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Agricultural Bank of ChinaAppleBroadcom

Technology portfolios compared in the same window and counting units. Scale is compared only within the same field or subclass.

Same window · published 2025-01-01 — 2025-12-31Some name or date coverage is incomplete; affected counts are lower bounds

This is a structural comparison of collected portfolios. The same requested window does not establish equal entity scope, covered months or industry; no competitive ranking is inferred.

Applicant-name coverage differs. The counts below cover only the listed names and do not represent complete company portfolios.

Agricultural Bank of China: Applicant names included in these statistics — AGRICULTURAL BANK CHINAReviewed names not covered — AGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED · 中国农业银行股份有限公司

Apple: Applicant names included in these statistics — APPLE INCReviewed names not covered — APPLE COMPUTER INC · APPLE COMPUTER, INC. · APPLE INC. · APPLE, INC.

Broadcom: Applicant names included in these statistics — AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LID · AVAGO TECH INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE LTD · VMWARE INC · VMWARE LLCReviewed names not covered — AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED · VMWARE INC.

Agricultural Bank of China

Publications: 1,619
Invention share: 99%
Concentration: 0.78
Green technology: —

Apple

Publications: 12,360
Invention share: 87%
Concentration: 0.38
Green technology: —

Broadcom

Publications: 1,230
Invention share: 98%
Concentration: 0.41
Green technology: —

0.74

Agricultural Bank of China × Apple

0.76

Agricultural Bank of China × Broadcom

0.95

Apple × Broadcom

Cosine similarity of application counts across 35 fields. 1 is identical, 0 is no overlap.

01Technology field mirror

The 12 fields with the largest combined share. Share shows structure; count shows scale.

Technology field mirror
Technology field	Agricultural Bank of China / Apple / Broadcom
Computer technology	81.2% 39.1% 42.4%
Digital communication	18.4% 42.1% 45.2%
IT methods for management	29.5% 2.4% 0.4%
Telecommunications	1.1% 13.9% 5.8%
Audio-visual technology	1.2% 14.2% 3.1%
Basic communication processes	0.1% 2% 10.9%
Semiconductors	0% 3% 7.4%
Optics	0.1% 7.2% 1.4%
Measurement	0.4% 5.7% 2.5%
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy	0.3% 4.8% 1.8%
Control	1.2% 1.9% 0.5%
Medical technology	0.1% 2.6% 0.2%

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Inspect collected applications, portfolio share and supporting publications within one field. A technology overlap does not establish that companies in different industries are direct competitors.

Technology field to inspect

Agricultural Bank of China

Collected applications: 5
Share of collected applications with IPC: 0.3%

Coverage is incomplete; counts and shares describe only the collected subset.

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Apple

Collected applications: 531
Share of collected applications with IPC: 4.8%

Coverage is incomplete; counts and shares describe only the collected subset.

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Broadcom

Collected applications: 21
Share of collected applications with IPC: 1.8%

Coverage is incomplete; counts and shares describe only the collected subset.

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One application may belong to multiple fields, so shares can sum to more than 100%. Drill-down lists publications; an application publication and its grant may appear separately.

02Same problem: shared IPC subclasses

The 10 subclasses in every company's top 60 with the most combined applications. Scale is compared within a subclass, never across different business scopes.

G06FData processing

Agricultural Bank of China1,085

Apple3,635

Broadcom456

H04WWireless networks

Agricultural Bank of China10

Apple3,570

Broadcom126

H04LDigital transmission

Agricultural Bank of China284

Apple2,146

Broadcom439

G06TImage processing

Agricultural Bank of China64

Apple986

Broadcom7

H04BTransmission

Agricultural Bank of China3

Apple981

Broadcom58

H04NPictorial communication, video

Agricultural Bank of China21

Apple931

Broadcom20

G06NComputing models, AI

Agricultural Bank of China524

Apple200

Broadcom28

G06QBusiness data processing

Agricultural Bank of China478

Apple264

Broadcom5

G02BOptical elements

Agricultural Bank of China1

Apple679

Broadcom14

G06VImage and video recognition

Agricultural Bank of China152

Apple417

Broadcom4

03Where each one leans

Observed emphasis within each company’s collected top-60 IPC subclasses. A dash for another company means outside its top-60 list, not zero applications or a market gap. Incomplete coverage can also change the ordering.