Müller Hoffmann & Partner
Public patent records for Müller Hoffmann & Partner, 1909–2025: 4,125 patent families shared with other firms for 235 clients (applicants). Sign in to explore the app’s partner network, selected filing periods, filing activity, and client relationships.
- Patent families shared with other firms
- 4,125
- 1909–2025. One family can be counted more than once.
- Activity 2016–2020
- 464
- Distinct families per year, summed over the last five complete years. 2021 onward is still being published.
- Clients (applicants)
- 235
- Applicants named on these families, all recorded years. Not a full client list.
- Firms shown below
- 5
Activity trend (2017–2026)
- Scope
- Müller Hoffmann & Partner · Europe
- Filing years
- 2017–2025
- Unit
- Distinct families per year
2021–2026 are preliminary. Patent filings publish about 18 months after filing, and foreign filings can enter later, so these counts are still filling in.
Each family counts once within a year. A family may recur in multiple years.
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| Year | Distinct families per year |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 123 |
| 2018 | 74 |
| 2019 | 81 |
| 2020 | 52 |
| 2021 · preliminary | 44 |
| 2022 · preliminary | 49 |
| 2023 · preliminary | 13 |
| 2024 · preliminary | 7 |
| 2025 · preliminary | 1 |
Technology fields it focuses on
Fields where this firm's share of patent families is well above the average for Europe firms, 2018–2022.
| Field | Share of its families | vs Europe average |
|---|---|---|
| Inorganic semiconductor devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiationIPC/CPC H10F | 9.6% | 30.4× |
| Pictorial communication, e.g. televisionIPC/CPC H04N | 29.3% | 7.8× |
| Radio direction-finding; radio navigation; determining distance or velocity by use of radio waves; locating or presence-detecting by use of the reflection or reradiation of radio waves; analogous arrangements using other wavesIPC/CPC G01S | 11.5% | 6.0× |
| Semiconductor devices not covered by class H10IPC/CPC H01L | 17.9% | 5.2× |
| Wireless communication networksIPC/CPC H04W | 25.1% | 2.4× |
Yearly counts for 2018–2022, added up: 873 of 922 families carry an IPC or CPC classification. Shares are of those classified families, and one family can fall in several fields.
Frequently associated firms
Firms that most often appear on the same patent families. One family can be counted more than once, so these are not unique totals.
Similar Europe firms
Yearly counts since 1990, added up. One family can be counted more than once.
- Elkington and Fife LLP4,133 shared patent families
- Hoefer & Partner Patentanwälte mbB4,058 shared patent families
- Norton Rose Fulbright4,220 shared patent families
- Weickmann & Weickmann PartmbB4,242 shared patent families
- SSM Sandmair3,979 shared patent families
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