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5/27/2009 8:47:55 AM

Despite the systemic muddle, anyone who ranks in Edison’s class has lived a remarkable life. I wanted to interview the top 10 living patent holders worldwide—ranked here in order of their number of U.S. patents


Despite the systemic muddle, anyone who ranks in Edison’s class has lived a remarkable life. I wanted to interview the top 10 living patent holders worldwide—ranked here in order of their number of U.S. patents—in the hope of gaining some insight into the creative spark behind invention. But first I had to find out who they are. Astoundingly, the patent office does not keep such a list. No one does. At the request of Condé Nast Portfolio, the Patent Board, a Chicago patent research and advisory firm, ran the query and came back with the namesprint
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