INSIGHT 01Fact
64%
64% of applications are in Computer technology
691 applications in this field, 547 of them in IPC G06F (Data processing) — the main axis of the portfolio.
Method: Field applications ÷ applications with IPC
Company patentsCommerce, cloud and digital infrastructure
COMPANY PATENT INTELLIGENCE
Alibaba Patent Portfolio Analysis
Explore publications across three separately reviewed entities: Alibaba Group Holding, Alibaba (China), and Alibaba Cloud Computing.
Partial name or date coverage · counts are lower boundsData as of 2026-10-29Data scope
- Search jurisdictions
- Worldwide
- Applicant-name basis
- Dataset-harmonized assignees (not verified current owners)
- Source search matches
- 1,101
- Published 2025-01-01 — 2025-12-31 · Source Google Patents
- Applicant names included in these statistics
- ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD · ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING CO LTD · ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD · ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
- Publication dates collected
- Not recorded in this snapshot
- Reviewed names not covered
- ALIBABA (CHINA) CO., LTD. · ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING CO., LTD. · ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD. · ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED · 阿里云计算有限公司 · 阿里巴巴集团控股有限公司 · 阿里巴巴（中国）有限公司
≥1,101docs
92 per month · peak 2025-12 (147)
Empty dashed outlines are uncollected periods, not zero. Dashed bars have partial name or date coverage.
01Key figures
- Applications
- 1,090
- By application number; publication and grant count once
- Invention
- 1,046
- 96% of applications
- Utility model
- 2
- 0.2% of applications
- Patent families
- 832
- By the source family ID
- Green technology
- —
- The source has no CPC codes
- Concentration
- 0.51HHI
- Sum of squared field shares; higher is more concentrated
INSIGHT 02Fact
0.2%
Utility models are 0.2%
2 utility models and 1,056 inventions. Structural and tooling improvements are often protected faster as utility models.
Method: Utility model documents ÷ all documents
02Technology landscape
1,088 applications with IPC codes are mapped to 35 fields using the WIPO IPC–Technology Concordance; area is the number of applications. Select a tile to see its IPC subclasses. An application can belong to several fields.
- Electrical engineering
- Instruments
03Rhythm
Publications per month in each field; brighter cells mean more. It shows which directions surge in particular months.
This chart covers collected documents published from 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31. Examination and publication processes affect this timing; it does not directly measure R&D investment in the same period.
| Technology field | 25-01 | 25-02 | 25-03 | 25-04 | 25-05 | 25-06 | 25-07 | 25-08 | 25-09 | 25-10 | 25-11 | 25-12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer technology | 52 | 58 | 52 | 36 | 40 | 44 | 47 | 50 | 83 | 49 | 77 | 106 |
| Audio-visual technology | 16 | 10 | 21 | 26 | 24 | 38 | 32 | 52 | 33 | 38 | 20 | 21 |
| Digital communication | 15 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 26 | 29 |
| IT methods for management | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Measurement | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Basic communication processes | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Semiconductors | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Medical technology | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Filing years of the collected applications
Documents in the current publication window are deduplicated by application number and grouped by filing year. These are not the company's complete annual filings; older applications may only be published or granted within this window.
- 20101
- 20171
- 20187
- 201913
- 202077
- 202144
- 202241
- 2023106
- 2024497
- 2025303Publication lag may still apply
Invention applications are generally published about 18 months after filing, or priority where claimed, and may be published earlier. Flags are estimated as of 2026-10-29. An unflagged year is still not necessarily complete; these counts cannot establish growth or contraction in R&D.
Multi-year evolution · With a longer collection window, this becomes a yearly view that marks the fastest-growing and shrinking fields.
04Strategy profile
Four reproducible structural ratios, with the other published companies on the same scale. Entity scopes and windows can differ, so read relative positions only — this is not a ranking.
Concentration
0.510.000.94
Position 12 of 20 published companies.
