Dell Technologies has a total of 51713 patents globally, out of which 21943 have been granted. Of these 51713 patents, more than 90% patents are active. United States of America is where Dell Technologies has filed the maximum number of patents, followed by China and Europe and it also seems reasonable as the biggest market for Dell Technologies is USA, it has generated an annual revenue of $94.22 billion in the year 2021. Parallelly, USA seems to be the main focused R&D center and is also the origin country of Dell Technologies.
Dell Technologies was formed in the year 2016 as a merger of Dell and EMC Corporation. Company is doing business in sales of personal computers, network servers, data storage solutions, and software. As of December 2021, Dell Technologies has a market cap of $42.61 Billion.
Do read about some of the most popular patents of Dell Technologies which have been covered by us in this article and also you can find Dell Technologies’s patents information, the worldwide patent filing activity and its patent filing trend over the years, and many other stats over Dell Technologies’s patent portfolio.
How many patents does Dell Technologies have?
Dell Technologies has a total of 51713 patents globally. These patents belong to 34380 unique patent families. Out of 51713 patents, 46587 patents are active.
How many Dell Technologies patents are Alive/Dead?
Worldwide Patents
Patent Families
How Many Patents did Dell Technologies 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 | Dell Technologies Applications Filed | Dell Technologies Patents Granted |
| 2011 | 1747 | 749 |
| 2012 | 2624 | 877 |
| 2013 | 3435 | 903 |
| 2014 | 3561 | 1259 |
| 2015 | 4226 | 1586 |
| 2016 | 4233 | 1939 |
| 2017 | 4108 | 2087 |
| 2018 | 4658 | 2425 |
| 2019 | 5417 | 2832 |
| 2020 | 2399 | 3186 |
| 2021 | 304 | 2967 |
How Many Patents did Dell Technologies File in Different Countries?
Countries in which Dell Technologies Filed Patents
| Country | Patents |
| United States Of America | 41116 |
| China | 2430 |
| Europe | 1825 |
| India | 834 |
| Japan | 697 |
| Australia | 567 |
| United Kingdom | 551 |
| Singapore | 293 |
| Taiwan | 293 |
| Germany | 269 |
| Korea (South) | 252 |
| Canada | 161 |
| Ireland | 146 |
| France | 141 |
| Hong Kong (S.A.R.) | 110 |
| Brazil | 96 |
| Italy | 77 |
| Malaysia | 50 |
| Russia | 36 |
| Poland | 36 |
| Israel | 29 |
| Austria | 20 |
| Spain | 16 |
| Mexico | 13 |
| Denmark | 12 |
| New Zealand | 8 |
| Portugal | 5 |
| South Africa | 4 |
| Hungary | 4 |
| Switzerland | 4 |
| Philippines | 4 |
| Africa | 4 |
| Ukraine | 3 |
| Chile | 3 |
| Eurasia | 3 |
| Netherlands | 3 |
| Argentina | 2 |
| Cyprus | 2 |
| Slovenia | 2 |
| Morocco | 1 |
| Norway | 1 |
| Croatia | 1 |
| Tunisia | 1 |
| Colombia | 1 |
| Turkey | 1 |
Where are Research Centers of Dell Technologies Patents Located?
10 Best Dell Technologies Patents
US6826582B1 is the most popular patent in the Dell Technologies portfolio. It has received 1679 citations so far from companies like Microsoft Corporation, Salesforce.Com and International Business Machines.
Below is the list of 10 most cited patents of Dell Technologies:
| Publication Number | Citation Count |
| US6826582B1 | 1679 |
| US6826711B2 | 1425 |
| US20050125593A1 | 1298 |
| US20070234110A1 | 1275 |
| US7356679B1 | 1267 |
| US20050097320A1 | 814 |
| US7577722B1 | 745 |
| US7185192B1 | 659 |
| US8063619B2 | 644 |
| US20050268107A1 | 613 |
Which Companies are using Dell Technologies 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 Dell Technologies patent portfolio are IBM, Bank of New York and VMware.
List of the top forward citing Companies –
| Company | Number of Patents |
| IBM | 9080 |
| Bank Of New York | 7639 |
| VMware | 4476 |
| Microsoft | 4471 |
| Hewlett Packard | 2726 |
| Intel | 2614 |
| Red Hat | 2411 |
| Samsung | 1961 |
| Amazon | 1906 |
| Cisco | 1744 |
Count of 102 and 103 Type Rejections based on Dell Technologies Patents
Top Dell Technologies Patents used in Rejecting Most Patent Applications
| Patent Number | Count of Rejected Applications |
| US7577722B1 | 95 |
| US7356679B1 | 81 |
| US8572391B2 | 68 |
| US20050097320A1 | 68 |
| US7685126B2 | 66 |
| US20030033308A1 | 66 |
| US8255484B2 | 49 |
| US20090282404A1 | 49 |
| US8751801B2 | 45 |
| US20050268107A1 | 45 |
What Percentage of Dell Technologies US Patent Applications were Granted?
Dell Technologies (Excluding its subsidiaries) has filed 19859 patent applications at USPTO so far (Excluding Design and PCT applications). Out of these 19160 have been granted leading to a grant rate of 96.68%.
Below are the key stats of Dell Technologies patent prosecution at the USPTO.
Which Law Firms Filed Most US Patents for Dell Technologies?
| Law Firm | Total Application | Success Rate |
| Ip Patent Department | 5139 | 98.73% |
| Baker Botts Llp | 1454 | 98.21% |
| Larson Newman Llp | 1219 | 95.76% |
| Ryan Mason & Lewis Llp | 1156 | 99.48% |
| Haynes And Boone Llp | 1076 | 96.91% |
| Bainwood Huang & Associates Llc | 947 | 97.97% |
| Prol Intellectual Property Law PLLC | 906 | 97.35% |
| Terrile Cannatti & Chambers Llp | 836 | 79.80% |
| Emc Ip Holding Company Llc | 571 | 98.85% |
| Jackson Walker LLP | 565 | 87.77% |
“As the world has navigated a difficult and uncertain year, it has become crystal clear that technology has never been more important or impactful,” said Jeffrey W. Clarke, Chief Operating Officer & Vice Chairman at Dell Technologies.
Dell Technologies develops cutting-edge technology to enable a more connected, data-intensive, and dispersed future. It provides digital innovation techniques that update IT infrastructure and enable data-driven innovation to unlock corporate knowledge.
Dell Technologies is offering innovation to make bold decisions with AI-driven insights, treating data management as top priority, product designing, increasing connectivity, and improving the existing cloud infrastructure by introducing Hybrid Cloud: a smart choice for AI and HPC which improves security, latency, application architectures and costs in an organization.
What are Dell Technologies key innovation segments?
What Technologies are Covered by Dell Technologies?
The chart below distributes patents filed by Dell Technologies in different countries on the basis of the technology protected in patents. It also represents the markets where Dell Technologies thinks it’s important to protect particular technology inventions.
R&D Focus: How Dell Technologies search focus changed over the years?
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