* 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 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 Petrobas patents by filing year & legal status worldwide 1998-2019
In 2018, Petrobras filed ** patent families all of them are currently pending to be granted. The timeline is based on data provided by. The largest number of patents were filed in 2005 with ** total filings. Of those filings, ** patent families have since gone inactive while * families filed that year are still waiting on full protection as of the *** of May 2020. Currently the company owns a total of *** active patent families (including those pending full protection).
Petrobras is a multinational oil and gas corporation with headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. The company is partially owned by the Brazilian government.
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LexisNexis PatentSight. (May 7, 2020). Number of Petrobras (Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.) patent families* worldwide by filing year from 1998 to 2019, by legal status [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved August 04, 2026, from /statistics/1117184/number-of-petrobas-patent-filings-globally/
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