CPC Main Group Additional Only
G02B 2207/00 Coding scheme for general features or characteristics of optical elements and systems of subclass G02B, but not including elements and systems which would be classified in G02B6/00 and subgroups
Filing statistics
CPC G02B 2207/00 belongs to the parent subclass G02B, which recorded 623,096 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 43,600 in 2013 to 50,077 in 2023 (+15%), peaking at 66,341 applications in 2018. The most active applicants in class G02 are SAMSUNG DISPLAY (14,409 applications), BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP COMPANY (14,236 applications) and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP COMPANY (11,826 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
11 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- G02B 2207/101 Nanooptics
- G02B 2207/107 Porous materials, e.g. for reducing the refractive index
- G02B 2207/109 Sols, gels, sol-gel materials
- G02B 2207/113 Fluorescence
- G02B 2207/114 Two photon or multiphoton effect
- G02B 2207/115 Electrowetting
- G02B 2207/117 Adjustment of the optical path length
- G02B 2207/121 Antistatic or EM shielding layer
- G02B 2207/123 Optical louvre elements, e.g. for directional light blocking
- G02B 2207/125 Wavefront coding
- G02B 2207/129 Coded aperture imaging
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G02, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SAMSUNG DISPLAY KR 14,409
- BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP COMPANY CN 14,236
- BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP COMPANY 11,826
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 10,141
- FUJIFILM JP 8,506
- LG DISPLAY COMPANY KR 7,558
- NITTO DENKO CORPORATION JP 6,306
- OLYMPUS CORPORATION JP 5,336
- SONY CORPORATION JP 5,097
- CANON JP 4,814