* 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 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 Walt Disney patents worldwide 2020, by authority protected
As of October 2020, the Walt Disney Company owned active patent families that were protected by the U.S. patent office. The number of patents protected in the U.S. is vastly larger than the number of patents protected by other authorities. The statistic is based on data provided by.
From 2010 to 2019 the company's revenue in the United States and Canada increased from approximately ** to **** billion U.S dollars. For more information on the Walt Disney Company check out our ÌÇÐÄÆÆ½â°æ company dossier.
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