In 2020, The South Korean company Samsung filed the most patent applications with the EPO, at over 3.2 thousand. The Chinese company Huawei had the second highest number of patents, at just over 3.1 thousand.
Companies with the most patent applications filed at the European Patent Office in 2020
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