globe.  On this special day, we at the USPTO pledge to do all we can to maintain a strong intellectual property system here at home and around the world.”

“Throughout its existence, the National Academy of Inventors has sought to quantify with hard data, the vital role research and patented technology developed at academic institutions play in our society”, Dr. Paul Sanberg, President of the Academy noted. “Nothing we do more clearly illustrates that point than this annual report.”

 

 

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