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BASF AG

Overview
  • Total Patents
    132,653
  • GoodIP Patent Rank
    116,619
About

BASF AG has a total of 132,653 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1877. It filed its patents most often in Germany, United States and EPO (European Patent Office). Its main competitors in its focus markets organic fine chemistry, macromolecular chemistry and polymers and basic materials chemistry are ICI PLC, BAYER AG and CHEMIE LINZ AG.

Patent filings in countries

World map showing BASF AGs patent filings in countries
# Country Total Patents
#1 Germany 30,594
#2 United States 14,444
#3 EPO (European Patent Office) 12,660
#4 France 7,307
#5 WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) 6,958
#6 Japan 6,585
#7 Canada 5,808
#8 United Kingdom 5,508
#9 China 4,290
#10 Australia 3,992
#11 Switzerland 3,267
#12 Brazil 2,689
#13 South Africa 2,312
#14 Austria 2,020
#15 Belgium 1,745
#16 Italy 1,546
#17 Taiwan 1,518
#18 Republic of Korea 1,448
#19 Mexico 1,365
#20 Israel 1,295
#21 Argentina 1,197
#22 Hungary 1,153
#23 Norway 1,042
#24 Spain 1,037
#25 Netherlands 950
#26 Denmark 930
#27 Poland 848
#28 Czechia 715
#29 New Zealand 655
#30 Finland 654
#31 Sweden 634
#32 Malaysia 571
#33 Slovakia 419
#34 Ukraine 350
#35 Russian Federation 326
#36 EAPO (Eurasian Patent Organization) 293
#37 Bulgaria 266
#38 Indonesia 255
#39 Czechoslovakia 227
#40 Ireland 204
#41 Colombia 203
#42 USSR (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics) 184
#43 German Democratic Republic 178
#44 Uruguay 170
#45 Peru 164
#46 India 146
#47 Greece 128
#48 Croatia 119
#49 Portugal 99
#50 Honduras 95
#51 Costa Rica 93
#52 Turkey 82
#53 Morocco 80
#54 Chile 77
#55 Singapore 71
#56 Ecuador 67
#57 African Regional Industrial Property Organization 66
#58 Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) 61
#59 Hong Kong 55
#60 Estonia 51
#61 African Intellectual Property Organization 49
#62 Saudi Arabia 44
#63 Philippines 43
#64 Romania 43
#65 Egypt 39
#66 Slovenia 30
#67 Serbia 28
#68 Georgia 25
#69 Iceland 15
#70 Luxembourg 14
#71 Latvia 11
#72 Republic of Moldova 10
#73 Lithuania 9
#74 Kenya 7
#75 Algeria 4
#76 Dominican Republic 3
#77 Cuba 2
#78 Panama 2
#79 Tunisia 2
#80 Cyprus 1
#81 Gulf Cooperation Council 1
#82 Guatemala 1
#83 Montenegro 1
#84 Thailand 1
#85 Tajikistan 1
#86 Zimbabwe 1

Patent filings per year

Chart showing BASF AGs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Ammermann Eberhard 3,111
#2 Strathmann Siegfried 2,852
#3 Lorenz Gisela 2,586
#4 Sauter Hubert 1,879
#5 Scherer Maria 1,867
#6 Grote Thomas 1,855
#7 Stierl Reinhard 1,782
#8 Westphalen Karl-Otto 1,503
#9 Walter Helmut 1,395
#10 Schelberger Klaus 1,197

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