Figure 22 shows the number of patent families that have been filed in 1, 2 or 3 etc. patent jurisdictions, to provide an understanding of the type of IP strategy by applicants in the assistive devices and technologies for visually and hearing impaired persons.
24,108 (68.4%) patent families out of the 35,251 in total in the assistive devices and technologies for visually and hearing impaired persons have been filed in just a single territory, this predominantly being the profile of the Japanese, Russian and Chinese based entities within the dataset.
Only 2825 (8%) of patent families have been filed in 2 locations. Assessing the 4003 patent families that have filed in 5 or more locations (11.4%) these inventions and the applicants behind them, due to the expense of these patent families, naturally become more interesting in terms of qualifying the commercial interest of corporations and other organizations in assistive devices and technologies for visually and hearing impaired persons technology.
Figure 22 - Assessment of the Patent Protection Strategy of Assistive Devices and Technologies for Visually and Hearing Impaired Persons Patent Applicants; Distribution of Number of Subsequent Filing Events across Landscape
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