Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HPE, has a total of 22376 patents globally, out of which 14923 have been granted. Of these 22376 patents, more than 59% patents are active. United States of America is where HP has filed the maximum number of patents, followed by Europe and China, it has generated an annual revenue of $ 63.5 billion in the year 2021. Parallelly, USA seems to be the main focused R&D center and is also the origin country of HPE.
HPE was founded in the year was founded in 2015 after splitting from Hewlett-Packard Company and is a multinational enterprise technology. It develops and sells servers, storage, networking, hybrid cloud platforms, supercomputing, software, and related services to businesses and large corporations.
Do read about some of the most popular patents of HPE which have been covered by us in this article and also you can find HPE patents information, the worldwide patent filing activity and its patent filing trend over the years, and many other stats over HPE patent portfolio.
How many patents does HPE have?
HPE has a total of 22376 patents globally. These patents belong to 15023 unique patent families. Out of 22376 patents, 13307 patents are active.
How many HPE patents are Alive/Dead?
Worldwide Patents
How Many Patents did HPE 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.
| Year of Patents Filing or Grant | HPE Applications Filed | HPE Patents Granted |
| 2011 | 1029 | 683 |
| 2012 | 1483 | 800 |
| 2013 | 1535 | 763 |
| 2014 | 1474 | 917 |
| 2015 | 2173 | 978 |
| 2016 | 1193 | 899 |
| 2017 | 692 | 720 |
| 2018 | 1063 | 722 |
| 2019 | 972 | 1130 |
| 2020 | 578 | 1132 |
| 2021 | 339 | 843 |
| 2022 | – | 90 |
How Many Patents did HPE File in Different Countries?
Countries in which HPE Filed Patents
| Country | Patents |
| United States Of America | 14845 |
| Europe | 1656 |
| China | 1574 |
| Germany | 1090 |
| United Kingdom | 413 |
| India | 326 |
| Taiwan | 307 |
| Korea (South) | 158 |
| Japan | 74 |
| Brazil | 32 |
| Hong Kong (S.A.R.) | 31 |
| Australia | 29 |
| Canada | 27 |
| Singapore | 17 |
| Austria | 8 |
| Israel | 7 |
| Malaysia | 7 |
| New Zealand | 7 |
| Finland | 3 |
| Denmark | 3 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3 |
| Spain | 3 |
| Poland | 1 |
| Viet Nam | 1 |
| Mexico | 1 |
| Sweden | 1 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 |
| Czech Republic | 1 |
| Philippines | 1 |
Where are Research Centers of HPE Patents Located?
10 Best HPE Patents
US6330570B1 is the most popular patent in the HPE portfolio. It has received 884 citations so far from companies like IBM, Hitachi, and Microsoft.
Below is the list of 10 most cited patents of HPE:
| Publication Number | Citation Count |
| US6330570B1 | 884 |
| US6336138B1 | 750 |
| US6256767B1 | 739 |
| US6185601B1 | 669 |
| US6535983B1 | 606 |
| US6173322B1 | 600 |
| US6606690B2 | 575 |
| US6601101B1 | 552 |
| US6195676B1 | 550 |
| US6243761B1 | 542 |
Which Companies are using HPE 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 citing companies in the HPE patent portfolio are IBM, Microsoft, and Bank of New York Mellon Trust.
List of the top forward citing Companies –
| Company | Number of Patents |
| IBM | 2156 |
| Microsoft | 670 |
| Bank Of New York Mellon Trust | 622 |
| Intel | 615 |
| Cisco | 417 |
| Samsung | 387 |
| Fujitsu | 373 |
| Amazon | 308 |
| Oracle | 304 |
| Huawei | 269 |
Count of 102 and 103 Type Rejections based on HPE Patents
Top HPE Patents used in Rejecting Most Patent Applications
| Patent Number | Count of Rejected Applications |
| US8185893B2 | 45 |
| US7197433B2 | 39 |
| US7730486B2 | 35 |
| US8544002B2 | 32 |
| US7310737B2 | 28 |
| US6574104B2 | 27 |
| US6785786B1 | 26 |
| US8046767B2 | 25 |
| US7644148B2 | 25 |
| US7508663B2 | 25 |
| US9594579B2 | 24 |
| US8885539B2 | 23 |
| US8503307B2 | 22 |
| US8223770B2 | 21 |
| US7315448B1 | 21 |
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What are HPE’s key innovation segments?
What Technologies are Covered by HPE?
The chart below distributes patents filed by HPE in different countries on the basis of the technology protected in patents. It also represents the markets where HPE thinks it’s important to protect particular technology inventions.
R&D Focus: How HPE search focus changed over the years?
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