What Did The Patent Landscape of Portugal Look Like?

What Did the Patent Landscape of Portugal 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 Portugal in 2021

Publication Type	Simple Legal Status	Legal State	Count of Publications
PATENT	ACTIVE	GRANTED	5205
PATENT	DEAD	EXPIRED	30
APPLICATION	PENDING	PUBLISHED	163
APPLICATION	ACTIVE	GRANTED	97
UTILITY MODEL	ACTIVE	GRANTED	59

Technology Domain-Wise Patent Trends in Portugal in 2021

The chart above distributes patents filed in Portugal 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 – *
ERICSSON TELEFON	61	0	0	0	0
NESTLE	43	0	0	0	0
GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS	38	0	0	0	0
NOVARTIS	36	0	0	0	0
INSTITUTE SUPERIOR TECNICO	31	0	0	0	0
REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS	30	0	0	0	0
UNIVERSITY AVEIRO	27	0	0	0	0
CENTRE NAT RECH SCIENT	24	0	0	0	0
QUALCOMM	23	0	0	0	0
BOSCH TERMOTECNOLOGIA	22	0	0	0	0

Who were the Leading Patent Filers of 2021 in the Portugal?

IPC Classification-Wise Patent Trends in Portugal 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)	1322	1316	100
SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OR MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS (A61P)	773	770	100
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS (C07D)	424	421	99
PEPTIDES (C07K)	370	369	100
MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING, OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; CULTURE MEDIA (C12N)	251	245	98
INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (G01N)	166	154	93
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (H04W)	134	133	99
CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES (B65D)	131	123	94
ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS (C07C)	124	123	99
FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (A61F)	120	120	100

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