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Global: Top Online Retail Patents Holders in the Retail & Wholesale Sector (2002 - 2022)

  • With 3,569 Online Retail related patents published between 2002 and 2022, eBay Inc holds the most number of Online Retail patents in the global Retail & Wholesale sector.

  • The second largest number of Online Retail related patents were published by International Business Machines Corp with 2,194 patents. The third largest number of Online Retail related patents were published by SoftBank Group Corp with 1,860 patents, of which 89.1% was contributed by its subsidiary Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. The fourth largest number of Online Retail related patents were published by Microsoft Corp with 1,808 patents, of which 66.6% was contributed by its subsidiary Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC. The fifth largest number of Online Retail related patents were published by Amazon.com Inc with 1,442 patents, of which 88.5% was contributed by its subsidiary Amazon Technologies Inc.

  • The top five patent holders, i.e., eBay Inc, International Business Machines Corp, SoftBank Group Corp, Microsoft Corp, and Amazon.com Inc, together held 10,873 Online Retail patents during the period.

Global: Top Online Retail Patents Holders in the Retail & Wholesale Sector (2002 - 2022)

Note: The number of patents includes patents published by the holding company and its subsidiaries (data till October 2022)
Published: November 2022
Source: GlobalData

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