On April 6, according to the "2021 Patent Index" report released by the European Patent Office (EPO) on the 5th local time, Huawei will apply for a total of 3,544 patents to the EPO in 2021, becoming the company with the largest number of patents applied to the EPO last year. Samsung (3439 items) and LG (2422 items) ranked second and third respectively.

It is reported that in 2020, Samsung Electronics applied for 3,276 patents to the EPO, ranking first, but it was overtaken by Huawei in just one year.

In addition, OPPO, ZTE, Baidu, Xiaomi and Tencent are also in the top 50 of this list.

Beyond Samsung! Huawei has applied for 3,544 patents in Europe: ranking first

The report shows that the number of patent applications received by the EPO last year totaled 188,600, a year-on-year increase of 4.5%. Among them, the field of digital communication has the fastest growth, with a year-on-year increase of 8.2%; medical technology (8.1%), computer technology (7.8%), and electronic machinery (6.4%) are followed by.

It is understood that the top five patent application countries are the United States, Germany, Japan, China and France. The increase in the number of patent applications filed by the EPO in 2021 is mainly driven by the number of patent applications from China and the United States.

Aidan Kendrick, chief business analyst at the European Patent Office, said in an interview that in the past ten years, the number of patent applications received by the European Patent Office from China has increased by four times; "Very dynamic development trend".