Started in San Fransico in 2008, Airbnb becomes the biggest privately held company in the short-term house rental market where people list their properties for rent on its marketplace. The company has operations in over 220 countries and has more than 7 million properties listed on its marketplace. Below are the 15 key statistics and insights into Airbnb Patents:
How many patents does Airbnb have?
Airbnb has a total of 191 patents globally. These patents belong to 55 unique patent families. Out of 191 patents, 161 patents are active.
How Many Patents did Airbnb File Every Year?
Are you wondering why there is a drop in patent filing for the last two years? It is because a patent application can take up to 18 months to get published. Certainly, it doesn’t suggest a decrease in the patent filing.
How many Airbnb patents are Alive/Dead?
Worldwide Patents
Patent Families
How Many Patents did Airbnb File in Different Countries?
What Technologies are Covered by Airbnb Patents?
The chart below distributes patents filed by Airbnb in different countries on the basis of the technology protected in patents. It also represents the markets where Airbnb thinks it’s important to protect particular technology inventions.
Where are Research Centers of Airbnb Located?
R&D Focus: How Airbnb Research Focus Changed Over the Years?
10 Best Airbnb Patents
USD820307S1 is the most popular patent in the Airbnb portfolio. It has received 200 citations so far from companies like Ethicon Inc, Google, and Samsung.
Below is the list of 10 most cited patents of Airbnb:
| Publication Number | Citation Count |
| USD820307S1 | 200 |
| USD842328S1 | 168 |
| US9070088B1 | 27 |
| USD816687S1 | 26 |
| USD832886S1 | 24 |
| USD788789S1 | 16 |
| USD831675S1 | 14 |
| USD831052S1 | 13 |
| USD849016S1 | 9 |
| US20160078358A1 | 5 |
Which Companies are using Airbnb Patents to Advance their Research?
If patents or patents from a particular technology area of a company receive a lot of citations, it implies that the technology is being followed and incrementally innovated by the citing companies. It also indicates that citing companies are working on similar and closely related technologies.
The top-cited technologies in the Airbnb patent portfolio are Reservation System, Customer Support & Identity Verification. IBM, Samsung, and Morgan Stanley as the top forward citing assignees
| Company | Number of Patents |
| IBM | 6 |
| Microsoft | 3 |
| eBay | 3 |
| Samsung | 2 |
| Kaist | 2 |
| Mastercard | 2 |
| 2 | |
| AT&T | 1 |
| Kt Corporation | 1 |
| Comenity Llc | 1 |
How many inventions of other companies were rejected due to Airbnb patents?
The statistics below share strategic R&D insights. It tells the companies that were trying to protect inventions similar to Airbnb. They couldn’t because Airbnb had protected those before them.
Examiners at the USPTO used 16 Airbnb patents in 93 rejections (35 USC § 102 or 35 USC § 103 types). Below is the distribution of the number of blocked patent applications vs the technology cluster of Airbnb patents.
Count of 102 and 103 Type Rejections based on Airbnb Patents
Top Airbnb Patents used in Rejecting Most Patent Applications
| Patent Number | Count of Rejected Applications |
| US10467553B2 | 9 |
| US10311747B2 | 6 |
| US10303725B2 | 6 |
| US20130325723A1 | 5 |
| US9070088B1 | 4 |
| US10354206B2 | 4 |
| US9288217B2 | 3 |
| US9674205B2 | 2 |
| US10430730B2 | 2 |
| US20160078358A1 | 2 |
| US10298658B2 | 1 |
| US10607160B2 | 1 |
| US9774591B2 | 1 |
| US20190188644A1 | 1 |
| US10664855B2 | 1 |
| US20180018683A1 | 1 |
What Percentage of Airbnb US Patent Applications were Granted?
Airbnb (Excluding its subsidiaries) has filed 68 patent applications at USPTO so far (Excluding Design and PCT applications). Out of these 44 have been granted leading to a grant rate of 89.8%.
Below are the key stats of Airbnb patent prosecution at the USPTO.
Which Law Firms Filed Most US Patents for Airbnb?
| Law Firm | Total Applications | Success Rate |
| Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner | 42 | 93.55% |
| Airbnb Fenwick | 20 | 86.67% |
| Maynard Cooper & Gale | 6 | 66.67% |