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Non-educational filers ranked by their patent portfolio. Grant rate and lapsed share expose where high filing volume is not matched by granted patents. Domestic filers lead - toggle to foreign applicants to see who is entering the Indian market.
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Why this page exists - and how to read it
Filing volume and IP quality are different things. This leaderboard ranks non-educational filers by portfolio, but the grant-rate and lapsed sorts are where the judgement lives: they separate companies whose filings survive examination from those accumulating paper.
- Investors
- High grant rate on steady filing usually means a real R&D engine; big volume with a high lapsed share is a red flag worth asking about.
- Founders & operators
- These are the incumbents and potential acquirers in your space - open a filer to see the walls you'd build against.
- Corporate & R&D
- Benchmark competitors' portfolios and grant rates; toggle to foreign to watch who is entering the Indian market.
💬 The grant-rate sort applies a 20-filing floor so tiny portfolios can't top the list.
3,940 foreign filers with 5+ patents · page 1 · the top 500 are listed
| # | Filer | Patents↓ | Granted↓ | Lapsed↓ | Pending↓ | Active |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | QUALCOMM | 12,176 | 1,57913% | 152 | 10,445 | 2010 - 2026 |
| 2 | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS | 7,678 | 3,93051.2% | 29 | 3,719 | 2011 - 2026 |
| 3 | HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES | 4,806 | 3,11664.8% | 102 | 1,588 | 2010 - 2026 |
| 4 | NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES | 2,781 | 28710.3% | 18 | 2,476 | 2017 - 2026 |
| 5 | 2,733 | 1,19243.6% | 53 | 1,488 | 2012 - 2026 | |
| 6 | LG ENERGY SOLUTION | 2,607 | 42616.3% | 1 | 2,180 | 2009 - 2026 |
| 7 | BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE | 2,467 | 88936% | 15 | 1,563 | 2016 - 2026 |
| 8 | MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING | 2,401 | 1,50762.8% | 81 | 813 | 2010 - 2026 |
| 9 | APPLE | 2,373 | 90037.9% | 23 | 1,450 | 2013 - 2026 |
| 10 | TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON PUBL | 2,300 | 1,25554.6% | 110 | 935 | 2004 - 2026 |
| 11 | JFE STEEL | 1,569 | 51332.7% | 5 | 1,051 | 2012 - 2026 |
| 12 | LG ELECTRONICS | 1,473 | 59640.5% | 20 | 857 | 2012 - 2026 |
| 13 | GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS | 1,327 | 81061% | 40 | 477 | 2016 - 2026 |
| 14 | HONDA MOTOR | 1,326 | 60845.9% | 13 | 705 | 2010 - 2026 |
| 15 | ROBERT BOSCH | 1,248 | 22017.6% | 66 | 962 | 2012 - 2026 |
| 16 | SUZUKI MOTOR | 1,221 | 43335.5% | 2 | 786 | 2007 - 2025 |
| 17 | NIPPON STEEL | 1,215 | 42334.8% | 6 | 786 | 2005 - 2026 |
| 18 | BASF SE | 1,155 | 21618.7% | 153 | 786 | 2009 - 2026 |
| 19 | VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION | 1,113 | 83374.8% | 4 | 276 | 2019 - 2026 |
| 20 | INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS | 1,084 | 12111.2% | 0 | 963 | 2015 - 2026 |
| 21 | ZTE | 1,083 | 46943.3% | 18 | 596 | 2006 - 2026 |
| 22 | KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS | 933 | 27329.3% | 105 | 555 | 2017 - 2026 |
| 23 | MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC | 904 | 50255.5% | 75 | 327 | 2015 - 2026 |
| 24 | MERCEDES BENZ GROUP | 831 | 30.4% | 27 | 801 | 2013 - 2024 |
| 25 | ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES | 703 | 27038.4% | 17 | 416 | 2013 - 2026 |
| 26 | DAIKIN INDUSTRIES | 694 | 30944.5% | 12 | 373 | 2014 - 2026 |
| 27 | PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF AMERICA | 670 | 30245.1% | 9 | 359 | 2014 - 2026 |
| 28 | DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES | 662 | 16825.4% | 20 | 474 | 2011 - 2026 |
| 29 | UNILEVER GLOBAL IP | 659 | 18327.8% | 48 | 428 | 2013 - 2026 |
| 30 | BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP | 601 | 35559.1% | 3 | 243 | 2015 - 2026 |
| 31 | ORACLE INTERNATIONAL | 587 | 27246.3% | 1 | 314 | 2007 - 2026 |
| 32 | MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA | 584 | 25443.5% | 5 | 325 | 2011 - 2024 |
| 33 | CANON | 566 | 13624% | 10 | 420 | 2014 - 2026 |
| 34 | SIGNIFY HOLDING | 546 | 32759.9% | 54 | 165 | 2014 - 2026 |
| 35 | INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS | 526 | 438.2% | 1 | 482 | 2012 - 2026 |
| 36 | ETHICON | 474 | 44293.2% | 10 | 22 | 2013 - 2026 |
| 37 | NEC | 471 | 23149% | 57 | 183 | 2013 - 2026 |
| 38 | INTEL | 455 | 26858.9% | 16 | 171 | 2011 - 2026 |
| 39 | SAMSUNG DISPLAY | 449 | 15233.9% | 0 | 297 | 2014 - 2026 |
| 40 | BECTON DICKINSON AND | 432 | 24055.6% | 0 | 192 | 2012 - 2026 |
| 41 | LG DISPLAY | 432 | 13731.7% | 0 | 295 | 2016 - 2025 |
| 42 | CISCO TECHNOLOGY | 428 | 14734.3% | 0 | 281 | 2013 - 2026 |
| 43 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES | 421 | 22152.5% | 3 | 197 | 2012 - 2026 |
| 44 | OLA ELECTRIC MOBILITY | 412 | 12630.6% | 24 | 262 | 2019 - 2026 |
| 45 | LENOVO BEIJING | 409 | 4511% | 1 | 363 | 2017 - 2026 |
| 46 | SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION | 399 | 5012.5% | 37 | 312 | 2019 - 2026 |
| 47 | NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY | 395 | 10526.6% | 0 | 290 | 2020 - 2026 |
| 48 | ARCELORMITTAL | 394 | 15338.8% | 0 | 241 | 2016 - 2026 |
| 49 | CILAG INTERNATIONAL | 378 | 4511.9% | 178 | 155 | 2021 - 2026 |
| 50 | EVONIK OPERATIONS | 372 | 9024.2% | 28 | 254 | 2012 - 2026 |
Educational institutes are excluded - see the institute leaderboard. Attribution is by patent assignee record; a jointly-owned patent is credited to each co-owner, so a co-filed patent counts for every company on it. "Lapsed" = abandoned, withdrawn, deemed-withdrawn or refused; "Pending" = awaiting examination or in prosecution. Want to filter by technology or value category? Browse the filer explorer →
Rankings use patent-registry status (grant rate, examination, claim depth) as a quality proxy - directional, not advice; see methodology. Read the ranking methodology →
Patent coverage: 4,84,093 applications, 84.4% filed 2022 onward, 96% carry AI-generated technology tags. Earlier records, back to 2004, are largely granted cases, so pre-2022 years show survivors rather than full filing volume.