What did the patent landscape of India look like in 2021?

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What did the patent landscape of India look like in 2021? 

What did the patent landscape of India look like in 2021?

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 India in 2021 

Publication Type 

Simple Legal Status 

Legal State 

Count of Publications 

APPLICATION 

PENDING 

PUBLISHED 

47665 

UNDETERMINED 

UNDETERMINED 

482 

PATENT 

ACTIVE 

GRANTED 

27740 

UNDETERMINED 

UNDETERMINED 

482 

DEAD 

EXPIRED 

482 

DESIGN 

ACTIVE 

GRANTED 

11168 

DEAD 

EXPIRED 

482 

 

Technology Domain wise Patent Trend in India in 2021 

What did the patent landscape of India look like in 2021?

The chart above distributes patents filed in India in 2021 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 players in the domain with their forward citation frequency 

The table below depicts the inventions of the top players in the domain with their forward citation frequency. This helps to understand the strength of the portfolio of top players as players whose patents are most frequently cited have a strong group of core patents in this domain. 

Publication Year   

 2021  

Citation Count Range   

0 – 2   

3-9   

10-19  

20 – 39   

40 – *   

Samsung electronics   

1390   

0   

0   

0   

0   

Qualcomm   

1287   

0   

0   

0   

0   

Huawei tech   

1118   

0   

0   

0   

0   

Honda motor   

662   

0   

0   

0   

0   

Telefonaktiebolaget lm ericsson publ   

641   

0   

0   

0   

0   

Koninklijke philips   

508   

0   

0   

0   

0   

Microsoft tech licensing   

499   

0   

0   

0   

0   

Lovely professional university   

492   

0   

0   

0   

0   

Mesbro tech   

462   

0   

0   

0   

0   

Guangdong oppo mobile telecommunications   

454   

0   

0   

0   

0 

 

Who were the leading Patent Filers of 2021 in India? 

What did the patent landscape of India look like in 2021?

IPC Classification wise Patent trend in India in 2021 

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 

PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES (A61K) 

7457 

2312 

31 

ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (G06F) 

6803 

1800 

26 

TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (H04L) 

6400 

1855 

29 

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (H04W) 

6276 

1900 

30 

DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION (A61B) 

3815 

709 

19 

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) 

3517 

343 

10 

PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION (H04N) 

3477 

718 

21 

INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (G01N) 

3043 

731 

24 

HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS (C07D) 

2703 

1041 

39 

PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSION OF CHEMICAL ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY (H01M) 

2049 

371 

18 

 

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