Technology Hotbed · Agri & Food
Herbicides
Data as of 11 Oct 2026Methodology
Momentum: - Steady
Across fully-published filing years - the current year is still publishing and is left out of the signal.
127
Patents
0
Startups matched
28
Foreign filers
Startup counts are name-matched candidates, not ownership records - see methodology. Methodology
Where it clusters
Matched startups by state
No matched startups have surfaced a state for this technology yet - coverage is patent-only.
See herbicides on the India map → Where its patents are filed, state by state and city by city, with companies, institutes and individual inventors apart.
Filing momentum
Filings by year - recent years still publishing
| Year | Filings | Foreign |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 30 | 25 |
| 2023 | 22 | 20 |
| 2024 | 32 | 31 |
| 2025 | 21 | 18 |
| 2026partial | 15 | 12 |
Patents publish ~18 months after they're filed, so the current year is always incomplete. The Rising / Steady / Cooling signal ignores it and compares only fully-published years - read a dip in the latest year as data still coming in, not a decline.
Who's filing
Indian companies lead - institutes & foreign kept separate
Top inventors in this technology
The most prolific inventors filing in this technology, each linking to their full patent history.