On January 10, 2023, the patent service agency IFI Claim released its 2022 annual statistical report, showing that BOE (BOE) ranked 11th in the US patent licensing list with 2,195 patents granted, ranking among the top 20 in the world for five consecutive years. Li Xinguo, vice president of BOE and head of the Technology and Intellectual Property Management Center, said that BOE will invest 12.4 billion yuan in research and development in 2021, has established a sound patent management system, focuses on high-value patents, and continues to carry out research and development of basic cutting-edge technologies.
According to the data provided by Wisdom Bud to China Business News, in the field of semiconductors, BOE applied for 242 invention patents in 2022, and authorized 95 patents for invention; the cumulative number of patent applications for invention was 1,086, and the cumulative number of authorized patents for invention was 1,127. Among the 1,127 authorized invention patents related to semiconductors, 679 patents are related to the core concept of semiconductors, and other core concepts involved include array substrates, display devices, thin film transistors, display technologies, gate electrodes, display panels, and drain electrodes. , transistors, source electrodes, etc.
In 2022, TCL Huaxing (according to the statistics of the publication date) applied for 46 invention patents, 25 of which were authorized for invention patents, and the cumulative number of applications for invention patents was 622, and the cumulative number of authorized invention patents was 633. Among the 633 semiconductor-related authorized patents, the core concept is the number of semiconductor patents 351, and other core concepts involved include thin film transistors, oxide semiconductors, array substrates, gate insulating layers, metal layers, gate electrodes, insulating layers , pixel electrodes, array panels, etc.
TCL CSOT told CBN reporters that TCL CSOT ranks eighth among global companies and fourth among Chinese companies in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) 2021 patent application list with 1,954 PCT international patent applications. As of the second quarter of 2022, TCL CSOT has accumulated 56,793 global patent applications and 19,826 global patent granteds, of which over 95% are invention patents, and its independent patents have covered the United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea and other countries and regions.
From the perspective of investment layout, the above two companies have established multiple subsidiaries in semiconductors and chips.