A few days ago, the European Patent Office released the "2021 Patent Index" list, among the top 25, there are Huawei, OPPO, ZTE, Baidu on the list, of which Huawei with 3544 patent applications, surpassed last year's Samsung, regained the first place in the list (2019 list one is Huawei, 2020 list one is Samsung).
It is worth noting, then, that in recent years, the number of patent applications filed by Chinese companies in Europe has been growing rapidly, reaching 24% in the five major countries.
The reason why Chinese companies have a very strong increase in the number of patent applications last year is that European scholars mainly believe that this reflects the growth of the strength of Chinese enterprises.
In addition to Huawei, oppo ranked 13th in the top 25 list with 1057 patent applications; ZTE ranked 22nd with 719 patent applications; Baidu ranked 23rd with 691 patent applications. If we expand to the top 50, we can still see Xiaomi (28th) and Tencent (49th) on the list.
However, there is a saying that the total number of patent applications of Chinese enterprises is still far from the United States, Germany, Japan and other developed regions, and the patent applications of Chinese enterprises are concentrated in the field of communications, computers, and motors, equipment and energy, such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals and other fields, and rarely see Chinese companies.
Referring to the European Patent Office, this should be partial.