Last Updated: 2024/03/04

APPLE INC (US Patent Analysis Report)

The Applicant / Patent Holder "APPLE INC" had 1,173 patent application filings in the most recent period (2022-01-01 to 2022-06-30). This is a with an decreasing trend transition of -244 filings (-17.2%) over 1,417 they had in the same period of the previous year (2021-01-01 to 2021-06-30).

The company had their highest number of filings in 2020 with 3,259 cases, and their lowest number in 2017 with 2,314 cases.

The mean of the number of filings over the last 5 years (2018 to 2023, 15,836 cases in total) is 2,639, and the median is 2,620. The coefficient of variation (standard deviation/mean) is 0.13, and there have been small fluctuations in the number of filings from year to year.

Filing information for the last 5 years (2018 to 2023)
Index Value
Average 2,639 patents
Std Dev 355
COV 0.13

Filing trends for the last 3 years
Year Cases YOY
2022 year 2,524 cases -5.18 %
2021 year 2,662 cases -18.32 %
2020 year 3,259 cases +18.21 %

This report provides the latest patent analysis information (the IP landscape, including a patent map) on the patent search results of the US patent database for APPLE INC for the period of the last 10 years (2014-01-01 to 2024-02-29). You can compare the information in this report with the trends in your competitors’ patent filings and technologies, and use it to search for important patents.

This service provides, free of charge, a patent analysis report based on the latest patent data (Japanese, U.S., European, and PCT application publications) for use in patent searches, patent analysis, and IP landscaping. The service is offered by "Patent Integration" a firm specializing in patent search/patent analysis.

This report includes basic information to help you understand the IP strategy and management of APPLE INC, such as changes in the number of patents/patent applications they have filed, comparisons of the numbers of patents/patent applications filed by their peers and competitors, their top coapplicants (joint research partners, alliance partners), and their most important patents. It can be used in various intellectual property business operations such as IP landscaping, patent search/patent analysis, preparation of intellectual property business evaluation reports, selection of M&A candidates, and selection of alliance partners.

Article supervision: Patent attorney Yoshiyuki Ose
Article supervised by: Yoshiyuki Ose (Japanese Patent Attorney)    

He is a patent attorney at a patent office. He specializes in invention counseling, patent filing, and intellectual property strategies for start-up companies and new businesses in the fields of software, information technology and artificial intelligence. He runs a patent course for beginners on Udemy, an online course provider.

After studying physics at the University of Tokyo as a doctoral student, he was engaged in intellectual property analysis and technology trend research as an in-house patent attorney at a precision equipment manufacturer and at Toyota Central R&D Labs. Inc..

Introduction

The concept of the "IP landscape" (IPL) has been attracting attention recently.

An IP landscape is not limited to patent information, but also integrates and analyzes business information (e.g., non-patent information such as papers, news releases, stock information, and market information). Intellectual-property-based business management is realized through the analysis of intellectual property information applied to the formulation of management strategies and business strategies. This is a comprehensive approach that includes but not limited to planning of open and closed strategies, selecting M&A candidates, searching for alliance partners, and formulating intellectual property strategies, through the exploitation of intellectual property information.

IP landscaping usually includes patent search and patent analysis. In patent search and patent analysis, it is important to grasp the market position of each company and the overall technological trends and development trends for each technology. More specifically, it is important to understand what intellectual property your own company and other companies hold, what the strengths and weaknesses of other companies are, and how other companies are trying to exploit their intellectual property. In other words, it is important to understand both the business strategy and the intellectual property strategy of each company.

After reading this search report, you may be interested in more detailed patent searches and patent analysis. We offer a service called Patent Integration, which is an integrated patent search and patent analysis service. With reasonable pricing and a simple user interface such that even beginners can quickly search for and analyze patent information by company or technology from a web browser, please consider using it for detailed patent searches, patent analysis, and IP landscaping.

Patent Integration has a patent-landscaping function that can visually represent a set of tens of thousands of patents/patent applications. This allows you to convincingly show the technical positions of your company and its competitors to your management and business strategists in order to formulate management strategies and business strategies.

Foreign Patent Analysis Report

The following foreign patent analysis reports have been found for APPLE INC. The trends of patent filings of APPLE INC for each country can be found by clicking on the Applicant/Patent Holder name next to each country.

Patent Filing Trends in Each Country
Country Applicant / Patent Holder
JP アップルインコーポレイテッド
US APPLE INC
EP APPLE INC
PCT APPLE INC

APPLE INC, Changes in the Number of US Patents/Patent Applications

The changes in the number of patent filings of APPLE INC over the last 20 years (US) are shown below.

The change in the number of patents/patent applications is the most basic index in patent analysis. By examining the change in the number of patents/patent applications, you can see the status of technological development and R&D focus for each company or technology. It should be noted that since there is a one and a half year lag between the filing and the laying open of patent applications, it is not possible to analyze the situation more recently than one and half years prior to the present.

