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Aerospace remains the most common field for defense-related patent publications compared to land and maritime with 230,784 filings and grants over the past three years, four times more than the combined total of the other two traditional fields at 25,371 and 26,844 respectively.
According to a GlobalData analysis, aerospace citations are second only to aerospace and defense combined (323,925) with maritime and land coming in eleventh and thirteenth globally for patent citations.
Trends Sectors
| Sector | count |
| Aerospace and defense | 323,925 |
| Aerospace | 230,784 |
| Car | 80,695 |
| C4ISR and electronic warfare | 74,685 |
| Spare parts and tires | 63,646 |
| Technology, media and telecommunications | 55,269 |
| Technology | 47,280 |
| arms | 39,741 |
| Utensils, accessories | 31.401 |
| Future mobility | 30,095 |
| Maritime | 26,844 |
| Software | 26,787 |
| Earth | 25,371 |
| Semiconductors | 22,983 |
| No crew | 19,896 |
| Consumer applications | 17,804 |
| Corporate applications | 12,728 |
| Infrastructure, logistics and support | 11,495 |
| Telecommunications | 11,442 |
| IT infrastructure equipment | 11,407 |
Other notable defense-related areas for patents include C4isr and electronic warfare (74,685), weapons (39,741), and unmanned (19,896). Semiconductors ranked fourteenth in the number of defense-related patent publications over the past three years with 22,983 registered.
The semiconductor sector has been a key defense issue in recent years as China maintains its stance to recapture neighboring Taiwan, which is the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturer. Beijing is increasingly aggressive towards Taiwan, which it views as a breakaway province, and sees “reunification” as a non-negotiable foreign policy goal.
In June this year, the Japanese government offered to buy JSR, a leading semiconductor equipment maker and key element of the technology supply chain.
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