Shanghai - Holland Chinese Royal PHILPS announced the day before, the company for two consecutive years to become the world within the scope of the European Patent Office (EPO) to submit patent applications up to the enterprise. The 2016 patent application rankings published by the European Patent Office in March 7th showed that PHILPS submitted 2 patent applications and 568 items last year.
In addition to the European Patent Office patent applications up to global business, PHILPS in the "medical science", "mechanical and electrical equipment, energy" and "measure" the three major scientific and technological frontiers were topped. Compared with other fields, the European Patent Office has received the most applications in the medical technology field.
PHILPS once again become the largest patent applications in Holland enterprises, the application for all patents accounted for 1/3 of Holland enterprises patent applications. PHILPS has made a great contribution to Holland's booming innovation power.
At present, PHILPS's intellectual property portfolio includes 79000 patents, 49000 trademarks, 86000 exclusive design rights, and 4400 domain names.
"To become the 2016 world within the European Patent Office patent applications up to the enterprise, we feel proud," PHILPS chief intellectual property officer Brian Sinman (Brian Hinman) said, "this ranking reflects our commitment to innovation, and has a strong intellectual property portfolio as a support. Intellectual property rights are a valuable strategic commercial asset for PHILPS and closely related to our mission to improve people's lives through meaningful innovations. Although, in our view, the quality and value of the company's intellectual property portfolio is more important than the number of applications, we are still pleased that the number of applications is at the top of the European Patent office."
"The 2016 patent highlights Europe as the world's leading innovation market strength, director of the European Patent Office (Benua Battistelli Beno t lies Battistelli) said," PHILPS has been one of the most active companies in the European Patent Office patent application. In 2016, the number of patent applications awarded by the European Patent Office was a major achievement for PHILPS. A number of European companies, including PHILPS, were among the top 10, fully demonstrating the dynamism of the European and innovative enterprises."
For the full text of the European Patent Office press release and related materials, please visit the www.epo.org website. For more information on PHILPS's intellectual property and standards division, please visit www.ip.philips.com.
* including the field of lighting (in 2016, PHILPS still holds a large portion of the lighting business) and the number of patent applications for Lumileds (Lumileds, which remains a wholly owned branch of PHILPS) in 2016.