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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

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Collected patent publications

≥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 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

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.

Cells count publications only within the collected names and dates. Missing periods are not shown; the company portfolio is incomplete.
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

0.51

0.000.94

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.

Alibaba1,090

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.

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06Entities 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.

Review statusName coverage in this snapshot

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 evidence

Relationship 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

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AUAustralia11
ESSpain1
PLPoland1
RSSerbia1
SMSan Marino1
ZASouth Africa1

08Documents

1,101 published documentsNewest first

US12354142B2
Invention grant
Method and system for distributing smart containers
ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
IT methods for management
2025-07-08
US12355982B2
Invention grant
Decoder-side chroma intra prediction mode gradient-based derivation
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Audio-visual technology
2025-07-08
KR20250103659A
Invention publication
서브블록 기반 인터 예측을 수행하기 위한 방법 및 비일시적 컴퓨터 판독가능 저장 매체
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Audio-visual technology
2025-07-07
CN120256187A
Invention publication
Device failure processing method, electronic device, storage medium, and program product
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Computer technology
2025-07-04
CN120256266A
Invention publication
Cluster health state evaluation method, device, equipment, medium and program product
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Computer technology
2025-07-04
CN120256302A
Invention publication
Test method and device for code generation model
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
2025-07-04
CN120256571A
Invention publication
Language processing method, electronic device and computer readable storage medium
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
2025-07-04
CN120257218A
Invention publication
Key function call feature acquisition method, knowledge retrieval method, device and medium
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Computer technology
2025-07-04
CN120257965A
Invention publication
Method, device and equipment for judging identity of personal information
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
2025-07-04
CN120258133A
Invention publication
Video content reasoning method, device and system
UNIV TSINGHUA / ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
2025-07-04
CN120259628A
Invention publication
Risk identification method, apparatus, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
2025-07-04
CN120264011A
Invention publication
Method for performing surround motion compensation
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Audio-visual technology
2025-07-04
CN120264012A
Invention publication
Method for performing surround motion compensation
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Audio-visual technology
2025-07-04
JP2025100547A
Invention publication
Methods, devices and systems for determining prediction weight for merge mode
ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
Audio-visual technology
2025-07-03
WO2025139208A1
Invention publication
Container group scheduling method and system for cluster, and computer device
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Computer technology
2025-07-03
CN120234224A
Invention publication
Data processing method, computing device, storage medium, and program product
ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD
Computer technology
2025-07-01
CN120235117A
Invention publication
Data processing method and device
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
2025-07-01
TW202527544A
Other
Local illumination compensation
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Audio-visual technology
2025-07-01
US12346286B2
Invention grant
Two-dimensional processing array with a vertically stacked memory tile array
ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD
Computer technology
2025-07-01
US12346723B2
Invention grant
Task processing method, apparatus, and system based on distributed system
ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
Computer technology
2025-07-01

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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 evidence

Data 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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