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FORD GLOBAL TECH INC

Overview
  • Total Patents
    3,839
  • GoodIP Patent Rank
    145,235
  • Filing trend
    ⇩ 50.0%
About

FORD GLOBAL TECH INC has a total of 3,839 patent applications. It decreased the IP activity by 50.0%. Its first patent ever was published in 1992. It filed its patents most often in United States, EPO (European Patent Office) and United Kingdom. Its main competitors in its focus markets engines, pumps and turbines, environmental technology and transport are CUMMINS INC, FEV GMBH and KURTZ ERIC.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing FORD GLOBAL TECH INCs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Cullen Michael John 117
#2 Surnilla Gopichandra 89
#3 Ma Thomas Tsoi Hei 65
#4 Hepburn Jeffrey Scott 58
#5 Sun Jing 57
#6 Russell John David 53
#7 Grieser Klemens 53
#8 Bidner David Karl 52
#9 Kotwicki Allan Joseph 50
#10 Ma Thomas Tsoi-Hei 48

Latest patents

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