In this report, you can only see the change in the number of patents/patent applications by company or technology, whereas Patent Integration allows you to quickly compare the number of patent applications with your competitors in each technical field by cross-referencing with other keywords and patent classifications.

Counting of the Number of Cases using the Patent Mapping Function

By examining the change in the number of patents/patent applications, you can see the status of technological development and R&D focus for each company or technology.

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Patent landscaping is a visualization of the distribution of patent filings (application focus areas) for each technical keyword. Mountains and islands indicated by heatmap contours represent clusters of patent applications filed, and red areas on the heatmap indicate many patent filings relating to the keyword.

The patent landscape for APPLE INC gives an intuitive understanding of what patent filings they have made and what technical position is to be established. By selecting filing year checkboxes and filtering, you can track their past filing trends (what technical area they have focused on).

By selecting applicant/patent holder checkboxes and filtering, you can visually grasp the technical areas of the filings for each applicant and the partnerships or alliances formed. Please use it as a guide for patent analysis and IP landscaping.

In addition, by visually representing the patent data in this manner, you can convincingly show the technical positions of your company and its competitors to your management and business strategists in order to formulate management strategies and business strategies.

In Patent Integration, you can check the specifics of a patent filing by clicking anywhere on the patent landscape screen. You can also quickly check the position of each applicant for each technical field by cross-referencing with other keywords and patent classifications. You can use it as a guide when considering hypotheses about each company's IP strategy on the IP Landscape. You can also use it for higher-grade intellectual property activities. It has reasonable pricing and a simple user interface that is easy for beginners to handle.

Visualization of Technical Position

The patent landscape allows you to analyze, without any hassle, what patent applications have been filed and what technical position is to be established.

Characteristic Terms (Importance)

The following is a list of words (characteristic terms) often used in APPLE INC patent applications. Characteristic terms with a higher importance are used in more patents/patent applications.

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Search Set (Analysis Object)

This patent analysis report was created for a patent search set of 25,239 cases retrieved by applying the following search formula and analysis period to the following patent database. Patent information such as a patent analysis result, a patent map, and a patent landscape can be freely used for patent searches, analysis, and work on intellectual property strategies, including IP landscaping.

Patent Database
U.S. Patent Filings/Granted Patents
Patent Search Formula
Applicant / Patent Holder:
APPLE INC
Patent Analysis Period
2014-01-01〜2024-02-29
Number of Objects
25,239 patents

Analysis results are determined on the basis of patent gazette data issued by the patent office in each country.

Same industry / competition company information (US)

The number of patents and changes in the number of patents of other companies (competitors) in the same industry as APPLE INC are shown below.

Comparison of changes in the number of patents with peers and competitors is an important analytical index for understanding the intellectual property strategies of each company. By checking the transition of the number of patents for each company / competitor, you can check the status of focus on technology development and R&D for each company / technology.

It should be noted that patents have a time lag of one and a half years from filing to publication, so it is not possible to analyze the situation more recent than one and a half years.

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Introduction of patent search function

Competitive analysis can be performed in a short time by using various search functions such as applicant, filing date, and similar patent search.

Same industry / competition company, Change in the Number of US Patents

Below is a patent map showing changes in the number of applications for US patents of 0 companies in the same industry over the past 20 years.

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Top coapplicant information (US)

The changes in the number of patents shared with APPLE INC’s top coapplicants are shown below.

By searching for the top coapplicants, you can discover what companies APPLE INC is partnered with to develop technologies and use this information for R&D and intellectual property strategies.

Also, by looking at the change in the number of filings, you can see what companies APPLE INC conducted joint research with in the past, and check the history of APPLE INC’s alliances, partnerships, and joint research and development.

If you want to search for more detailed information, you can use Patent Integration to quickly find out specifically what company they filed a joint application with and what invention it was for.

Search for Coapplicants

Patent integration allows you to find coapplicants in a short amount of time.

Trends in filing of joint patent applications for the target period (2014 to 2024).

Among the top coapplicants, GLASSIMETAL TECHNOLOGY INC has the highest number of joint applications in the last for the target period (2014 to 2024) with 17 cases, followed by CRUCIBLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC with 7 cases.

Trends in filing of joint patent applications for the target period (2014 to 2024).
Name Cases
GLASSIMETAL TECHNOLOGY INC 17 cases
CRUCIBLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC 7 cases
ZHANG YUSHU 3 cases
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 2 cases
SAVANT SYSTEMS LLC 2 cases

Top coapplicant, Change in the Number of US Patents

Below is a patent map showing the changes in the numbers of US patent filings by APPLE INC’s top 6 coapplicants over the last 20 years.

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Top coapplicant Details (US)

Trends in filing of joint patent applications with GLASSIMETAL TECHNOLOGY INC

APPLE INC filed 17 joint applications with GLASSIMETAL TECHNOLOGY INC for the analysis period (2014 to 2024).

