BOE Ranks 12th in the 2024 IFI Patent Licensing Ranking, Fruitful Innovation Enables New Breakthroughs in Industrial Upgrading

    On January 14, the 2024 annual statistical report released by IFI Claims, a global authoritative patent service organization, showed that BOE was ranked 12th in the world in the U.S. Patent Licensing Ranking, and among the global TOP20 for the seventh consecutive year, not only becoming one of the only two mainland Chinese enterprises in the TOP20, but also the only Chinese enterprise in the semiconductor display field.

    BOE's outstanding performance in the U.S. Patent License Ranking reflects the great importance it attaches to intellectual property protection, and is a clear example of the cutting-edge technological breakthroughs of Chinese science and technology enterprises, which continue to inject surging power for the industry's new development by virtue of its perfect intellectual property protection system and technological innovation system.

    Li Xinguo, Vice President of BOE and Head of Technology and Intellectual Property Management Center, said that BOE has always been the creator of a large number of cutting-edge technologies, the owner of intellectual property rights, and also the advocate and promoter of intellectual property protection. As a technology enterprise growing up in global competition, BOE adheres to the development route of “marketization, internationalization and specialization”, focuses on the layout of high-value patents, and continuously consolidates its competitive advantages in the global market, and at the same time, joins hands with its global eco-partners to achieve win-win development in a more open and inclusive manner with mutual benefits and synergy, and leads the high-quality development of the whole industrial chain with its leading innovative technologies and achievements. At the same time, BOE will work with its global eco-partners to achieve win-win development in a more open and inclusive manner with mutual benefit and synergy, and lead the high-quality development of the whole industry chain with its leading innovative technologies.

    Since its founding, BOE has always maintained its respect for technology and persistence in innovation, and as of 2024 has accumulated over 100,000 independent patent applications, of which over 30,000 are related to flexible OLED. Among the annual new patent applications, more than 90% are invention patents and more than 33% are overseas patents, covering many countries and regions such as the United States, Europe, Japan, and South Korea, and spreading across a wide range of fields such as flexible OLED, sensing, artificial intelligence, and big data.

    In the 2023 global international patent application rankings published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), BOE was ranked fifth in the world with 1,988 PCT patent applications, becoming the only semiconductor display enterprise in the top five of the list, and entering the global PCT patent application Top 10 for eight consecutive years. In addition, BOE has been listed as one of the “Top 100 Global Innovation Organizations” by Coretronic for three consecutive years, empowering the industry with scientific and technological innovations to “move towards the new”. At the same time, through years of accumulation of technical resources, BOE actively participates in the formulation and revision of industry standards, and is committed to promoting the construction of a fair and orderly industry environment.

    By 2024, BOE has presided over and participated in the formulation and revision of 429 domestic and international technical standards, accelerating its progress from a leader in technological innovation to an industry standard maker, and making outstanding contributions to the development of standardization in the fields of flexible OLEDs, Internet of Things applications, and health displays.

    In addition, BOE released the first technology brand in China's semiconductor display field in 2021, creating a new paradigm of “technology + brand” dual-wheel drive, and continuing to promote the high-value growth of the semiconductor display industry.

    At present, BOE has built a large-scale technological innovation system, and through its 18 semiconductor display production lines and multiple intelligent manufacturing plants, it has formed a huge product platform to continuously promote the transformation and realization of technologically innovative products.

    In terms of technological innovation, BOE has launched many innovative technologies and products that are the “world's first”, such as UB Cell high-end liquid crystal display technology, with a picture quality comparable to OLED, 110-inch 16K naked-eye 3D display, the first splicing sliding scroll in-vehicle flexible display product, the industry's first mass-produced triple-folding flexible screen, the industry's first LTPO+ flexible display with LTPO, and the industry's first LTPO+ flexible screen with LTPO+ flexible display with LTPO. The first flexible display product equipped with LTPO+Tandem technology and industry-leading Oxide low-power technology solutions continue to lead the development of the global display industry.

    Meanwhile, BOE also relies on the three major technology origins of semiconductor display, Internet of Things innovation, and sensor devices, and under the leadership of the “Screen of Things” strategy, BOE actively cooperates with domestic and foreign research institutes, top universities, renowned enterprises, and eco-chain partners, and jointly builds an open and integrated industrial innovation ecosystem.

    Looking back on more than 30 years of innovation and development, BOE has built a solid foundation for the company's high-quality development and digital transformation with its perfect intellectual property management system and continuous investment in technology research and development, and has continuously enhanced the global influence of China's science and technology enterprises.

    Looking ahead, BOE will continue to take the “Screen of Things” strategy as the guide, continue to explore the “Nth curve” that meets the market demand, actively promote the transformation of patent achievements, and work hand in hand with partners from all walks of life to create a new pattern of industrial ecosystem that is more open, innovative and synergistic, We will also work with partners from all walks of life to create a new pattern of more open, innovative and collaborative industrial ecology, provide global users with more groundbreaking and value-added products and services, and empower the leap in industrial value with scientific and technological innovation in depth.