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Agricultural Bank of ChinaAppleEli Lilly

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.

Eli Lilly: Applicant names included in these statistics — ELI LILLY AND CO · ELI LILLY AND COMPANY USA · LILLY CO ELIReviewed names not covered — ELI LILLY AND COMPANY

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: —

Eli Lilly

Publications: 1,602
Invention share: 45%
Concentration: 0.73
Green technology: —

0.74

Agricultural Bank of China × Apple

0.01

Agricultural Bank of China × Eli Lilly

0.02

Apple × Eli Lilly

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 / Eli Lilly
Computer technology	81.2% 39.1% 0.6%
Pharmaceuticals	0% 0% 68.5%
Digital communication	18.4% 42.1% 0.1%
Biotechnology	0% 0% 39.9%
IT methods for management	29.5% 2.4% 0.2%
Organic fine chemistry	0% 0% 25.8%
Medical technology	0.1% 2.6% 17.6%
Audio-visual technology	1.2% 14.2% 0.1%
Telecommunications	1.1% 13.9% 0%
Optics	0.1% 7.2% 0%
Measurement	0.4% 5.7% 1%
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy	0.3% 4.8% 0%

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Agricultural Bank of China

Collected applications: 19
Share of collected applications with IPC: 1.2%

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

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Apple

Collected applications: 1,559
Share of collected applications with IPC: 14.2%

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

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Eli Lilly

Collected applications: 1
Share of collected applications with IPC: 0.1%

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

Eli Lilly2

H04WWireless networks

Agricultural Bank of China10

Apple3,570

Eli Lilly2

G06TImage processing

Agricultural Bank of China64

Apple986

Eli Lilly5

G06QBusiness data processing

Agricultural Bank of China478

Apple264

Eli Lilly3

G06NComputing models, AI

Agricultural Bank of China524

Apple200

Eli Lilly3

G06VImage and video recognition

Agricultural Bank of China152

Apple417

Eli Lilly2

A61BMedical diagnosis

Agricultural Bank of China1

Apple194

Eli Lilly36

G16H

Agricultural Bank of China1

Apple123

Eli Lilly36

G08B

Agricultural Bank of China7

Apple72

Eli Lilly5

G01RMeasuring electric variables

Agricultural Bank of China1

Apple61

Eli Lilly3

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.