What Did The Patent Landscape of Alibaba Group Look Like?
Alibaba Group of Companies was established in 1999 by 18 people led by Jack Ma, a former Hangzhou English teacher. The company’s founders believed from the start that the Internet would level the playing field by allowing small businesses to leverage innovation and technology to grow and compete more effectively in domestic and global economies. Alibaba Group has grown into a digital ecosystem with businesses including China commerce, international commerce, local consumer services, Cainiao, cloud, digital media and entertainment, innovation initiatives, and others since launching its first website assisting small and medium-sized enterprises in China to sell internationally.
Till 2021 Alibaba has a total no of 22142 patents filed of which 8073 is active, China has filed the most patents, followed by Hong Kong and the United States, which seems reasonable given that China is Alibaba’s largest market. China appears to be the primarily focused R&D center, as well as the country of origin for Alibaba.
Have a look at some of the most well-known patents held by Alibaba that we have covered in this article. You can also get information on Alibaba’s patents, the global patent filing activity country wise, its historical patent filing trends, and many more statistics regarding Alibaba’s patent portfolio.
What Did The Patent Landscape of Alibaba Group Look Like?
This chart shows the number of applications filed and the number of grants from these applications. Grant rate is a good indicator to identify successful applications and the graph helps to understand the progress in the technology area.
Detailed Patent Portfolio of Alibaba Group
Publication Type | Simple Legal Status | Legal State | Count of Publications |
APPLICATION | PENDING | EXAMINATION | 8034 |
PUBLISHED | 2028 | ||
DEAD | REJECTED | 3511 | |
LAPSED | 676 | ||
DISCONTINUATION | 234 | ||
NON-PAYMENT | 190 | ||
WITHDRAWN | 152 | ||
EXPIRED | 122 | ||
ABANDONED | 122 | ||
ACTIVE | GRANTED | 3401 | |
PATENT | ACTIVE | GRANTED | 3349 |
DEAD | NON-PAYMENT | 148 | |
EXPIRED | 122 | ||
CEASED | 122 | ||
DISCONTINUATION | 122 | ||
PENDING | EXAMINATION | 122 | |
UTILITY MODEL | ACTIVE | GRANTED | 267 |
DEAD | NON-PAYMENT | 122 | |
EXPIRED | 122 | ||
REVOKED | 122 | ||
DOUBLE | 122 | ||
DESIGN | ACTIVE | GRANTED | 122 |
Technology Domain-wise Patent Trend in Alibaba Group
The chart above distributes patents filed till 2021 in Alibaba Group on the basis of the technology protected in patents. This helps to understand the most frequently used concepts and the key focus areas in the technology space.
Top publications in the domain with their forward citation frequency
The table below depicts the patents with most number of forward citations. These patents are likely to be the source of advancement in the domain and can be considered as valuable and core inventions.
Publication Number | Year Wise Break Down | Count of Citing Patents | ||||
< 2006 | 2006-2010 | 2011-2015 | 2016-2020 | >2020 | ||
US-5875296-A | 281 | 328 | 202 | 127 | 39 | 977 |
US-5774868-A | 176 | 196 | 212 | 78 | 41 | 703 |
US-6282653-B1 | 71 | 98 | 74 | 42 | 23 | 308 |
US-8612420-B2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 136 | 135 | 276 |
US-20040003323-A1 | 2 | 14 | 31 | 183 | 41 | 271 |
US-20130102283-A1 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 165 | 64 | 268 |
US-6477543-B1 | 58 | 119 | 60 | 14 | 2 | 253 |
US-20100138347-A1 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 137 | 70 | 220 |
US-20120131438-A1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 68 | 133 | 206 |
US-6243722-B1 | 31 | 50 | 63 | 20 | 8 | 172 |
Who were the Leading Patent Filers Companies till 2021 in Alibaba Group?
IPC Classification Wise Patent Trend in Alibaba Group
The table below represents the top 10 market domains according to their IPC classification where inventors believed it was critical to safeguard certain technical inventions.
IPC Classification | Number of Applications | Number of Granted | % Granted |
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (G06F) | 11487 | 1983 | 17 |
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (H04L) | 4472 | 995 | 22 |
DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTING PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (G06Q) | 3748 | 335 | 9 |
RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS (G06K) | 1549 | 138 | 9 |
PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION (H04N) | 1388 | 282 | 20 |
COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS (G06N) | 1024 | 47 | 5 |
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL (G06T) | 964 | 115 | 12 |
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (H04W) | 692 | 151 | 22 |
SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING (G10L) | 547 | 49 | 9 |
MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (G01C) | 410 | 74 | 18 |
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