* 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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Number of China Mobile patents by filing year and legal status worldwide 1999-2019
China Mobile filed a total of patent families in 2018. The second largest number of patents was filed in 2017 with filings in total. Of those filings ** families are inactive now, while 1728 families filed are waiting for full protection as of October 15, 2020. The timeline is based on data provided by.
China Mobile is a state-owned telecommunication company with over *** million subscribers as of 2019.
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