The Hungarian patent and protection of the Hungarian took great momentum

• In Hungary, the number of domestic patent notifications increased by 34 percent in 2024
• Computer technology that includes artificial intelligence leads the European Patent Top List
• China has confirmed its leading position in the number of international patent reports
• The European Patent Office received 199,264 patent notifications in 2024
• The Hungarian universities also revived the mood for patent

Mild growth of industrial law protection activity can be observed at international level, but there have been significant rearrangements between individual countries, companies and technological areas. THE According to Wipo (World Intellectual Property Organization) data In 2024, nearly 274,000 international patent announcements were received by nearly 274,000-only half a percent more than in the previous year (PCT). China has strengthened its leading position in international patent (more than 70,000) and design patterns, while the United States is leading the US. L’Oréal leads the list among the applicants. Egis Pharmaceuticals Ltd. ranked 6th on the list of notifications from 18th in 2023.

AI has heated the patent

Growth is mainly due to the rapid development of artificial intelligence, digital communication, and pure energy and battery technologies. The artificial intelligence (especially the neural networks) It revolutionizes many industries, such as medical technology imaging, agriculture, self -driving vehicles and bank applications. To the European Patent Office (EPO) 199 264 patent notifications were submitted From all over the world in 2024, which is almost the same as a year earlier (199 452). European Member States accounted for nearly half of patent notifications (43%), the list of countries is run by the United States by nearly a quarter (24%), followed by Germany (12.6%), Japan (10.6%), China (10.1%) and Korean (6.6%). Switzerland continues to be in the forefront of European patent announcements per capita.

For the first time last year, the technology, which includes artificial intelligence, was the most innovative area, with a total of nearly 17,000 European patent announcements. Electrical machines, equipment and energy sector reached the largest increase of nearly 9 percent, with the main driving force of pure energy technologies, especially for battery There were related developments. Meanwhile, digital communication, which covers inventions related to mobile networks, fell 6.3 percent.

According to the EPO report, the most innovative companies at the head of his rank in 2024 Samsung was standingahead of Huaweit, in third place is LG, followed by Qualcomm and RTX. The ten most active players included four European companies, including Siemens, BASF, Ericsson and Robert Bosch.

22 percent of European patent applications submitted in the previous year come from individual inventors or small and medium-sized enterprises. And in the quarter of the patent announcements, at least one woman is invented as an inventor based on EPO statistics.

Spectacular boom in the field of Hungarian protection

139 European patent applications were submitted from Hungary to the European Patent Office in 2024, an increase of 27.5 percent compared to a year earlier activity. This result is not only the highest European patent announcement number to date, but also the largest annual increase in the last five years – read on the office news page.

According to WIPO data, the number of Hungarian announcements also increased in the international (PCT) system: 167 international patent announcements from Hungary, as opposed to 149 last year.

The role of artificial intelligence is also strengthened at the domestic level: between 2020 and 2024, a total of 88 national patent reports, which contains neural networks, received the SZTNH, which tripled during this period, according to the Office. Over the past two years, the proportion of these special AI solutions has reached 4 percent of domestic announcements, which reflects global trends well. At AAZ EPO, notifications to neural networks accounted for about 5 percent of the total volume during the same period.

Szabolcs Farkas, President of the SZTNH saidTo The fact that the number of domestic industrial law protection submissions to the office increased in almost every form of protection in 2024, and the number of protection in force and valid in Hungary has increased, which is an outstanding result. Industrial law protection activity is also increasing at domestic universities, which is also reflected in the announcement numbers.

At home, the SZTNH recorded 35,950 patents in force last year, a 3 percent increase compared to the previous year. The leading sector remains the pharmaceutical industry (with 13,389 European patents) followed by the instrument, chemical, and electronics and electronic equipment. In 2024, most Hungarian patents of Hungarian origin were Gedeon Richter Pharmaceuticals (52). Domestic universities increased the number of patents in force at home by 20 percent. The list is run by the University of Pécs, followed by the University of Szeged, Semmelweis University and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

In our country in 2024 34 percent more a patent notification They did, as a year earlier, and the number of Hungarian notifiers increased by 26 percent. The list of applicants is kept by universities, the University of Debrecen 30 and the University of Miskolc 16 reported 16 announcements last year.

There is also a significant increase in the use of use in use (43%), with national design sampling announcements 12%and national trademark announcements increased by 4 percent compared to 2023. Richter-Gedeon Plc.