1、A PORTRAIT OF THE GLOBAL PATENT LANDSCAPE IN QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIESWHITEPAPER|JANUARY 2025QuIC|WHITEPAPER A PORTRAIT OF THE GLOBAL PATENT LANDSCAPE IN QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES2TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 41 GLOBAL PATENT FAMILY LANDSCAPE OFQUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES 52 COMPARISON WITH LAST YEARS WHITE PAPER

2、93 DETAILED ANALYSIS IMPROVED CORPUS 134 SITUATION BY COUNTRY/REGION 185 EUROPEAN LEADERS BASED ON THE NUMBER OF PATENT FAMILIES 24 CONCLUSIONS 27 REFERENCES&BIBLIOGRAPHY 28 GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS 29 DEFINITIONS 30 APPENDIX A:CREATING THE CORPORA OF PATENTS AND PATENT APPLICATIONS 31QuIC|WHITEPAP

3、ER A PORTRAIT OF THE GLOBAL PATENT LANDSCAPE IN QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES3ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis white paper was prepared by the QuIC IP&Trade Working Group.The main contributors were Jrme Plant-Bordeneuve(Thales),Erik Visscher(De Vries&Metman),Guido Paola(Quantum Delta NL),Nataliia Darmenko(EY),Magdalena

4、Hauser(Parity Quantum Computing),Alexandra Paul(Pasqal).QuIC|WHITEPAPER A PORTRAIT OF THE GLOBAL PATENT LANDSCAPE IN QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES4INTRODUCTIONIMPORTANT NOTES1 The reader should take into account that there is an 18-month delay between the date of first filing and the date of first publicatio

5、n.In other words,this study includes only patent families with a first filing before 1January 2023.2 The first study,released in January 2024,was based on alive patents and patent applications that were published before 30 June 2023,that is to say with a first filing before 1 January 2022.3 A patent

6、 family is a collection of patent applications covering the same or similar technical content.The applications in a family are related to each other through priority claims.(EPO website).4 For this study,Europe refers to“Geographical Europe”:the 27 EU countries plus the United Kingdom,Switzerland,No