What did the patent landscape of South Africa 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 South Africa in 2021

Publication Type	Simple Legal Status	Legal State	Count of Publications
PATENT	ACTIVE	GRANTED	4903
DESIGN	ACTIVE	GRANTED	26

Technology Domain-wise Patent Trend in South Africa in 2021

The chart above distributes patents filed in South Africa 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 – *
UNIVERSITY ANHUI SCI & TECH	214	0	0	0	0
GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS	120	0	0	0	0
ERICSSON TELEFON	68	0	0	0	0
ARCELORMITTAL	61	0	0	0	0
UNILEVER	52	0	0	0	0
ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING	43	0	0	0	0
UNIVERSITY QINGDAO AGRICULTURAL	42	0	0	0	0
UNIVERSITY QINGDAO TECH	39	0	0	0	0
BASF	29	0	0	0	0
UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI OCEAN	29	0	0	0	0

Who were the leading Patent Filers of 2021 in South Africa?

IPC Classification wise Patent trend in South Africa 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
SMOKERS’ REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES (A24F)	31	31	100
MIXTURES OF FERTILISERS COVERED INDIVIDUALLY BY DIFFERENT SUBCLASSES OF CLASS C05; MIXTURES OF ONE OR MORE FERTILISERS WITH ADDITIVES NOT HAVING A SPECIFIC FERTILISING ACTIVITY; FERTILISERS CHARACTERISED BY THEIR FORM (C05G)	12	12	100
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (H04L)	9	9	100
CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES (A24D)	6	6	100
MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING, DISPERSING (B01F)	6	6	100
SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS (F24S)	6	6	100
ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF COMPOUNDS OR NON-METALS; APPARATUS THEREFOR (C25B)	5	5	100
PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION (H04N)	5	5	100
PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES (A61K)	4	4	100
MATERIALS FOR APPLICATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR (C09K)	3	3	100

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