Caltech #2 in “race”

Caltech had the second-greatest number of U.S. patents among national universities in 2003, the Sacramento Business Journal reported February 12. According to preliminary figures released by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Caltech was awarded 139 patents, second only to the nine combined campuses of the University of California, which received a total of 439 patents. MIT, the University of Texas, and Stanford were third, fourth, and fifth, with 127, 96, and 85 patents, respectively. Rounding out the top 10 were the University of Wisconsin (84 patents); Johns Hopkins (70); the University of Michigan (63); Columbia (61); and Cornell and the University of Florida (59 each).
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