Stripe has a total of 247 patents globally, out of which 195 have been granted. Of these 247 patents, more than 78% patents are active. United States of America is where Stripe has filed the maximum number of patents, followed by UK and France and it also seems reasonable as the biggest market for Stripe is USA, it has generated an annual revenue of $2.5 billion in the year 2020. Parallelly, USA seems to be the main focused R&D center and is also the origin country of Stripe. Stripe’s initial public offering (IPO) has yet to be declared, but anticipation is building for its impending listing.
Stripe was founded in the year 2009 by Patrick Collison and John Collison. Company is doing business in providing financial services and software as a service. Payment processing software and application programming interfaces for e-commerce websites and mobile applications are the company’s main offerings. As of December 2021, Stripe has a market cap of $95 Billion.
Do read about some of the most popular patents of Stripe which have been covered by us in this article and also you can find Stripe’s patents information, the worldwide patent filing activity and its patent filing trend over the years, and many other stats over Stripe’s patent portfolio.
How many patents does Stripe have?
Stripe has a total of 247 patents globally. These patents belong to 104 unique patent families. Out of 247 patents, 195 patents are active.
How many Stripe patents are Alive/Dead?
Worldwide Patents
Patent Families
How Many Patents did Stripe 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 | Stripe Applications Filed | Stripe Patents Granted |
| 2011 | 16 | 17 |
| 2012 | 19 | 16 |
| 2013 | 8 | 20 |
| 2014 | 15 | 18 |
| 2015 | 9 | 13 |
| 2016 | 14 | 15 |
| 2017 | 20 | 13 |
| 2018 | 10 | 11 |
| 2019 | 22 | 12 |
| 2020 | 10 | 7 |
| 2021 | 1 | 13 |
How Many Patents did Stripe File in Different Countries?
Countries in which Stripe Filed Patents
| Country | Patents |
| United States Of America | 95 |
| United Kingdom | 2 |
| France | 2 |
| Korea (South) | 2 |
Where are Research Centers of Stripe Patents Located?
10 Best Stripe Patents
US20090254971A1 is the most popular patent in the Stripe portfolio. It has received 1789 citations so far from companies like Microsoft Corporation, Sony and Google.
Below is the list of 10 most cited patents of Stripe:
| Publication Number | Citation Count |
| US20090254971A1 | 1789 |
| US7630986B1 | 1443 |
| US6807614B2 | 400 |
| US7546438B2 | 319 |
| US6826553B1 | 287 |
| US6402029B1 | 242 |
| US7376714B1 | 223 |
| US7249097B2 | 214 |
| US6293462B1 | 179 |
| US8208943B2 | 165 |
Which Companies are using Stripe 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 Stripe patent portfolio are IBM, Oracle and Microsoft.
List of the top forward citing Companies –
| Company | Number of Patents |
| IBM | 3 |
| Oracle | 2 |
| Microsoft | 2 |
| Mastercard | 2 |
| 2 | |
| Nielsen Consumer | 1 |
| Lg Electronics | 1 |
| A9Com | 1 |
| Blancco Technology Group | 1 |
| Blast Motion | 1 |
Count of 102 and 103 Type Rejections based on Stripe Patents
Top Stripe Patents used in Rejecting Most Patent Applications
| Patent Number | Count of Rejected Applications |
| US20090254971A1 | 123 |
| US7630986B1 | 59 |
| US8838477B2 | 25 |
| US8208943B2 | 24 |
| US7774229B1 | 22 |
| US8028081B2 | 21 |
| US7249097B2 | 18 |
| US8914851B2 | 13 |
| US8346897B2 | 13 |
| US7895127B2 | 11 |
What Percentage of Stripe US Patent Applications were Granted?
Stripe (Excluding its subsidiaries) has filed 44 patent applications at USPTO so far (Excluding Design and PCT applications). Out of these 33 have been granted leading to a grant rate of 91.67%.
Below are the key stats of Stripe patent prosecution at the USPTO.
Which Law Firms Filed Most US Patents for Stripe?
| Law Firm | Total Application | Success Rate |
| Womble Bond Dickinson Us Llp Stripe | 29 | 100.00% |
| Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner P A Stripe Inc | 6 | 0% |
| Stripe Inc | 3 | 100.00% |
| Womble Bond Dickinson Us Llp | 3 | 66.67% |
| Johnson Marcou Isaacs & Nix Llc | 2 | 0.00% |
| Macmillan Sobanski & Todd Llc Owens Corning | 1 | 100.00% |
Stipe began as a pure online payments facilitator, with the goal of making it easier for new and small businesses to accept online payments. Since then, it has expanded into a number of new and related business areas, including:
- Connect: a payment processing service for internet platforms. Uber, for example, may utilise Stripe to receive payments from riders as well as pay drivers.
- Billing: Subscription and invoice payments for firms with recurrent client contacts.
- Issuing: Payment cards, both virtual and actual, for specified purposes. If you need to pay an employee a set amount of money to do a job-related task, for example.
- Corporate card: Pay, centralise, and organise all company spending.
- Radar: Fraud and risk management.
- Atlas: Incorporation of a company.
- Sigma: Business intelligence and analytics.
- Capital: Stripe uses payment data to intelligently offer its customers growth funding.
This is only a sample of the services Stripe provides to its clients. Stripe has built and distributed a full suite of commerce, finance, and intelligence solutions for internet-first businesses based on the widespread adoption of its first product.
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What are Stripe key innovation segments?
What Technologies are Covered by Stripe?
The chart below distributes patents filed by Stripe in different countries on the basis of the technology protected in patents. It also represents the markets where Stripe thinks it’s important to protect particular technology inventions.
R&D Focus: How Stripe search focus changed over the years?
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