Blockchain Innovation - A Patent Analytics Report

Blockchain is hyped as highly transformative and disruptive. This report is designed to help businesses and governments assess the degree to which blockchain technology is critical for continued economic growth.

Blockchain trends, innovators and commercial players

Blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way.

It is a foundational technology with the potential to underpin new ways of connecting and recording information across all technology areas.

Recent patent applications show blockchain technology is an area with strong growth.

Since 2013, patenting of blockchain-related technologies has exploded, with annual growth of 140 -230%. Applicants are commonly large corporations or newly established companies. The young nature of the technology is reflected in the fact that six of the top ten companies were founded in the last ten years.

This report outlines findings from patent families filed since 1999, analysing trends, innovators, filing destinations and commercial players in this space.