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Agricultural Bank of ChinaAlibabaMicrosoft

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

Alibaba: Applicant names included in these statistics — ALIBABA CHINA CO LTD · ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING CO LTD · ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING LTD · ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTDReviewed 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

Microsoft: Applicant names included in these statistics — MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLCReviewed names not covered — MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.

Agricultural Bank of China

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

Alibaba

Publications: 1,101
Invention share: 96%
Concentration: 0.51
Green technology: —

Microsoft

Publications: 7,140
Invention share: 97%
Concentration: 0.59
Green technology: —

0.88

Agricultural Bank of China × Alibaba

0.95

Agricultural Bank of China × Microsoft

0.95

Alibaba × Microsoft

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 / Alibaba / Microsoft
Computer technology	81.2% 63.5% 72.5%
Digital communication	18.4% 12.5% 22.4%
Audio-visual technology	1.2% 29.8% 10.5%
IT methods for management	29.5% 3.7% 4.2%
Telecommunications	1.1% 0% 3.3%
Optics	0.1% 0% 3.8%
Measurement	0.4% 0.8% 2.1%
Semiconductors	0% 0.6% 2.1%
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy	0.3% 0.3% 2.1%
Control	1.2% 0.2% 1%
Basic communication processes	0.1% 0.6% 1.3%
Medical technology	0.1% 0.4% 0.7%

Inspect one technology field

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.

View Agricultural Bank of China publications in this field

Alibaba

Collected applications: 3
Share of collected applications with IPC: 0.3%

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

View Alibaba publications in this field

Microsoft

Collected applications: 147
Share of collected applications with IPC: 2.1%

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

View Microsoft publications in this field

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

Alibaba547

Microsoft3,890

H04LDigital transmission

Agricultural Bank of China284

Alibaba113

Microsoft1,379

G06NComputing models, AI

Agricultural Bank of China524

Alibaba173

Microsoft1,064

H04NPictorial communication, video

Agricultural Bank of China21

Alibaba331

Microsoft482

G06QBusiness data processing

Agricultural Bank of China478

Alibaba40

Microsoft290

G06TImage processing

Agricultural Bank of China64

Alibaba67

Microsoft479

G06VImage and video recognition

Agricultural Bank of China152

Alibaba70

Microsoft295

G10LSpeech processing

Agricultural Bank of China19

Alibaba25

Microsoft250

H04WWireless networks

Agricultural Bank of China10

Alibaba9

Microsoft196

H05KPrinted circuits, assemblies

Agricultural Bank of China9

Alibaba3

Microsoft164

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.