As the global leader on the music streaming market, Spotify has invested heavily in research and development, creating new technologies in the area of streaming, recommendation systems, or user interface. To protect those invention, Spotify has filed a number of patents of which 614 are still active, while 213 patent families are still considered active.
Active or inactive status of Spotify patents worldwide as of July 2022
The patent count is calculated by considering all patents in the portfolio. A patent family can have multiple patents covering a single invention filed in the same or multiple countries. In general, the number of patent families used to be less than total patents due to obvious reasons.
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GreyB Research. (June 8, 2022). Active or inactive status of Spotify patents worldwide as of July 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 03, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1314439/spotify-patent-status/
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GreyB Research. (2022). Active or inactive status of Spotify patents worldwide as of July 2022. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 03, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1314439/spotify-patent-status/
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