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FIRST SOLAR INC

Overview
  • Total Patents
    879
  • GoodIP Patent Rank
    6,236
  • Filing trend
    ⇩ 11.0%
About

FIRST SOLAR INC has a total of 879 patent applications. It decreased the IP activity by 11.0%. Its first patent ever was published in 1993. It filed its patents most often in United States, WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and EPO (European Patent Office). Its main competitors in its focus markets environmental technology, semiconductors and surface technology and coating are FIRST SOLAR MALAYSIA SDN BHD, BULLER BENYAMIN and TSMC SOLAR LTD.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing FIRST SOLAR INCs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Buller Benyamin 143
#2 Gloeckler Markus 118
#3 Zhao Zhibo 118
#4 Powell Rick C 88
#5 Xiong Gang 74
#6 Shao Rui 70
#7 Gupta Akhlesh 55
#8 Roberts Dale 54
#9 Trivedi Jigish 48
#10 Liao Feng 40

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