My first search ("bosch") turned up almost a quarter of a million in the main company. Waay more than e.g. Ericsson, Milwaukee, Ryobi, Microsoft and Google which I searched next.
Is there a "leaderboard" page?
Edit: found the top lists at the bottom, but I don't want to pick a category, and the list format shows list position but not patent count unless you click each entry, which to me was not very accessible.
The all-time leaderboards for each industry and each technology are here: https://goodip.io/iq/top/industries https://goodip.io/iq/top/technologies
Getting patents in your name was a big part of moving up the internal engineering ladder.
I just wanted to point out that A1 at the end of this document means this is JUST a published application.
One would need to find each "GRANTED" application that claims priority to this application to find any patents. Then one would need to read the claims on each patent to really know what it covers.
The WO at the beginning means it was filed with WIPO first, which is not any particular country. WIPO is the World Intellectual Property Organization. This is an application process that makes it simpler to go to multiple countries, but every country has its own process (the EU countries have more synergy in the process and their own EP process).
I wish you could click on individual patents to see the full text of them, even if that was hosted elsewhere…
If you are looking for feeedback, it would be an absolute killer feature if you can extract the patent 'claims' from the full text and have the option of expanding only 'patent claims' from an entry on the patent 'List' shown for a given company.
This seems to be more of a partial source and not a definitive resource.
A proper historical analysis of companies would need to account for mergers/splits/renames of companies themselves - data which is only really able to be inferred (at best) from patent sources. You'll need company merger records etc..
I wonder if they're also handling misspellings in company data? (Eg Bpsch instead of Bosch, this sort of thing does sometimes get printed on patent documents).
Chinese company names are one of the harder cases, I feel, for example Edwards (pump manufacturer) presence in China appears to go by "Aidehua Vacuum" (which seems to be a roman-script Chinese transliteration of Edwards Vacuum).
It's a hard problem to attend but I think you're going to miss a lot of detail in company-focused analysis if you don't tackle it.
This is all personal opinion and in no way relates to my work."
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