In 2014, Vodafone filed in total 101 patent families. In 2016, the company filed 27 patent families of which 17 were still waiting for full protection as of February 6, 2019. The timeline is based on data provided by PatentSight.
Vodafone was founded on September 16, 1991 by the demerger from Racal Electronics. Vodafone Group plc is a internationally operating telecommunications company that has its head office in London.
Number of Vodafone patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1998 to 2018, by legal status
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* 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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LexisNexis PatentSight. (February 6, 2020). Number of Vodafone patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1998 to 2018, by legal status [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 28, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1094934/number-of-vodafone-patents-by-filing-year-and-status-worldwide/
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