Method: Sum of squared field shares
Utility model share
0.2%0%33%
Position 7 of 20 published companies.
Method: Utility model documents ÷ all documents
Green technology share
—The source has no CPC codes, so this cannot be computed.
Method: Documents with CPC Y02 ÷ documents with CPC
Manufacturing and inspection share
0.9%0%50%
Position 16 of 20 published companies.
Method: Applications in measurement, chemical engineering, handling and machine tools ÷ all applications
05Collaboration
Organisations that filed jointly with the collected entities; line weight represents joint applications. Name-based candidates and reviewed relationships are labeled separately. Co-applications alone do not prove ownership.
UNIV TSINGHUA2Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING CO LTD ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
ALIBABA DAMOYUAN HANGZHOU TECHNOLOGY CO LTD1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
HANGZHOU ALICLOUD FEITIAN INFORMATION TECH CO LTD1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
HANGZHOU RESEARCH INSTITUTE XIDIAN UNIV1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
HANGZHOU YUNDIAN TECH ENERGY CO LTD1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
STATE GRID CORP CHINA1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
STATE GRID JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER CO LTD1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
STATE GRID SMART GRID RES INSTITUTE CO LTD1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
SUQIAN POWER SUPPLY BRANCH OF STATE GRID JIANGSU ELECTRIC POWER CO LTD1Other co-applicant · relationship unverified
Possible affiliation is a review lead only. Co-applicants without a review record are not automatically group members or external partners, and their independent filings are not added to these statistics.
Review the entity list06Entities and scope
Entity review and data coverage are separate facts. This list shows the current entity configuration, evidence and relationship dates, matched name by name against this snapshot.
Filters change only the entity list below, not the statistics. A complete group snapshot is not available to switch to on this page.
Showing 3 of 3 entities
Alibaba Group Holding Limited
Primary entityVerifiedSome names covered
- Names collected in this snapshot
- ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
- Names outside this snapshot
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited · 阿里巴巴集团控股有限公司
- Recorded relationship dates
- Not recorded — Not recorded
官方20-F确认控股公司法人；其文献与运营子公司文献按公开号去重。
Review evidence阿里云计算有限公司
Other relationshipVerifiedSome names covered
- Names collected in this snapshot
- ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD · ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING CO LTD
- Names outside this snapshot
- 阿里云计算有限公司 · Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. · Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd.
- Recorded relationship dates
- Not recorded — Not recorded
2025 Exhibit8.1列为合并实体；不把VIE合并关系强称直接持股。与阿里巴巴（中国）共同申请只计一次。
Review evidence阿里巴巴（中国）有限公司
SubsidiaryVerifiedSome names covered
- Names collected in this snapshot
- ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
- Names outside this snapshot
- 阿里巴巴（中国）有限公司 · Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd.
- Recorded relationship dates
- Not recorded — Not recorded
2025 Exhibit8.1列示，来源原始中英文申请人对应。
Review evidenceRelationship dates help interpret renaming, acquisitions and joint ventures. Missing dates do not establish an indefinite relationship or verify the current patent owner.
07Publication jurisdictions
14 publication offices · 1,101 documents
Counts use the publication office of each collected document, retaining publications from the same family in different jurisdictions. This is not a map of complete families, granted or active rights; WO and EP denote international and European publication routes.
