Microsoft: “Be what’s next” is an American multinational computer technology corporation founded in the year 1975. Formed by Harvard College dropout, Bill Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen, Microsoft has now become the biggest and one of the most valuable software companies. Its innovation focus, ranging from operating systems,
31222 inventors at Microsoft filed 45981 US patents between 1976 and 2020. These Microsoft inventors belong to 65 different countries. The donut chart below shares the percentage contribution of inventors from the top ten countries in Microsoft US patent filing. Countries of Inventors of Microsoft US Patents Country Inventor Patent
Microsoft’s Patent Filing vs Abandonment Trend What Percentage of Filed Patents were Abandoned Every Year (File to Lapse Ratio)
Microsoft works with many law firms across the USA. In order to understand which law firms prosecute the most number of patent applications for Microsoft, we used the USPTO data and the help of our proprietary tool Examiner Analysis (EA). Following is the list of top 15 law firms that
Microsoft has filed 61465 patent applications at USPTO so far (Excluding Design and PCT applications). Out of these 43567 have been granted leading to the grant rate of 78.96%. Here is a comparison between average grant rate of the USPTO, Art Units where Microsoft files patents, and grant rate of
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