The mean of the number of filings over the last 10 years (2013 to 2023, 18 cases in total) is 1.6, and the median is 0. The coefficient of variation (standard deviation/mean) is 1.7, and there have been very big fluctuations in the number of filings from year to year.

The company had their highest number of filings in 2014 with 9 cases, and their lowest number in 2022 with 0 cases.

Filing information for the last 10 years (2013 to 2023)
Index Value
Average 1.6 patents
Std Dev 2.7
COV 1.7
Filing trends for the last 3 years
Year Cases YOY
2017 year 1 cases -50.0 %
2016 year 2 cases -60.0 %
2015 year 5 cases -44.4 %

Trends in filing of joint patent applications with CRUCIBLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC

APPLE INC filed 7 joint applications with CRUCIBLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC for the analysis period (2014 to 2024).

The mean of the number of filings over the last 10 years (2013 to 2023, 7 cases in total) is 0.6, and the median is 0. The coefficient of variation (standard deviation/mean) is 2.7, and there have been very big fluctuations in the number of filings from year to year.

The company had their highest number of filings in 2014 with 6 cases, and their lowest number in 2022 with 0 cases.

Filing information for the last 10 years (2013 to 2023)
Index Value
Average 0.6 patents
Std Dev 1.7
COV 2.7
Filing trends for the last 3 years
Year Cases YOY
2015 year 1 cases -83.3 %
2014 year 6 cases -
2013 year 0 cases -

Trends in filing of joint patent applications with ZHANG YUSHU

APPLE INC filed 3 joint applications with ZHANG YUSHU for the analysis period (2014 to 2024).

The mean of the number of filings over the last 5 years (2018 to 2023, 3 cases in total) is 0.5, and the median is 0. The coefficient of variation (standard deviation/mean) is 2.2, and there have been very big fluctuations in the number of filings from year to year.

The company had their highest number of filings in 2020 with 3 cases, and their lowest number in 2022 with 0 cases.

Filing information for the last 5 years (2018 to 2023)
Index Value
Average 0.5 patents
Std Dev 1.1
COV 2.2
Filing trends for the last 3 years
Year Cases YOY
2020 year 3 cases -
2019 year 0 cases -
2018 year 0 cases -

Information on important patents (US)

The following shows US patents held by APPLE INC that have had an invalidation trial against them demanded or an opposition filed against them by a third party, and APPLE INC’s US patents/patent applications of high importance cited by Examiners in patent examination processes.

By noting the most important patents, you can obtain knowledge of the competitive business environment in which APPLE INC is placed (e.g., whether it is a fiercely competitive environment or an oligopolistic market and the like). In general, it can be understood that a company with a large number of demands for invalidation trials is developing their business in a business environment where IP disputes are common.

If you want to search for more detailed information, you can use Patent Integration to retrieve and download by company cited patents/patent applications or patents undergoing invalidation trials. You can quickly extract important patents from a patent set that includes multiple competitors by cross-referencing with other keywords and patent classifications. Please consider using it for searches for important patents/patent applications.

Search for Information on Important Patents

You can quickly search for important patents/patent applications, such as patents/patent applications that were cited many times and patents that have had invalidation trials demanded against them many times.

Glossary

Cited
Indicates that the patent/patent application has been cited (by Examiners) in notices of reasons for rejection in the examination process of other (Japanese, U.S., or European) patent applications. The higher the number of citations, the more important the patent/patent application is considered to be.
Request for invalidation trial
Indicates that a third party has requested a procedure to invalidate the patent. It is likely to affect the business of third parties and is considered to be of high importance.
Opposition
Indicates that a third party has filed a petition with the Patent Office to hear the validity of the patent again. Like the trial for invalidation, it is considered to be of high importance.
Information provision
Indicates that a third party has provided the Patent Office with useful information for examination for the patent filed. It is usually considered to be of high importance because it is done to prevent the patent from being granted.
Browsing request
Indicates that a third party has requested the Patent Office to view the patent bag (a set of documents exchanged between the Patent Office and the applicant). The bag is often checked prior to trial for invalidation, opposition, and provision of information, and is considered to be a highly important patent.

Cited cases

Top Patents/Patent Applications with the Highest Number of Cited

Of the patent applications filed in the last 10 years (2014-03-01 to 2024-02-29), 13,353 patents/patent applications were cited more than once in the examination process of other patent applications. The mean of the number of cited is 14.3. The most cited patent is USP9338493 "Intelligent automated assistant for TV user interactions" (779 times) , and the next most cited patent is USP9721566 "Competing devices responding to voice triggers" (622 times) .

Top Patents/Patent Applications with the Highest Number of Cited over a Period of 10 Years (2014-03-01 ~ 2024-02-29)
- No. Title
1 USP9338493 Intelligent automated assistant for TV user interactions 779 times
2 USP9721566 Competing devices responding to voice triggers 622 times
3 USP9966065 Multi-command single utterance input method 559 times
4 USP9979625 Uniform communication protocols for communication between controllers and accessories 535 times
5 USP9633660 User profiling for voice input processing 527 times

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