- CNChina624
- USUnited States182
- WOPCT international publication141
- EPEuropean Patent Office publication52
- JPJapan41
- KRSouth Korea19
- TWTaiwan14
- MXMexico12
Show 6 more jurisdictions
- AUAustralia11
- ESSpain1
- PLPoland1
- RSSerbia1
- SMSan Marino1
- ZASouth Africa1
08Documents
1,101 published documentsNewest first
- CN120973440A
Invention publication
2025-11-18Data acquisition method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN120973460A
Invention publication
2025-11-18Virtual machine migration method, device, computer program product and storage medium
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Computer technology
- CN120973484A
Invention publication
2025-11-18Resource scheduling method and cloud computing platform
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Computer technology
- CN120973505A
Invention publication
2025-11-18Computer system, data processing method, data acquisition method, storage medium, and program product
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Computer technology
- CN120973910A
Invention publication
2025-11-18Search task processing method, system, device, equipment, medium and program product
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Computer technology
- CN120974492A
Invention publication
2025-11-18Code detection method and device, and loop sentence code detection method and device
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Computer technology
- CN120974497A
Invention publication
2025-11-18Code detection method, device and equipment based on large model
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN120974526A
Invention publication
2025-11-18File operation control method, system and device and electronic equipment
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN120975040A
Invention publication
2025-11-18Document processing method, server, storage medium, and program product
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Computer technology
- CN120979636A
Invention publication
2025-11-18Key synchronization method, server, storage medium, and program product
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Digital communication
- CN120979681A
Invention publication
2025-11-18Abnormality alert method, abnormality alert device, electronic apparatus, storage medium, and program product
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Digital communication
- CN120979948A
Invention publication
2025-11-18Flow control method, system, storage medium and computer program product
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Digital communication
- CN120980087A
Invention publication
2025-11-18Container cold start method, device, system, program product and storage medium
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Digital communication
- CN120980140A
Invention publication
2025-11-18Service request processing method, service system and computer program product
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Digital communication
- US12474762B2
Invention grant
2025-11-18Container-based application management method and apparatus
ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
Computer technology
- PL4029239T3
Other
2025-11-17Method and apparatus for signaling sub-block transform information
ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
Audio-visual technology
- CN120949994A
Invention publication
2025-11-14Log processing system, log writing method, log reading method and device
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN120950373A
Invention publication
2025-11-14Code processing method, code repairing method and model request processing method
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN120951330A
Invention publication
2025-11-14Code vulnerability detection method, device and equipment
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
- CN120952142A
Invention publication
2025-11-14Interactive information processing method, system, electronic equipment and storage medium
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Computer technology
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09Method and sources
Counting units
Publications are deduplicated by publication number; applications by application number, so a publication and its grant count once; families by the source family ID. Technology fields are derived automatically from IPC codes using the WIPO IPC–Technology Concordance (March 2026), without manual or AI labeling.
Publication or grant documents do not establish current rights. Check legal status and current owners with the relevant patent office.
Entity scope
These statistics use only the applicant names and publication dates collected for this snapshot. They do not represent the full company or group portfolio.
- Search jurisdictions
- Worldwide
- Applicant-name basis
- Dataset-harmonized assignees (not verified current owners)
- Applicant names included in these statistics
- ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD · ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING CO LTD · ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD · ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
- Reviewed names not covered
- ALIBABA (CHINA) CO., LTD. · ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING CO., LTD. · ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD. · ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LIMITED · 阿里云计算有限公司 · 阿里巴巴集团控股有限公司 · 阿里巴巴（中国）有限公司
Current entity configuration and review evidence
The reviewed entities and aliases below describe the current company configuration. Only names listed above are covered by this snapshot.
Alibaba Group Holding Limited
Configured aliases: 阿里巴巴集团控股有限公司 · ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
Original review note: 官方20-F确认控股公司法人；其文献与运营子公司文献按公开号去重。
Review evidence阿里云计算有限公司
Configured aliases: Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. · Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd. · ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD · ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING CO LTD
Original review note: 2025 Exhibit8.1列为合并实体；不把VIE合并关系强称直接持股。与阿里巴巴（中国）共同申请只计一次。
Review evidence阿里巴巴（中国）有限公司
Configured aliases: Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd. · ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Original review note: 2025 Exhibit8.1列示，来源原始中英文申请人对应。
Review evidenceData sources
- Google Patents · PartialPublished 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · retrieved 2026-10-29 · 1,101 included · 0 out of scopeSource and terms
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