Fun With Data - Numbers Don’t Count But…
IPR Daily is a Chinese site that specializes in the rapidly changing world of intellectual property. While there are many such sites that rank companies as to the number of IP application filings and grants that are generated each year across a variety of global and country IP registration sites, few break down those filings with as much detail. In fact we have never seen filings broken down for the very specific classification of ‘VR’, however based on filings between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021 IPR Daily published a list of the top 100 VR IP filers during that two year period. We note that in the case of IP filings, the number of filings is certainly secondary to the details contained in those filings, but we were curious as to which companies were active in the VR space, just from the numbers alone.
While Samsung Electronics has been relatively quiet as to its involvement in the VR space, having released the Samsung Odyssey+ headset back in October of 2018, they were the top filer, while Sony (SNE) an even older VR headset supplier, is readying its Playstation VR2 headset, announced all the way back in February of last year. A few others have had VR hardware products released over the years, particularly Facebook Huawei (pvt) Microsoft (MSFT), and Google (GOOG), but there are others on the list that might be a bit more surprising, such as the Ping An Group, a Chinese insurance conglomerate, while the three top Chinese smartphone manufacturers all made the top 25. Again, while filing numbers are not an indication as to products or technical capabilities and tend to favor the largest filers who have the largest legal staffs, it is interesting to see who has been filing in the VR space for the last two years.
While Samsung Electronics has been relatively quiet as to its involvement in the VR space, having released the Samsung Odyssey+ headset back in October of 2018, they were the top filer, while Sony (SNE) an even older VR headset supplier, is readying its Playstation VR2 headset, announced all the way back in February of last year. A few others have had VR hardware products released over the years, particularly Facebook Huawei (pvt) Microsoft (MSFT), and Google (GOOG), but there are others on the list that might be a bit more surprising, such as the Ping An Group, a Chinese insurance conglomerate, while the three top Chinese smartphone manufacturers all made the top 25. Again, while filing numbers are not an indication as to products or technical capabilities and tend to favor the largest filers who have the largest legal staffs, it is interesting to see who has been filing in the VR space for the last two years.
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