* 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 2018 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 Glaxosmithkline patents by filing year and legal status worldwide 1998-2018
Glaxosmithkline filed the largest number of patents in the year 2000 with filings. Since then the company's filings have decreased noticeably. and reached a low of *** filings in 2014, before increasing slightly in recent years. The timeline is based on data provided by.
Glaxosmithkline was founded in 2000 with the merger of Galaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham. The London based company is one of the ten biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
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