| Characteristic | Number of active patent families* |
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| - | - |
| - | - |
| - | - |
| - | - |
| - | - |
| - | - |
| - | - |
| - | - |
| - | - |
| - | - |
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LexisNexis PatentSight
July 2020
Worldwide
July 23, 2020
* 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.
Cosmetic patents are defined as all patents under the International Patent Classification (IPC) or Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) groups A61K 8 and A61Q. Their subordinated groups are included i.e. A61K 8/18.
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.
