Global: number of BP patent filings by legal status 1998-2018

In 2018, BP P.L.C. filed a total of 61 patent families. The largest number of patents was filed in 1999 with 134 filings in total. Large amounts of patent families filed by the company in the twenty year period covered here have by now gone inactive and are no longer protected. The timeline is based on data provided by PatentSight.
BP PLC is a multinational oil and gas company based in London, England. In 2019, BP was the fourth largest oil and gas company in the world, measured by revenue. If you would like to see more information about the industry you can get a selection of the most relevant statistics in our Big oil report.

Number of BP Plc patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1998 to 2018, by legal status

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Release date

January 2020

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Worldwide

Survey time period

January 16, 2020

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 first filing for a patent to get published, the data for the year 2018 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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