Banjos

Introduced: September 1968

Last revised: January 2006

Full Title

General design of stringed musical instruments > Plucked or strummed string instruments, e.g. harps or lyres > with fret boards or fingerboards > Banjos

Classification Context

Section:: PHYSICS
Class:: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
Subclass:: STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; WIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACCORDIONS OR CONCERTINAS; PERCUSSION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; AEOLIAN HARPS; SINGING-FLAME MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G10, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 5,218
GOOGLE US 4,644
FRAUNHOFER DE 4,601
SONY CORPORATION JP 2,380
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY CN 2,179
YAMAHA CORPORATION 2,120
IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 1,974
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING US 1,916
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES US 1,866
DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION US 1,843