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COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO

Overview
  • Total Patents
    39,974
  • GoodIP Patent Rank
    302
  • Filing trend
    ⇩ 42.0%
About

COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO has a total of 39,974 patent applications. It decreased the IP activity by 42.0%. Its first patent ever was published in 1948. It filed its patents most often in United States, Australia and Canada. Its main competitors in its focus markets pharmaceuticals, organic fine chemistry and basic materials chemistry are PZ CUSSONS INT LTD, HUANG SHENGHUA and AEGROTI SALUS SUPREMA LEX ASSL.

Patent filings in countries

World map showing COLGATE PALMOLIVE COs patent filings in countries
# Country Total Patents
#1 United States 4,406
#2 Australia 2,949
#3 Canada 2,795
#4 EPO (European Patent Office) 2,169
#5 WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) 1,967
#6 Mexico 1,820
#7 Brazil 1,786
#8 South Africa 1,512
#9 China 1,482
#10 United Kingdom 1,094
#11 France 1,039
#12 Germany 891
#13 Denmark 870
#14 Argentina 835
#15 Taiwan 795
#16 Switzerland 779
#17 Russian Federation 751
#18 Colombia 704
#19 Italy 701
#20 New Zealand 658
#21 Philippines 633
#22 Sweden 615
#23 Norway 577
#24 Belgium 576
#25 Japan 538
#26 Malaysia 526
#27 Spain 506
#28 Ireland 504
#29 Greece 480
#30 Portugal 455
#31 Netherlands 438
#32 Republic of Korea 429
#33 Austria 392
#34 Israel 382
#35 Hong Kong 355
#36 Finland 253
#37 Poland 251
#38 India 229
#39 Singapore 229
#40 Zambia 146
#41 Hungary 134
#42 Luxembourg 115
#43 Turkey 112
#44 Chile 103
#45 Zimbabwe 98
#46 Dominican Republic 90
#47 Uruguay 88
#48 Czechia 83
#49 Egypt 77
#50 Ecuador 66
#51 Panama 52
#52 Peru 51
#53 Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) 48
#54 African Intellectual Property Organization 44
#55 Romania 42
#56 Costa Rica 37
#57 Morocco 34
#58 Slovakia 32
#59 Bulgaria 31
#60 Honduras 25
#61 Malawi 12
#62 German Democratic Republic 11
#63 Ukraine 11
#64 Nicaragua 9
#65 Czechoslovakia 7
#66 Guatemala 7
#67 Algeria 6
#68 Indonesia 4
#69 Kenya 4
#70 Saudi Arabia 4
#71 Tunisia 4
#72 EAPO (Eurasian Patent Organization) 3
#73 El Salvador 3
#74 Viet Nam 3
#75 Cyprus 2
#76 Georgia 1
#77 Croatia 1
#78 Monaco 1
#79 Montenegro 1
#80 Malta 1

Patent filings per year

Chart showing COLGATE PALMOLIVE COs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Prencipe Michael 1,565
#2 Gaffar Abdul 1,120
#3 Moskovich Robert 974
#4 Broze Guy 716
#5 Hohlbein Douglas J 695
#6 Xu Guofeng 645
#7 Subramanyam Ravi 606
#8 Pan Long 577
#9 Chopra Suman 554
#10 Jimenez Eduardo 549

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