Global: number of Alphabet (Google) patent filings by legal status 1999-2019| ��ƽ��

Number of Alphabet (Google) patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1999 to 2019, by legal status

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August 2020

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Worldwide

Survey time period

August 13, 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 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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In 2018, Alphabet (Google) filed in total patent families. The largest number of patents was filed in 2012 with total filings. Since then, the number of filings has sharply declined to less than a third of that in 2018. The timeline is based on data provided by.
Alphabet is the holding company created through a restructuring of Google in 2015, as a result becoming its parent company.