Recruit Holdings Patents – Key Insights and Stats

Recruit Holdings has a total of 647 patents globally, out of which 110 have been granted. Of these 647 patents, more than 41% patents are active. Japan is where Recruit Holdings has filed the maximum number of patents, followed by the United States of America and Europe. Parallelly, Japan seems to be the main focused R&D centre and also is the origin country of Recruit Holdings.

Recruit Holdings was founded in the year 1960. Recruit Holdings offers services for temporary staffing, marketing via media and human resource technology. The business runs the online job and corporate informational sites Glassdoor and Indeed, respectively. In Japan and abroad, Recruit Holdings provides advertising services, HR solutions, and temporary employment services. As of March 2023, Recruit has a market cap of $41.34 Billion.

Do read about some of the most popular patents of Recruit Holdings which have been covered by us in this article and also you can find Recruit Holdings patents information, the worldwide patent filing activity and its patent filing trend over the years, and many other stats over Recruit Holdings patent portfolio.

How many patents does the founder and the CEO of Recruit Holdings have?

The founder Minegishi Masumi, Yoshihiro Kitamura have 0, 110 patents and CEO Hisayuki Idekoba have 0 patents.

How many patents does Recruit Holdings have?

Recruit Holdings has a total of 647 patents globally. These patents belong to 422 unique patent families. Out of 647 patents, 268 patents are active.

How Many Patents did Recruit Holdings File Every Year?

Recruit Holdings Patent Filling Trend

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 GrantRecruit Holdings Applications FiledRecruit Holdings Patents Granted
20235
2022417
2021288
2020289
20194714
20186817
201711212
20161572
201561
20145
201332
20124
20113

How many Recruit Holdings patents are Alive/Dead?

Recruit Holdings Patent Portfolio

How Many Patents did Recruit Holdings File in Different Countries?

Recruit Holdings Worldwide Patent Filling

Countries in which Recruit Holdings Filed Patents

CountryPatent
Japan407
United States Of America43
Europe42
Australia3
Korea (South)3
Canada2
Taiwan1
New Zealand1
Russia1

Where are Research Centres of Recruit Holdings Patents Located?

R&D Centers of Recruit Holdings

10 Best Recruit Holdings Patents

JP2008046987A is the most popular patent in the Recruit Holdings portfolio. It has received 63 citations so far from companies like Casio Computer, Yahoo and Microsoft.

Below is the list of 10 most cited patents of Recruit Holdings:

Publication NumberCitation Count
JP2008046987A63
JP2004029943A51
US20080065633A150
US8099415B243
JP2003022314A39
JP2007047884A37
JP2017004390A34
JP2017102886A30
JP2004260573A29
JP2003208535A29

How many inventions of other companies were rejected due to Recruit Holdings patents?

The statistics below share strategic R&D insights. It tells the companies that were trying to protect inventions similar to Recruit Holdings invention. They couldn’t because Recruit Holdings had protected those before them.

Examiners at the USPTO referred 10 Recruit Holdings patents in 83 rejections (35 USC § 102 or 35 USC § 103 types).

The top citing companies in the Recruit Holdings patent portfolio are Microsoft, IBM and Suinno.

List of the Companies whose Patents were rejected citing Recruit Holdings –

CompanyNumber of Patent Applications that faced Rejection Citing Recruit Holdings PatentsNumber of Rejections (102 & 103)
Microsoft818
IBM511
Suinno23
Google23
Vmware27
Surfin Mouse14
Slack Technologies12
Saba Software12
Futures11
Stepstone11

Count of 102 and 103 Type Rejections based on Recruit Holdings Patents

What Percentage of Recruit Holdings US Patent Applications were Granted?

Recruit Holdings (Excluding its subsidiaries) has filed 11 patent applications at USPTO so far (Excluding Design and PCT applications). Out of these 3 have been granted leading to a grant rate of 27.27%.

Below are the key stats of Recruit Holdings patent prosecution at the USPTO.

Which Law Firms Filed Most US Patents for Recruit Holdings?

Law FirmTotal ApplicationsSuccess Rate
Morgan Lewis & Bockius812.5%
Haynes And Boone2100%
Ampacc Law Group10%

What are Recruit Holdings key innovation segments?

What Technologies are Covered by Recruit Holdings?

The chart below distributes patents filed by Recruit Holdings in different countries on the basis of the technology protected in patents. It also represents the markets where Recruit Holdings thinks it’s important to protect particular technology inventions.

R&D Focus: How has Recruit Holdings search focus changed over the years?

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