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Companies with the most patent applications in digital communications 2018
Companies with the most patent applications in the field of digital communications filed at the European Patent Office in 2018
by Daniel Clark,
last edited
Mar 14, 2019
This statistic shows the companies with the most patent applications in the digital communications field filed with the European Patent Office (EPO) in 2018. the Chinese company Huawai filed 1,535 patent applications, the largest number of digital communications patent applications with the EPO in 2018. Second and third were Ericsson and Qualcomm with 1,117 and 785 patent applications respectively.
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by Daniel Clark,
last edited
Mar 14, 2019
This statistic shows the companies with the most patent applications in the digital communications field filed with the European Patent Office (EPO) in 2018. the Chinese company Huawai filed 1,535 patent applications, the largest number of digital communications patent applications with the EPO in 2018. Second and third were Ericsson and Qualcomm with 1,117 and 785 patent applications respectively.
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