What Did The Patent Landscape of Amazon Look Like?
Amazon was first founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos under the name Cadabra. Then in 1995, this website started as Amazon.com. Amazon Inc. is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington, which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Amazon has a total of 30837 patents globally. Out of 30837 patents, 16803 patents are active.
Have a look at some of the most well-known patents held by Amazon that we have covered in this article. You can also get information on Amazon’s patents, the global patent filing activity country wise, its historical patent filing trends, and many more statistics regarding Amazon’s patent portfolio.
What Did The Patent Landscape of Amazon 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 Amazon
Publication Type | Simple Legal Status | Legal State | Count of Publications |
PATENT | ACTIVE | GRANTED | 8575 |
DEAD | NON-PAYMENT | 910 | |
CEASED | 220 | ||
EXPIRED | 68 | ||
PENDING | EXAMINATION | 68 | |
APPLICATION | ACTIVE | GRANTED | 981 |
DEAD | LAPSED | 274 | |
DISCONTINUATION | 211 | ||
WITHDRAWN | 68 | ||
NON-PAYMENT | 68 | ||
EXPIRED | 68 | ||
REJECTED | 68 | ||
CEASED | 68 | ||
ABANDONED | 68 | ||
PENDING | EXAMINATION | 171 | |
PUBLISHED | 68 | ||
DESIGN | ACTIVE | GRANTED | 389 |
DEAD | EXPIRED | 68 | |
UTILITY MODEL | ACTIVE | GRANTED | 68 |
DEAD | NON-PAYMENT | 68 | |
DOUBLE | 68 | ||
OTHERS | ACTIVE | GRANTED | 68 |
Technology Domain-wise Patent Trend in Amazon
The chart above distributes patents filed till 2021 in Amazon 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-6029141-A | 597 | 916 | 732 | 401 | 231 | 2877 |
US-6266649-B1 | 180 | 424 | 517 | 359 | 111 | 1591 |
US-6006225-A | 200 | 345 | 480 | 214 | 39 | 1278 |
US-6064980-A | 202 | 332 | 381 | 157 | 28 | 1100 |
US-6853982-B2 | 38 | 226 | 335 | 207 | 51 | 857 |
US-20070156842-A1 | 1 | 61 | 314 | 350 | 113 | 839 |
US-6360254-B1 | 161 | 247 | 200 | 145 | 56 | 809 |
US-20150120094-A1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 497 | 165 | 671 |
US-6199079-B1 | 106 | 207 | 190 | 104 | 27 | 634 |
US-8224971-B1 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 412 | 143 | 612 |
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IPC Classification Wise Patent Trend in Amazon
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) | 5985 | 5175 | 86 |
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (H04L) | 3155 | 2671 | 85 |
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) | 1740 | 1408 | 81 |
PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION (H04N) | 890 | 794 | 89 |
SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING (G10L) | 694 | 588 | 85 |
RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS (G06K) | 660 | 591 | 90 |
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (H04W) | 509 | 423 | 83 |
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL (G06T) | 500 | 446 | 89 |
COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS (G06N) | 448 | 384 | 86 |
ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (G09G) | 239 | 205 | 86 |
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