The world’s largest patent holders
The Global 250 is an Ultimate Owner ranking, providing a complete view of an entity’s global patent holdings, including patented technologies held by an entity’s subsidiaries or majority-owned companies. Rather than looking at the grants received in a single year, such as the Top 50 ranking, the Global 250 presents the cumulative and active technology holdings in an entity’s patent portfolio for a given year.
This analysis calculates the world’s largest active patent holders, including subsidiaries, as a snapshot in time as of January 2, 2020.