{"id":1031,"date":"2021-01-20T21:47:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T21:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2021-03-08T05:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T05:02:58","slug":"top-patentees-in-china-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/2021\/01\/top-patentees-in-china-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Patentees in China for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/K_M9yNhXje5VIudm9euIWA\">analysis<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/incopat.com\">Incopat<\/a>, corporate applicants accounted for about 67% of Chinese invention patents in 2020, among which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huawei.com\">Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0 is by far the leader. College and university patentees accounted for about 22% with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zju.edu.cn\/english\/\">Zhejiang University<\/a> continuing to rank number 1 for invention patents.\u00a0 The top foreign corporate patentee was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/aboutsamsung\/home\/\">Samsung Electronics<\/a> at #9. The top American corporate patentee was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qualcomm.com\">Qualcomm<\/a> at #16.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Huawei remains the top patentee in 2020 while Alibaba makes the biggest jump upward from 2019 from 14 to 8. Intel fell off the list in 2020 and Qualcomm dropped 11 in 2019 to 16 in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 20 Corporate Patentees in China for 2020 (not normalized)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 560px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\"><strong>2020 Rank<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\"><strong>2019 Rank<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\"><strong>Corporation<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\"><strong>2020 Patents<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">6393<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">OPPO Guangdong Mobile Communications Co. Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">3580<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">Sinopec<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">2921<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">BOE Technology Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">2882<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">6<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">2812<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">6<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">9<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">Zhuhai Gree Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">2677<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">7<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">2*<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">State Grid Corporation (\u56fd\u5bb6\u7535\u7f51\u516c\u53f8)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">2498<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">8<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">14<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">2098<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">9<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">7<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">Samsung Electronics<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">1824<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">10<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">13<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">Vivo Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">1686<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">11<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">8<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">Midea<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">1675<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">12<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">2*<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">State Grid Corporation of China<\/p>\n<p>(\u56fd\u5bb6\u7535\u7f51\u6709\u9650\u516c\u53f8)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">1616<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">13<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">12<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">ZTE Corporation<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">1354<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">14<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">1337<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">15<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">10<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">1166<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">16<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">11<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">Qualcomm Corporation<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">1158<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">17<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">17<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">Mitsubishi Electric Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">1156<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">18<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">15<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">Toyota Motor Corporation<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">1035<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">19<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%; height: 28px;\">China Mobile<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%; height: 28px;\">996<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">20<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 5.66665%;\">20<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 59.5%;\">SMIC<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 14.5833%;\">978<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>* State Grid patents were normalized in 2019 leading to a higher ranking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The top 3 IPC classifications for 2020 patents were G06 (calculation; calculation; counting), H04 (electric communication technology), and G01 (measurement; testing).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>G06 Top Patentees<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\"><strong>Rank<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\"><strong>Patentee<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\"><strong>2020 Patents<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">1597<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">1464<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">OPPO Guangdong Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">1343<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">1004<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">698<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">6<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">Vivo Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">691<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">7<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">Tsinghua University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">630<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">8<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">State Grid Corporation<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">570<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">9<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">\n<div><span class=\"goog-text-highlight\">Zhejiang University<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">566<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">10<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">\n<div><span class=\"goog-text-highlight\">Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">\u00a0562<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>H04 Top Patentees<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\"><strong>Rank<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\"><strong>Patentee<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\"><strong>2020 Patents<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">4880<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">OPPO Guangdong Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">2086<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">1289<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">ZTE Corporation<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">1138<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">Vivo Mobile Communications Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">970<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">6<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">Litong Co., Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">856<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">7<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">Samsung Electronics<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">811<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">8<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">789<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">9<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">China Mobile<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">786<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 9.99997%;\">10<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.4999%;\">Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 21.5%;\">654<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Chinese Patentees by Country<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China was the largest patentee of Chinese patents in 2020 with Japan, United States, Germany and South Korea following.\u00a0 Cayman Islands also made a showing in the top 10, perhaps because many Chinese companies form holding companies there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020PieChart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020PieChart.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.chinaiplawupdate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2020PieChart-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 92.1667%;\" width=\"242\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.1667%;\" width=\"114\"><strong>Rank<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 42.1666%;\" width=\"64\"><strong>Country<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.6667%;\" width=\"64\"><strong>2020 Chinese Patents<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.1667%;\">1<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 42.1666%;\">China<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.6667%;\">440696<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.1667%;\">2<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 42.1666%;\">Japan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.6667%;\">28955<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.1667%;\">3<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 42.1666%;\">US<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.6667%;\">21089<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.1667%;\">4<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 42.1666%;\">Germany<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.6667%;\">9397<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.1667%;\">5<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 42.1666%;\">Korea<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.6667%;\">9311<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.1667%;\">6<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 42.1666%;\">France<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.6667%;\">2949<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.1667%;\">7<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 42.1666%;\">Cayman Islands<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.6667%;\">2722<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.1667%;\">8<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 42.1666%;\">Switzerland<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.6667%;\">2352<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.1667%;\">9<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 42.1666%;\">Netherlands<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.6667%;\">1957<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.1667%;\">10<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 42.1666%;\">Sweden<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.6667%;\">1451<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 15.1667%;\">11<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 42.1666%;\">Other<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 34.6667%;\">9249<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Note that official 2020 patent statistics have not yet been released. We&#8217;ll report on it in the next few days but we expect a tremendous increase in all three types of Chinese patent filings in 2020 versus 2019 despite the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">According to an analysis by Incopat, corporate applicants accounted for about 67% of Chinese invention patents in 2020, among which Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.\u2019s\u00a0 is by far the leader. College and university patentees accounted for about 22% with Zhejiang University continuing to rank number 1 for invention patents.\u00a0 The top foreign corporate patentee was Samsung Electronics at #9. 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