This statistic displays the largest companies ranked by number of active cosmetic patent families owned worldwide as of July 2020. The ranking is based on data provided by PatentSight. As of July 23, L'Oreal's patent portfolio included 3,717 patent families, making the company the world's largest owner of cosmetic patents. The Japanese KAO Corporation ranked second with 2,806 families.
Largest cosmetic patent owners worldwide as of July 2020, by number of active patent families
* 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.
Cosmetic patents are defined as all patents under the International Patent Classification (IPC) or Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) groups A61K 8 and A61Q. Their subordinated groups are included i.e. A61K 8/18.
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. (July 23, 2020). Largest cosmetic patent owners worldwide as of July 2020, by number of active patent families [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 25, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1014915/worldwide-cosmetics-patent-owners/
LexisNexis PatentSight. "Largest cosmetic patent owners worldwide as of July 2020, by number of active patent families." Chart. July 23, 2020. Statista. Accessed May 25, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1014915/worldwide-cosmetics-patent-owners/
LexisNexis PatentSight. (2020). Largest cosmetic patent owners worldwide as of July 2020, by number of active patent families. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 25, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1014915/worldwide-cosmetics-patent-owners/
LexisNexis PatentSight. "Largest Cosmetic Patent Owners Worldwide as of July 2020, by Number of Active Patent Families." Statista, Statista Inc., 23 Jul 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1014915/worldwide-cosmetics-patent-owners/
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