As of January 2020, Samsung owned 74,746 active patent families that were protected by the South Korean patent office. The number of patents protected in the U.S. is about 3.1 percent smaller than the number of patents protected by the South Korean patent office. The statistic is based on data provided by PatentSight.
Samsung is a multinational conglomerate from South Korea and is perhaps best known for its consumer electronics division. The company owns multiple business ventures that span across a large range of industries. The company sold 78.2 million smartphones worldwide in the third quarter of 2019.
Number of Samsung patents worldwide as of January 2020, by authority protected
* 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 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. (January 16, 2020). Number of Samsung patents worldwide as of January 2020, by authority protected [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 23, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1089842/number-of-samsung-patents-globally-by-authority-protected/
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