TBK
Public patent records for TBK, 1978–2024: 14,774 patent families shared with other firms for 508 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
- 14,774
- 1978–2024. One family can be counted more than once.
- Activity 2016–2020
- 2,004
- Distinct families per year, summed over the last five complete years. 2021 onward is still being published.
- Clients (applicants)
- 508
- Applicants named on these families, all recorded years. Not a full client list.
- Firms shown below
- 5
Activity trend (2017–2026)
- Scope
- TBK · Europe
- Filing years
- 2017–2024
- 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.
View annual counts
| Year | Distinct families per year |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 370 |
| 2018 | 442 |
| 2019 | 224 |
| 2020 | 381 |
| 2021 · preliminary | 441 |
| 2022 · preliminary | 608 |
| 2023 · preliminary | 228 |
| 2024 · preliminary | 103 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs or for projecting or viewing them; apparatus or arrangements employing analogous techniques using waves other than optical waves; accessories thereforIPC/CPC G03B | 2.5% | 4.7× |
| Typewriters; selective printing mechanisms, i.e. mechanisms printing otherwise than from a forme; correction of typographical errorsIPC/CPC B41J | 2.4% | 3.4× |
| Propulsion of electrically-propelled vehicles; supplying electric power for auxiliary equipment of electrically-propelled vehicles; electrodynamic brake systems for vehicles in general; magnetic suspension or levitation for vehicles; monitoring operating variables of electrically-propelled vehicles; electric safety devices for electrically-propelled vehiclesIPC/CPC B60L | 3.2% | 3.2× |
| Pictorial communication, e.g. televisionIPC/CPC H04N | 10.0% | 2.7× |
| Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredientsIPC/CPC C08K | 4.0% | 2.4× |
Yearly counts for 2018–2022, added up: 3,231 of 3,537 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.
- HGF14,172 shared patent families
- D Young & Co LLP15,773 shared patent families
- Boult Wade Tennant13,501 shared patent families
- Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff13,412 shared patent families
- J A Kemp13,142 shared patent families
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Filing activity
Recorded patent families across the filing years you choose.
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Named clients
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