The European Patent Office (EPO) released the patent data for the European region in 2014 on the 26th. The data shows that in 2014, the EPO received 274,174 patent applications, an increase of 3.1%. The top five countries are the United States, Japan, Germany, China, and South Korea; the United States accounts for 26% of the total, with an annual growth rate of 6.8%; China accounts for 9%, with an annual growth rate of 18.2%, the highest among all countries.

Among the applications from China, Huawei ranked first with 1,600 patent applications, followed by 476 from ZTE and 97 from Tencent. In addition, BYD, BOE Technology, China Information and Communication Research Institute, Baidu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiaomi, and Tongfang Weishi also entered the top ten. In the United States, Qualcomm ranked first with 1459 items, Intel followed closely with 1040 items. Microsoft and Google are among the top ten. Apple only applied for 294 patents in Europe. Like IBM, the focus of patent applications is placed. In the United States.

From the business of the top ten companies, hardware is also the main theme of EPO patent applications. According to EPO data, Samsung applied for 2,541 applications in 2014, the highest among all companies. Among the top 10 companies with the most patents, another Korean company, LG, ranked fourth. The top ten companies in the number of patent applications are Philips, Siemens, Huawei, Qualcomm, Bosch, Ericsson, and Intel.

In all fields of technology, the number of patent applications in the fields of medical technology, electrical machinery and instrumentation energy, digital communications, computer science, and transportation ranks in the top five. The number of applications related to medical technology was the highest, reaching 11,124, an average annual increase of 3.2%; the annual growth rate of biotechnology was the highest, reaching 12.5%; the fastest growing areas were electrical machinery and instrumentation energy, digital communication, and computer science.

The patents applied for in China are mainly concentrated in the fields of digital communication and computer science; among the patents applied for by the United States, medical technology, computer science and digital communication account for a large proportion. The distribution of patents in EU member states is relatively even, and the three major fields of electric machinery and instrument energy, medical technology and transportation are relatively prominent.

Previously, IFI CLAIMS had published patent data in the United States. The top patents were IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Google, Apple, etc. Samsung ranked second with 4952, Huawei ranked 775 with 48, and ZTE 160%. The annual growth rate is listed separately.

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