Taiwan Intellectual Property Office ranked TSMC first with 1,485 invention applications.
This statistic shows how concentrated Taiwan’s formal invention pipeline is among chip and electronics firms. The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) ranking puts TSMC far ahead of the rest of the domestic applicant list, with AUO, Hon Hai and Nanya trailing. The measure is not citation-weighted patent quality. It is an official, comparable assignee ranking for invention applications and grants.
Source 1: TIPO Releases 2025 Top 100 Patent Applicants
Publisher: Taiwan Intellectual Property Office
Dataset/table: 2025 Statistical Rankings for Patent Applications and Grants
Units: Patent applications and grants
Date checked: 2026-05-14
Evidence: Reports 2025 domestic invention patent applicants, led by TSMC with 1,485 filings.
Note: Reports 2025 domestic invention patent applicants, led by TSMC with 1,485 filings.
The user-requested patent-quality lens is approximated by official invention patent applications and grants. Citation-weighted quality data were not found in the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office page.
Use Taiwan Intellectual Property Office 2025 domestic invention patent applicant counts. Rank the top ten applicants by invention applications and derive TSMC share of top-ten filings and multiple over No. 2.
All ranked applicant values use one official TIPO 2025 ranking release and the same invention-application definition.
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