As of October 2020, the vast majority of active Huawei patent families were protected in China. The number of patent families protected by the Chinese patent office was higher than the number of patents protected by the next five authorities combined. The statistic is based on data provided by PatentSight.
Huawei is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Guangdong, China. In 2020, Huawei was the most valuable telecom infrastructure company worldwide.
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Number of Huawei patents worldwide as of October 2020, by authority protected
* A patent family is defined as a group of patent documents all of which have the same set of priorities. I.e., it is a group of patent documents that protect the same invention across authorities.
The owner of a patent includes all patents owned by a company and its subsidiaries (by at least 50%) based on comprehensive research on corporate structures, M&A, Spin-offs, company names changes, patent transactions. PatentSight also tracks former names of companies and subsidiaries, ongoing mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions of the past, reassignments, companies that have the same applicant, and transliterations by patent offices.
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LexisNexis PatentSight. (October 22, 2020). Number of Huawei patents worldwide as of October 2020, by authority protected [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 18, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1057771/number-of-huawei-patents-globally-by-authority-protected/
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LexisNexis PatentSight. (2020). Number of Huawei patents worldwide as of October 2020, by authority protected. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: June 18, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1057771/number-of-huawei-patents-globally-by-authority-protected/
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