Global cosmetics patent research data released: L'Oreal Group tops the list!

Data show that in the past five years, global cosmetics patents accounted for 33.3% of the total number in the past 20 years, of which the number of Chinese patent families reached 17930, which is the region with the largest number of cosmetics patent families in the world. In the top five global cosmetics patent TOP30 rankings in the past five years, the L'Oréal Group topped the list with 1,368 patent families.

The number of patent families in China has reached 17930 in the past five years

Patents are territorialism, and the patent family refers to a collection of applications for a patent in different countries and regions. In the process of patent data statistics, the patent family is often used as a unit to avoid double calculation of the same invention.

This research data counts the number of global cosmetic patent families in the past 20 years. The data shows that from 2000 to 2008, the number of cosmetic patent families has generally been on a slower upward trend. There was a short-term negative growth in 2009. After 2010, the number of global cosmetic patent families has been increasing year by year.

It is worth noting that the number of global cosmetic patent families exceeded 8,000 for the first time in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 27.2%. In 2019, the number of global cosmetic patent families reached 10,421, a year-on-year increase of 4.86%, the best performance in nearly 20 years. According to statistics, global cosmetics patents accounted for 33.3% of the total number in the past 20 years.

The global TOP10 patent layout market in the past five years includes China, Japan, South Korea, the United States and other countries and regions. Among them, the number of patent families in China in the past five years has reached 17930, which is the largest regional market for cosmetics patent families in the world; Japan ranks second with 6221 in the past five years; South Korea ranks third with 5248. The number of patent families in China, Japan and South Korea accounted for over 80% of the total TOP10.

Global cosmetic patents involve multiple technologies. The data shows that in the past five years, the TOP15 technology focuses on skin treatment (improving skin quality), cosmetic ingredients, anti-aging, liquid skin care formulas, Plant Extracts, etc. Among them, the number of patent families involved in skin treatment is the largest in the past five years, accounting for 4158, accounting for 11.9% of the total number of TOP15 technology key patent families; the number of patent families involving cosmetic raw materials is 4130, ranking second; the patent families involving anti-aging The number is 3512, ranking the third.

According to the source country, 11 Japanese companies in the global TOP30 ranking of cosmetics patents in the past five years, accounting for 36.7% of the overall ratio; 4 companies from Germany, the United States and South Korea respectively; 2 companies from China, France and the Netherlands Companies are on the list; one company in Switzerland is on the list. The Chinese companies that entered the ranking are Guangzhou Celera Stem Cell Technology Co., Ltd. and Guangzhou Danqi Daily Chemical Factory Co., Ltd. In the past five years, Guangzhou Celera Stem Cell Technology Co., Ltd. has 309 global patent families, ranking 8th; Guangzhou Danqi Daily Chemical Co., Ltd. has 98 global patent families, ranking the 25th.

According to industry classification, 18 of the rankings belong to cosmetics and pharmaceutical companies, accounting for 60%; 9 belong to chemical material companies, accounting for 30%; 2 belong to asset operating institutions.There is one scientific research institution.

In terms of beauty and skin care products, in the past five years, the patents of cosmetics and pharmaceutical companies have focused on Mineral Oil, water phase, non-ionic surfactants, lactic acid bacteria, root extracts, Sodium Hyaluronate, containers, particle diameter and other fields. The patents of chemical material enterprises are concentrated in the fields of particle diameter, non-ionic surfactants, mineral oil, lactic acid bacteria, water phase, gene sequence, root extracts, etc. The patents of the asset operation organization are scattered in the fields of lactic acid bacteria, sodium hyaluronate, particle diameter, and stirring. The patents of scientific research institutions are mainly distributed in the field of agitation, and scattered in the fields of gene sequences and non-ionic surfactants.

In the past five years, L'Oréal Group's patents have focused on the fields of water phase, non-ionic surfactants, lactic acid bacteria, particle diameter, mineral oil, sodium hyaluronate, etc. The patents of Kao Group are concentrated in the fields of non-ionic indicating active agent, mineral oil, particle diameter, water phase, container, etc. Amorepacific Group's patents are concentrated in the fields of containers, lactic acid bacteria, root extracts, nonionic surfactants, and water. The patents of Guangzhou Celera Stem Cell Technology Co., Ltd. are concentrated in the root extract, sodium hyaluronate, polydimethylsiloxane, gene sequence and other areas.