In 2018, Philips filed in total 1,144 patent families. The largest number of patents was filed in 2005 with 2,377 total filings. The timeline is based on data provided by PatentSight. Koninklijke Philips N.V. is one the world's largest electronics companies focusing nowadays on healthcare and medical technology.
Number of Philips patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1999 to 2019, by legal status
* A patent family is defined as a group of patent documents all of which have the same set of priorities. I.e., it is a group of patent documents that protect the same invention across authorities.
** The 'In force' category covers patent families that have been granted and are active.
*** As it usually takes 18 months after first filing for a patent to get published, the data for the year 2019 is subject to change.
The owner of a patent includes all patents owned by a company and its subsidiaries (by at least 50%) based on comprehensive research on corporate structures, M&A, Spin-offs, company names changes, patent transactions. PatentSight also tracks former names of companies and subsidiaries, ongoing mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions of the past, reassignments, companies that have the same applicant, and transliterations by patent offices.
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LexisNexis PatentSight. (October 1, 2020). Number of Philips patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1999 to 2019, by legal status [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 30, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034057/number-of-philips-patents-by-filing-year-and-status-worldwide-1998-2018/
LexisNexis PatentSight. "Number of Philips patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1999 to 2019, by legal status." Chart. October 1, 2020. Statista. Accessed December 30, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034057/number-of-philips-patents-by-filing-year-and-status-worldwide-1998-2018/
LexisNexis PatentSight. (2020). Number of Philips patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1999 to 2019, by legal status. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 30, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034057/number-of-philips-patents-by-filing-year-and-status-worldwide-1998-2018/
LexisNexis PatentSight. "Number of Philips Patent Families* Worldwide by Filing Year from 1999 to 2019, by Legal Status." Statista, Statista Inc., 1 Oct 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034057/number-of-philips-patents-by-filing-year-and-status-worldwide-1998-2018/
LexisNexis PatentSight, Number of Philips patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1999 to 2019, by legal status Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034057/number-of-philips-patents-by-filing-year-and-status-worldwide-1998-2018/ (last visited December 30, 2024)
Number of Philips patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1999 to 2019, by legal status [Graph], LexisNexis PatentSight, October 1, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034057/number-of-philips-patents-by-filing-year-and-status-worldwide-1998-2018/
