Same as the international market, Samsung once again tops the list of leading patent filers in the US. Samsung Electronics captures most of the patent filing space in US with a total number of patent applications filed at 8556, out of which, 670 got awarded by a grant status by the patent office. Qualcomm, a major player in chip manufacturing, comes at #2 in the list of leading patent filers in 2021. Qualcomm has filed a total of 6211 patents in US in 2021. Following Qualcomm, Canon, Huawei, and Toyota secured the #3, #4 and #5 position respectively.
However, if we talk about China, the biggest player of patent filing in 2021, companies like State Grid, Gree Electric, and Haier came out as top 3 players securing a ranking of #1, #2, and #3 respectively. Huawei, Zhejiang University Zju, Boe Tech Group, Tencent Tech., VIVO Mobile, and Tsinghua University follows the list further.
In Japan, Panasonic IP Man is securing the #1 position in patent filing with a total number of filings at 2513 in year 2021. Sanyo Product and Sony Group is securing #2 and #3 positions as leading patent filers in Japan. CANON, Fujifilm, Denso, Murata Manufacturing, Semiconductor Energy Lab, Mitsubishi Electric follows the leading list further.
The 4th major patent filing country, i.e., Korea has its own list of top patent filing companies with “Samsung” leading the list by securing a position of #1 with a total number of patent filings at 6575. Sanyo product is followed by LG with a total number of filings at 5324 from its various subsidiaries. Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute, Taiwan Semiconductor, Korea Electric Power, And Tokyo Electron follows the list further.
