Philips Tops EPO Medtech Patent Rankings with 1,289 Filings in 2025
Philips filed 1,289 patent applications with the European Patent Office in 2025, ranking first among medical technology companies. The company’s AI-driven platform solutions supported innovation that improved health outcomes for two billion people, and it invested over 9% of 2025 sales in R&D.
1. EPO Ranking and Patent Filings
Philips filed 1,289 European patent applications in 2025, including 676 Medtech submissions, earning the top spot among medical technology companies in the European Patent Office’s Technology Dashboard 2025.
2. Key Innovation Highlights
The company’s platform-based solutions integrated hardware, software, data and AI to advance products such as the SmartSpeed Precise MRI engine, Verida spectral CT system, LumiGuide 3D device guidance and the i9000 Prestige shaver series, driving sharper diagnostics and real-time image-guided therapy.
3. R&D Investment and Future Goals
Philips invested over 9% of its 2025 sales in research and development, expanding an intellectual property portfolio of approximately 53,000 patent rights, and aims to improve the lives of 2.5 billion people annually by 2030, including 400 million in underserved communities.