GREEN100^® Index 2023 (Edition 2)

World’s Leading Organization Innovating for Our Green Future

The State of Quality Patents in GREENTECH

The Sagacious IP GREEN100^® Journey

Key Findings

GREEN100^® Organization Contribute

GREEN100^® Headquarters

GREEN100^® Average Geographical Spread

Combined Average Geographical Spread of the GREEN100® Organizations is 2.17 which means that on average each patent ﬁled by organizations included in the GREEN100® is published on average in about 2 countries.
Only 16 organizations featuring in the top 100 have Average Geographical Spread greater than 3.
DEXCOM INC, BBK Electronic Corp, Corning Inc and JOHNSON & JOHNSON are the companies with Average Geographical Spread more than 4.

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Green Patent Origins & Impact

GREEN100^® Patent Origins

The first patent application filed by the GREEN100® Organizations are observed to be limited to the 43 unique countries with top countries being Japan (28.24%), China (26.58%) and USA (17.52%).
China has witnessed signiﬁcant increase in the patenting activity among top 100 organizations. It has increased its share by more than 300% in the current assessment period.
United states while ranked 3rd in the Edition 2 Ranking in terms of number of Green patents ﬁled, however, 23.86% of the high-quality patents are originated from USA. China accounts for 17.28% of high-quality patents followed by Korea which has 15.75% share.

*The first filing countries (priority countries) of the GREEN100^® Patent Portfolio have been considered to generate the above illustration. The illustration highlights percentage distribution of patent families among research countries.

GREEN100^® Impact Areas

When considering the industries impacted by GREEN100® Organizations, Energy and Power witnesses highest patenting activity. Patenting activity in Industrial Machinery and Metal processing show an increase compared to patenting activity of the ranked organizations in Edition 1 ﬁndings.
Transportation – Motor Vehicles and Parts is the next most targeted industry with 16.48% share and similar to the Edition 2 study, is the 2nd largest industry in terms of overall patent ﬁling.
Waste management is one of the biggest impact areas if we consider the entire, Green Patent portfolio, however, top 100 organizations contribute just 1.22% innovation share in this area.

*The Y02+ and Y04S+ sub-classifications of GREEN100^® Patent Portfolio have been studied to define the industry nomenclature and derive the above insights. The illustration highlights the percentage distribution of patent families among various industry areas.

Data Coverage

(November 2020 - October 2021)

Quality Vs Quantity

Quality Innovation for a Green Future

Quality innovation in the domain of Green Technologies is imperative for creating a Green Future. For instance, 40 organizations which feature in the top 100 based on their Absolute Green Patent Portfolio size did not eventually ﬁnd place in the top 100 as the ranking considers Quality of patents along with Quantity.
Companies like DEXCOM INC, TESLA NP, AT&T INC and BLACKBERRY LTD have less than 100 patents in their Green Patent Portfolio.

Assessment Framework

All the organizations with share in Green Patent Portfolio, have been evaluated using an assessment framework that relies on multiple parameters indicative of three key components using the Sagacious Patent Portfolio Quality Mix (SPPQM) Methodology. These components are,

Methodology

The GREEN100® Index Ranking is based on The Sagacious Patent Portfolio Quality Mix (SPPQM) methodology which has been reﬁned and strengthened over the years at Sagacious. SPPQM has been used by various mid and large sized organizations to make strategic decisions such as portfolio pruning, benchmarking, licensing and/or acquisition etc. The SPPQM methodology offers ﬂexibility to derive the outcome based on the nature of the project. For GREEN100® Index Ranking, 15 distinct objective parameters have been considered to evaluate the patent portfolio’s quality. The methodology is also validated through focused deliberations with Industry experts particularly to deﬁne the scope and computations applied to arrive at the rankings.