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GlobalData leverages non-traditional data that allows users to analyse critical trends and signals emerging from Jobs, Patents, Company Filings, and Social Media datasets across sectors. With the use of advanced technologies like AI, ML, NLP, our alternative dataset helps investors explore new investment opportunities and build strategies by identifying and tracking company performance across sectors.

Social Patents are patents filed that will positively impact the society. Patents data is sourced directly from offices of various patenting authorities and relevant patents to the social themes are identified and mapped. Such patents can help tackle issues like human rights, diversity and inclusion, health and safety, and community impact.

Records 353,922
Assignees 16,864
Inventions 31,366
Filings 228,648
Grants 116,908

Patents Filed across Top 10 Social Themes over the Last Five Years

Social Patents insights allow users to identify upcoming innovation and investment opportunities across themes. Human Rights is one of the social-related themes with 244,685 patents, highest among all themes.

Top Five Sectors with 'Social' Patents across SDGs over the Last 3 Years.

Social patents data will help investors to track upcoming innovation by sector and will help to adjust their investment strategy. Technology, Media and Telecom sector is the key innovator in the green patent landscape over the last three years with the 16,236 of patents.

Top Health & Safety Patent Assignees

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Includes companies with the highest number of health and safety patents filed

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