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SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT INC

Overview
  • Total Patents
    96
About

SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT INC has a total of 96 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1991. It filed its patents most often in Japan, Australia and EPO (European Patent Office). Its main competitors in its focus markets machines, audio-visual technology and environmental technology are NAKANO TOSHIHISA, UEDA KENJIRO and ALESIS.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT INCs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Hughes David A 12
#2 Sugimoto Kazuyoshi 7
#3 Ikeda Jiro 6
#4 Carpenter Matthew A 6
#5 Kucsera Paul J 5
#6 Aoshima Kazuhito 5
#7 Kadin Jeffrey B 4
#8 Moss Pamela M 4
#9 Nee Han H 4
#10 Kobayashi Shinkichi 4

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
JP2006004593A Optical disk manufacturing method and optical disk manufacturing device
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JP2004161332A Method and apparatus for incorporating booklet into case
US2004034536A1 System and method for selecting a music channel
JP2004078418A Method for selling content
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JP2004018256A Suction type conveyance device
AU2002312471A1 Method for distributing large files to multiple recipients
CN1541359A Stacked stream for providing content to multiple types of client devices
JP2003345754A Method for authenticating terminal
WO02086659A2 Super distribution of music
AU2002254632A1 Direct consumer to content provider transaction model and system for downloading digital content
JP2003228844A Method for cutting optical disk master, and optical cutting apparatus for the same
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JP2002197655A Disk-like recording medium
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