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S&P 500 companies received 29% fewer US patents in 2025 than in 2019

Published 2026-11-07 · By Pushbuild · Data: Patents by Ticker API – Patent Grant Pace and 13F Holders

500S&P · as of 2026-11-07

Today's S&P 500 companies were granted 54,171 US patents in 2025, against 76,229 in 2019. IBM alone accounts for 7,212 of the 22,058 fewer grants; without IBM the drop is 22%.

025,41050,81976,22920172018201920202021202220232024202554,171 All S&P 50051,857 All except IBM2,314 IBM
All S&P 500IBMAll except IBM

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YearAll S&P 500IBMAll except IBM
201770,3009,35960,941
201866,1519,24056,911
201976,2299,52666,703
202075,4599,42966,030
202167,2398,89258,347
202260,8304,76356,067
202361,0883,98257,106
202457,0212,64954,372
202554,1712,31451,857

Caveats

USPTO grants counted under each company's current and former SEC names and patent-holding subsidiaries, as applicant or as assignee in an ownership transfer (security interests excluded), read November 7, 2026. Companies are today's S&P 500 members, so the history follows today's index, not the index of each year; Alphabet's two share classes count once. Grants lag filings by two to three years, so a fall in grants partly reflects filing decisions made around 2020 to 2023. CSV: sp500-patent-grants-by-year.csv

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Data as of 2026-11-07. Every figure in this post is in the table above and the CSV below.

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  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"ticker": "NVDA", "maxItems": 20}'
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