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.
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This analysis calculates the world’s largest active patent holders, including subsidiaries, as a snapshot in time as of January 4, 2022.
This year’s Global 250 was highly affected by the addition of Chinese Snapshots to the IFI Platform and must be considered for comparisons to previous Global 250 rankings. Learn more about IFI Snapshots.