Ricoh included in Top 100 Global Innovators List

Ricoh Company has been named to the 2014 Top 100 Global Innovators list by Thomson Reuters, one of the world’s leading sources of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators Award honors companies that lead global business by protecting the creative ideas of inventions through intellectual property rights and transforming them into successful forms of business. Analysis of data for the past five years is conducted based on four principal criteria: overall patent volume, patent grant success rate, global reach of the portfolio, and patent influence as evidenced by citations. Ricoh was selected on account of its high scores for the patent grant success rate, which shows the percentage of all patent applications that were successfully registered, and the global reach of the portfolio, which indicates a balance in the patents acquired in the four major markets of China, the United States, Europe, and Japan. Ricoh India is a leading global player in the area of imaging solutions like Digital Plain Paper Copiers, Colour Plain Paper Copiers, Colour & Mono Lazer Printers, Fax machines, Thermal paper etc.