Global: number of Tencent patent filings by legal status 2001-2022

Tencent filed a total of 7,841 patent families in 2020. The filings for 2021 and 2022 are lower than this peak. However, for both years the numbers are still subject to change and may increase. The timeline is based on data provided by PatentSight.
Founded in 1998, Tencent was the largest listed internet company in China based on market valuation in 2022.

Number of Tencent patent families* worldwide by filing year from 2001 to 2022, by legal status

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Release date

April 2023

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2001 to December 31, 2022

Supplementary notes

* 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 the first filing for a patent to get published, the data for the years 2021 and 2022 are 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 name changes, and 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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