PHILIP MORRIS INC has a total of 2,472 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1956. It filed its patents most often in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Its main competitors in its focus markets consumer goods, machines and packaging and shipping are IMP TOBACCO CO LTD, BAT CIGARETTENFAB GMBH and BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (GERMANY) GMBH.
# | Country | Total Patents | |
---|---|---|---|
#1 | United States | 917 | |
#2 | Canada | 210 | |
#3 | United Kingdom | 162 | |
#4 | Germany | 137 | |
#5 | Switzerland | 120 | |
#6 | Australia | 108 | |
#7 | France | 102 | |
#8 | EPO (European Patent Office) | 99 | |
#9 | Brazil | 77 | |
#10 | Spain | 53 | |
#11 | Finland | 47 | |
#12 | Italy | 36 | |
#13 | Sweden | 36 | |
#14 | Japan | 35 | |
#15 | Netherlands | 34 | |
#16 | Belgium | 28 | |
#17 | Argentina | 26 | |
#18 | Norway | 25 | |
#19 | USSR (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics) | 24 | |
#20 | WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) | 23 | |
#21 | Philippines | 22 | |
#22 | South Africa | 22 | |
#23 | Austria | 20 | |
#24 | Denmark | 18 | |
#25 | Israel | 12 | |
#26 | Malaysia | 12 | |
#27 | Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) | 8 | |
#28 | China | 7 | |
#29 | Bulgaria | 6 | |
#30 | Mexico | 6 | |
#31 | Ireland | 5 | |
#32 | Dominican Republic | 4 | |
#33 | India | 4 | |
#34 | Portugal | 4 | |
#35 | Egypt | 3 | |
#36 | Greece | 3 | |
#37 | Hong Kong | 3 | |
#38 | Republic of Korea | 3 | |
#39 | African Intellectual Property Organization | 3 | |
#40 | Ecuador | 2 | |
#41 | New Zealand | 2 | |
#42 | Cyprus | 1 | |
#43 | Czechia | 1 | |
#44 | Iceland | 1 | |
#45 | Monaco | 1 |
# | Industry | |
---|---|---|
#1 | Consumer goods | |
#2 | Machines | |
#3 | Packaging and shipping | |
#4 | Machine tools | |
#5 | Measurement | |
#6 | Organic fine chemistry |
# | Technology | |
---|---|---|
#1 | Tobacco | |
#2 | Cigarettes | |
#3 | Machines for making cigarettes | |
#4 | Unspecified technologies | |
#5 | Containers for goods storage | |
#6 | Unspecified technologies | |
#7 | Hand-held cutting tools | |
#8 | Analysing materials | |
#9 | Heterocyclic compounds | |
#10 | Shaping of plastics |
# | Name | Total Patents |
---|---|---|
#1 | Keritsis Gus D | 74 |
#2 | Utsch Francis V | 54 |
#3 | Houminer Yoram | 53 |
#4 | Aument Patrick E | 50 |
#5 | Nichols Walter A | 45 |
#6 | Rainer Norman B | 39 |
#7 | Martin Peter | 38 |
#8 | Grubbs Harvey J | 38 |
#9 | Braginetz Paul A | 36 |
#10 | Newsome Reginald W | 35 |
Publication | Filing date | Title |
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US6860273B2 | Cigarette with adsorbent at tip end thereof | |
US6837369B2 | Slide notch cigarette pack sleeve | |
US6698436B1 | Process and apparatus for assembling filter holders for use in a smoking machine | |
US6803545B2 | Electrically heated smoking system and methods for supplying electrical power from a lithium ion power source | |
US6769437B2 | Use of oxyhydroxide compounds for reducing carbon monoxide in the mainstream smoke of a cigarette | |
US6712455B2 | Piezoelectrically driven printhead array | |
US6615840B1 | Electrical smoking system and method | |
US6786220B2 | Tobacco curing barn | |
US6708734B2 | Vibrational removal of excess particulate matter | |
US6744503B2 | Monitoring of vapor phase polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons | |
US6789547B1 | Carbon technology | |
US6596125B2 | Method and apparatus for applying a material to a web | |
US6637439B2 | Tobacco smoking mixture for smoking articles such as cigarettes | |
US6656412B2 | Compaction system for particles in particle filled cavities of an article | |
US6837281B2 | Apparatus and method for filling cavities with metered amounts of granular particles | |
US6701936B2 | Cigarette with smoke constituent attenuator | |
US6533395B2 | Inkjet printhead with high nozzle to pressure activator ratio | |
US6384359B1 | Inspection system | |
US6755200B1 | Method for reduction of tobacco specific nitrosamines | |
US6564808B1 | Method for reduction of tobacco specific nitrosamines |