Globally, there were over 6.5 million tech patent publications between 2017 and 2021. Over this five-year period, the tech patent publications have increased at a CAGR of 8%. Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) are the top two themes driving tech patents. Patent publications have grown for all the top 10 tech themes since 2017. Patent offices in China and the US saw more tech patent publications than any other region.
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Some of the key patent holders in the technology patents market are Samsung, Huawei, IBM, Qualcomm, LG, Microsoft, Sony, Intel, Canon, Beijing Electronics, Alibaba, Tencent, and Google. Samsung has the highest number of patents since 2017. The key themes in the technology patents market are cybersecurity, AI, industrial automation, IoT, ecommerce, fintech, internet TV, healthtech, cloud, and robotics.
