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Carbon Nanotube Patent Landscape Update

In Volume 3, Issue 4 of the Nanotechnology Law & Business Journal the carbon nanotube patent landscape was analyzed. The links below provide some updated statistics based on recent U.S. patent data. Some highlights:

- Manufacturing processes involving carbon nanotube fabrication or integration of carbon nanotubes in devices have attracted the largest amount of patent activity in the U.S. with patents related to field emission properties of nanotubes at the #2 spot, basic CNT materials at #3, electronics applications at #4, and sensor applications at #5.

- In 2007 Hon Hai Precision obtained the top spot for obtaining carbon nanotube patents followed by Samsung, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Intel, and IBM.  

Carbon Nanotube Mini-Landscape (part 1)

Carbon Nanotube Mini-Landscape (part 2)

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