* 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 and 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 Snap Inc. patents by filing year and legal status worldwide 1995-2019
In 2018, Snap Inc. filed in total ** patent families. This was the largest number of patents the company ever filed in a year and so far the only year in which the company filed more than ** patents. Of those filings, two patent families have since gone inactive while ** families filed awaited full protection. The timeline is based on data provided by.
Founded originally in 2011, Snap Inc. (formerly Snapchat Inc.) is a camera and social media company which operates the social media platform Snapchat. The company also produces Spectacles, a brand of smart glasses that can be used to record footage for Snapchat with the inbuilt camera system.
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