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NTT Receives Award from the Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global Innovators Program

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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT, Tokyo) has received an award from the Thomson Reuters 2011 Top 100 Global Innovators program [1], [2]. This program launched by Thomson Reuters (New York) is an initiative that analyzes patent data and related metrics using a proprietary methodology to identify the companies and institutions that lead the world in innovation. The methodology is based on four principal criteria: patent approval success rate*1, global reach of patent portfolio*2, patent influence in literature citations*3, and overall patent volume. Thomson Reuters state that “being recognized as a Top 100 Global Innovator … confirms an organization’s commitment to progressing innovation globally, to the protection of ideas and to the commercialization of inventions.”

NTT understands that this award certifies that its R&D activities are pioneering and its inventions are valuable in the global market. It will make every effort to promote patent acquisition based on the outputs of R&D activities and make the most use of owning intellectual properties.


Haruhiko Kojima (left), Managing Director, NTT Intellectual Property Center, receiving a trophy from Masaki Nagao (right), Managing Director, Thomson Reuters Professional KK, a Thomson Reuters Company.

*1 Patent approval success rate: the ratio of published applications to granted patents over the most recent three years.
*2 Global reach of patent portfolio: the metric calculated by using the number of innovative patents that have quadrilateral patents (China, Europe, Japan, and the USA). An innovative patent is defined as the first publication in a patent document of a new technology etc.
*3 Patent influence in literature citations: the metric determined by counting citations to each organization's patents over the most recent five years, excluding self-citations.

References

[1] NTT Technical Review.
https://www.ntt-review.jp/archive/ntttechnical.php?contents=ntr201201ext.html
[2] Thomson Reuters Names World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies
http://thomsonreuters.com/content/press_room/legal/515197

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