In 2018, Snap Inc. filed in total 74 patent families. This was the largest number of patents the company ever filed in a year and so far the only year in which the company filed more than 50 patents. Of those filings, two patent families have since gone inactive while 17 families filed awaited full protection. The timeline is based on data provided by PatentSight.
Founded originally in 2011, Snap Inc. (formerly Snapchat Inc.) is a camera and social media company which operates the social media platform Snapchat. The company also produces Spectacles, a brand of smart glasses that can be used to record footage for Snapchat with the inbuilt camera system.
Number of Snap Inc. patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1995 to 2019, by legal status
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Number of Snap Inc. patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1995 to 2019, 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 and 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. (April 16, 2020). Number of Snap Inc. patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1995 to 2019, by legal status [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 24, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1112568/number-of-snap-patents-by-filing-year-and-status-worldwide/
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LexisNexis PatentSight. (2020). Number of Snap Inc. patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1995 to 2019, by legal status. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1112568/number-of-snap-patents-by-filing-year-and-status-worldwide/
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