- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A61L - Methods or apparatus for sterilising materials or objects in general; disinfection, sterilisation or deodorisation of air; chemical aspects of bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles; materials for bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles
- A61L 27/18 - Macromolecular materials obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds
Patent holdings for IPC class A61L 27/18
Total number of patents in this class: 2697
10-year publication summary
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205
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263
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277
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267
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331
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278
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301
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223
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185
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77
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Tepha, Inc. | 233 |
72 |
| Ethicon, Inc. | 1310 |
38 |
| Allergan, Inc. | 2600 |
36 |
| Toray Industries, Inc. | 6652 |
35 |
| University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education | 2912 |
30 |
| The Regents of the University of California | 18943 |
27 |
| FUJIFILM Corporation | 27102 |
23 |
| The Regents of the University of Michigan | 4409 |
23 |
| The University of Akron | 674 |
23 |
| Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. | 8794 |
21 |
| Board of Regents, The University of Texas System | 5370 |
20 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, LLC | 2880 |
20 |
| The Johns Hopkins University | 5377 |
19 |
| Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc. | 3184 |
18 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 9795 |
17 |
| DSM IP Assets B.V. | 5856 |
16 |
| Abyrx, Inc. | 83 |
15 |
| Biorez, Inc. | 23 |
15 |
| The Secant Group, LLC | 109 |
14 |
| Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique | 9632 |
13 |
| Other owners | 2202 |