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- C - Chemistry; metallurgy
- C23C - Coating metallic material; coating material with metallic material; surface treatment of metallic material by diffusion into the surface, by chemical conversion or substitution; coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering, by ion implantation or by chemical vapour deposition, in general
- C23C 18/16 - Chemical coating by decomposition of either liquid compounds or solutions of the coating forming compounds, without leaving reaction products of surface material in the coating; Contact plating by reduction or substitution, i.e. electroless plating
Patent holdings for IPC class C23C 18/16
Total number of patents in this class: 1772
10-year publication summary
227
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268
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221
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197
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173
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168
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115
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116
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95
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27
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2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
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Tokyo Electron Limited | 11599 |
84 |
Atotech Deutschland GmbH | 586 |
76 |
Lam Research Corporation | 4775 |
37 |
Eastman Kodak Company | 3444 |
35 |
C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd. | 156 |
21 |
BYD Company Limited | 3700 |
19 |
Rtx Corporation | 8674 |
17 |
FUJIFILM Corporation | 27102 |
16 |
Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC | 637 |
16 |
Modumetal, Inc. | 72 |
14 |
LG Chem, Ltd. | 17205 |
13 |
Ebara Corporation | 1951 |
13 |
MacDermid Enthone Inc. | 237 |
13 |
Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG | 354 |
13 |
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation | 43934 |
12 |
JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation | 1576 |
12 |
Industrial Technology Research Institute | 4898 |
10 |
Averatek Corporation | 34 |
10 |
Solvay Specialty Polymers Italy S.p.A. | 704 |
10 |
The Boeing Company | 19843 |
9 |
Other owners | 1322 |