Cal Berkeley leads all US schools in patents for 12th straight year!

UC leads patent list for 12th year, Stanford moves up to No. 4 East Bay Business Times - 11:11 AM PDT Friday The University of California was the school with the most patents for the 12th straight year in 2005 and Stanford University moved up to No. 4 The annual ranking by the United States Patent and Trademark office showed the University of California with 390 patents for inventions, down from its 424 from 2004. Stanford University received 90 patents in 2005, up from 75 the previous year, placing it in a tie for fourth place with the University of Texas, whose total dropped from 101 in 2004. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, whose patent total dropped to 101 from 135, was passed as No. 2 on the 2005 ranking by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose total rose to 136 from 132. In order, the top 10 included the University of California, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CalTech, Stanford, the University of Texas, the University of Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Michigan tied for sixth, University of Florida and Columbia University. http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastb...ml?jst=b_ln_hl>