Analysis about the patent landscape of drones

1. A quick look at drones: who
is thriving?

2. To analyze the IP trends in unmanned aerial vehicles or Drones, we have made
a quick analysis of 2,674 patent families from PatStat which comes integrated
within this powerful tool VantagePoint.
• Who is patenting ? What are they protecting? Where?
Disclaimer: this is a simple sample of what bibliometrics supported by tech mining can do.
For this analysis simple synonyms where searched, of course more complex and extensive
searches as well as combining independent sources as well as your own internal data can be
equally analyzed.

3. Main drone
patent
applicants
through years,
cummulative
It seems as if
Thales, Lockheed,
Raytheon, BAE,
etc. were
following each
other
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
BOEING COMPANY
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL
ZERO UAV (BEIJING) INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY
COMPANY
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
PARROT
BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
RAYTHEON COMPANY
KOREA AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES
WUHAN AI BIRD UAV COMPANY
SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY COMPANY
THALES
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED
BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
FOXCONN
BAE SYSTEMS According to the Economist, DJI
holds the 70 % of the world
market . They started to file
recently.

4. With the amazing VantagePoint
from Search Technology Inc. one can
see rapidly the distribution of
classifications in which the patent
families about drones concentrate
more.
A for applications; B for processes, C
for chemistry; F for mechanical
Engineering; G for physics, and H for
electronics and control…
All related to drones

5. The pace the leading
applicants are protecting
and getting rights

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