European Patent Office
In 2018 the European Patent Office received 174,317 European patent applications, a healthy 4.6% increase on the previous year. Of this figure, a record-high 127,625 patents were granted. The top five countries by filing numbers remained unchanged from 2017 – the United States, Germany, Japan, France and China, in that order. However, a new company sits atop the applicants list: German conglomerate Siemens submitted just eight more patent applications in 2018 than last year’s number one filer, Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei. Broken down by technical field, the figures show notable increases in the number of patent applications for pharmaceuticals (up 13.9% from 2017), biotechnology (+12.1%) and measurement instruments (+9.3%). These are counterbalanced by a reduction in basic communications process (-10.3%), organic fine chemistry (-3.6%) and machine tools (-2.4%) patent applications.
Firms
- Carpmaels & Ransford LLP
- D Young & Co LLP
- Grünecker
- HOFFMANN EITLE
- Maiwald
- Marks & Clerk LLP
- Mewburn Ellis LLP
- Vossius & Partner Patentanwälte Rechtsanwälte mbB
- Bardehle Pagenberg Partnerschaft mbB
- Boehmert & Boehmert
- Boult Wade Tennant LLP
- Cohausz & Florack
- Dehns
- Gill Jennings & Every LLP
- JA Kemp
- Kilburn & Strode LLP
- AWA
- Cabinet Beau de Loménie
- Hoyng Rokh Monegier
- NLO
- Potter Clarkson LLP
- Uexküll & Stolberg
- Venner Shipley LLP
- VO Patents & Trademarks
- Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff
- ZBM Patents & Trademarks
- Zimmermann & Partner Patentanwälte mbB
Individuals
- Anthony Albutt - D Young & Co LLP
- Agustín Alconada - ABG Abogados
- Juan Arias - ABG Abogados
- Peter Arrowsmith - Gill Jennings & Every LLP
- Anna Barlocci - ZBM Patents & Trademarks
- Thorsten Bausch - HOFFMANN EITLE
- Koen Bijvank - Brinkhof
- Dirk Buhler - Maiwald
- Arwed A Burrichter - Cohausz & Florack
- Eva Carlsson - AWA
- Arnie Clarke - Gill Jennings & Every LLP
- Paul Clarkson - NLO
- Kristina Cornish - Kilburn & Strode LLP
- Philip Cupitt - Marks & Clerk LLP
- Christopher Davies - Dehns
- Ann De Clercq - De Clercq & Partners
- Paul Derry - Venner Shipley LLP
- Grégoire Desrousseaux - August Debouzy
- Peter Finnie - Gill Jennings & Every LLP
- Kirk Gallagher - D Young & Co LLP
- Morten Garberg - HOFFMANN EITLE
- Sian Gill - Venner Shipley LLP
- Hugh Goodfellow - Carpmaels & Ransford LLP
- Peter Hale - Haley Guiliano LLP
- Norbert Hansen - Maiwald
- Adrian Hayes - Boult Wade Tennant LLP
- Johannes Heselberger - Bardehle Pagenberg Partnerschaft mbB
- Willem A Hoyng - Hoyng Rokh Monegier
- Hans-Rainer Jaenichen - Vossius & Partner Patentanwälte Rechtsanwälte mbB
- Reinhard Knauer - Grünecker
- Jordi Kox - EP&C BV
- Simon Kremer - Mewburn Ellis LLP
- Johannes Lang - Bardehle Pagenberg Partnerschaft mbB
- Cameron Marshall - Carpmaels & Ransford LLP
- Nick McLeish - Boult Wade Tennant LLP
- Heinz-Peter Muth - Uexküll & Stolberg
- Benedikt Neuburger - Zimmermann & Partner Patentanwälte mbB
- Will Nieuwenhuys - Marks & Clerk LLP
- François Pochart - August Debouzy
- Leo Polz - HOFFMANN EITLE
- Gwilym Roberts - Kilburn & Strode LLP
- Rainer Rothinger - Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff
- Lucy Samuels - Gill Jennings & Every LLP
- Frits Schut - VO Patents & Trademarks
- Rohan P Setna - Boult Wade Tennant LLP
- Magnus Stiebe - BALDER
- Joseph P Taormino - HOFFMANN EITLE
- Hein van den Heuvel - Patentwerk BV
- Rainer Viktor - Vossius & Partner Patentanwälte Rechtsanwälte mbB
- James Ward - Haseltine Lake LLP
- Jeremy Webster - Mewburn Ellis LLP
- Aylsa Williams - D Young & Co LLP
- Simon Wright - JA Kemp