Global IP Matrix - Issue 6
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020 to all our readers. It has been a fantastic year for The Global IP Matrix, and 2020 is shaping up to become an even bigger and productive year for us. We have kept to our promise of giving our readers diverse news from the IP world straight from the frontline and hope you agree! We want to thank all our amazing contributors and give them credit for all the content they have submitted to us over the year. Without their expert knowledge, we would not be where we are today. We endeavor to provide our readers with engaging and up to date topics, written by specialists in the industry at all levels with an unbiased approach. Our ethos is ‘each one teach one', shared knowledge is key. We look forward to continuing to provide the right content to keep you wanting to read more in the coming year. Please enjoy this issue and look out for us again in a few months. From all of us at The Global IP Matrix & Northon’s Media, PR & Marketing
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020 to all our readers.
It has been a fantastic year for The Global IP Matrix, and 2020 is shaping up to become an even bigger and productive year for us. We have kept to our promise of giving our readers diverse news from the IP world straight from the frontline and hope you agree!
We want to thank all our amazing contributors and give them credit for all the content they have submitted to us over the year. Without their expert knowledge, we would not be where we are today.
We endeavor to provide our readers with engaging and up to date topics, written by specialists in the industry at all levels with an unbiased approach. Our ethos is ‘each one teach one', shared knowledge is key.
We look forward to continuing to provide the right content to keep you wanting to read more in the coming year. Please enjoy this issue and look out for us again in a few months.
From all of us at The Global IP Matrix & Northon’s Media, PR & Marketing
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A Global Analysis on
Pilotless
Automobiles
As discussed by Zhipeng Liu at incoPat
www.incopat.com
The Pilotless automobile is a kind
of intelligent automobile, which is
also referred to as a wheeled mobile
robot. Since the 1970s, countries like
America, Britain, and Germany have
been researching pilotless automobiles,
and there have been breakthroughs
in feasibility and practicability since
then.
become more and more fierce among high-tech companies all around the world. Meanwhile,
there was a prominent drop in patent applications in 2018, which incidentally doesn’t
necessarily represent a downtrend since there is a time lag between application and publication.
Integrated by technologies such as:
• automatic control
• architecture
• artificial intelligence
• visual computing
the pilotless automobile is an outcome of the
highly developed technology of computer
science, pattern recognition, and intelligence
control. It can also be recognised as a sign of
a country’s scientific strength and industrial
level.
This article did research on 10,793 patents,
which were meticulously filtered and
connected with relative technologies. This
article provides a macro analysis from the
perspective of the patent application trend,
global patent distribution, key applicants,
and technology breakdown to estimate the
market expectation of the involved enterprises
and the future market layout of the pilotless
automobile.
Figure 1, Global Application Trend on Patents of Pilotless Automobile
Global Distribution
Among the 10,793 applications for the pilotless automobile, China, as we might expect, takes
the majority with 4196 patents. This shows that there are many Chinese companies involved in
this industry and working on related technologies. From a global perspective, following Google,
many established auto companies like Honda, Toyota, and Volvo are all involved in making
patent portfolios in the area of the pilotless automobile.
Global Application Trend
Since the 1970s, patent applications on the
pilotless automobile were put through two
stages. One is from 1976 to 2012, during
which applications stayed at a low quantity
(which can be connected with the fact that
AI technology was still at slow growth).
However, since the year 2013, a dramatic
rise of applications can be identified, which
may have benefited from the development
of AI technology and unmanned vehicle
technology.
Driven by Google Inc, competition in the
patent layout of related technologies has
Figure 2, Global Application Distribution on
Patents of Pilotless Automobile
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