Global: number of ByteDance patents by legal status 2021

In 2021, Bytedance filed 1,574 patent families. The company's patent portfolio increased significantly in 2018. The number of patent families filed in 2018 that are now in force is larger than the number of patents filed in all the years prior to 2018. The timeline is based on data provided by PatentSight.
Beijing Bytedance Technology Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company. In the West, the company is best known for its online video platform TikTok.

Number of Bytedance patent families worldwide by filing year from 2009 to 2021, by legal status

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November 2022

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Survey time period

November 14, 2022

Supplementary notes

* 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 'In force' category covers patent families that have been granted and are active.

*** As it usually takes 18 months after first filing for a patent to get published, the data for the year 2021 is subject to change.

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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