IP-related statistics from the recent past

A selection of key IP facts and figures, as reported by IAM and other sources

Table 1. Top domestic invention patent recipients in China, 2017

Rank	Patent owner	Invention patents granted
1	State Grid Corporation	3,622
2	Huawei	3,293
3	Sinopec	2,567
4	BOE	1,845
5	ZTE	1,699
6	Lenovo	1,454
7	Gree	1,273
8	Oppo	1,222
9	PetroChina	1,008
10	Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation	862

Source: State Intellectual Property Office

Figure 1. PCT patent applications handled by SIPO increased by 12.5% year on year

Source: Google Finance

Table 2. Stock performance of selected publicly traded IP-centric companies, November 2017 to January 2018

Tables 3A and 3B show the entities with the highest volume of in-bound patent assignment transactions (assignee table) and out-bound patent assignment transactions (assignor table), as recorded at the US Patent and Trademark Office. These results are calculated by aggregating the number of transactions completed by an assignee/assignor in November and December 2017.

One transaction may include multiple patents, patent families and patent portfolios. Many companies create numerous holding vehicles to house their different IP portfolios; this is why similar company names may appear multiple times in the tables.

Table 3A. Top 30 patent assignees by number of transactions, November-December 2017

#	Assignee entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company	255
2	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	247
3	National Institutes Of Health (NHS), U.S. Dept. Of Health And Human Services (DHHS), U.S. Government	171
4	Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha	107
5	LG Electronics Inc.	74
6	National Science Foundation	69
7	Dow Global Technologies LLC	60
8	Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha	56
9	Pivot Medical, Inc.	53
10	Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.	52
11	The Regents Of The University Of California	49
12	Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC	45
13	Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.	43
14	BASF SE	43
15	Google Inc.	43
16	Applied Materials, Inc.	37
17	Microsoft Corporation	37
18	International Business Machines Corporation	37
19	Nike, Inc.	36
20	Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.	36
21	Centinel Spine LLC	36
22	Massachusetts Institute Of Technology	36
23	Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin	35
24	Mann+Hummel GmbH	34
25	National Institutes Of Health - Director DEITR	33
26	Intel Corporation	31
27	Koninklijke Philips N.V.	29
28	RPX Corporation	29
29	National Institutes Of Health - Director DEITR NIH	27
30	ABB Schweiz AG	25

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)

Table 3B. Top 30 patent assignors by number of transactions, November-December 2017

#	Assignor entity	Number of assignments transacted
1	Johns Hopkins University	81
2	Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.	38
3	Case Western Reserve University	38
4	DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.	27
5	University Of Utah	16
6	MD Anderson Cancer Center	15
7	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	15
8	Pardo, Fernando	14
9	McGill, Alexandra	14
10	Lampela, Martti Johannes	14
11	Sugaya, Shunji	11
12	Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.	11
13	Dedic, Ian Juso	11
14	Wells Fargo Bank, National Association	11
15	Concert Debt, LLC	11
16	Wang, Jian-Ping	10
17	Upskill, Inc.	10
18	RadiumOne, Inc.	10
19	Kimree Hi-Tech Inc.	10
20	Internet Brands, Inc.	10
21	Chuang, Tim Dze-How	10
22	NEC Europe Ltd.	10
23	International Business Machines Corporation	10
24	University Of Pennsylvania	9
25	North Carolina State University, Raleigh	9
26	HP Printing And Computing Solutions, S.L.U.	9
27	DePuy Spine, LLC	9
28	Wave Life Sciences Japan, Inc.	9
29	Siemens Aktiengesellschaft	9
30	Madison Capital Funding LLC	9

Source: ktMINE (www.ktmine.com)

IP-related statistics from the recent past

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