The August 7, 2007, issue of The Wall Street Journal Patent Scorecard ranks Wyeth (Madison, NJ, www.wyeth.com) first among 35 global pharmaceutical companies evaluated for patent-based intellectual property (IP).
The August 7, 2007, issue of The Wall Street Journal Patent Scorecard ranks Wyeth (Madison, NJ, www.wyeth.com) first among 35 global pharmaceutical companies evaluated for patent-based intellectual property (IP). Pfizer, Inc. (New York, NY, www.pfizer.com) took the second position and Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, NJ, www.jnj.com) was ranked third, with Bristol-Myers Squib (New York, NY, www.bms.com) and Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland, www.novartis.com) following close behind at numbers four and five.
The indicators used for measuring patent-based IP included patents granted; quality of patents; science strength, or the degree to which a company’s patent portfolio is linked to core science; research intensity, a comparative measure of the level of basic research; and innovation cycle time.