- All sections
- A - Human necessities
- A44B - Buttons, pins, buckles, slide fasteners, or the like
- A44B 18/00 - Fasteners of the touch-and-close typeMaking such fasteners
Patent holdings for IPC class A44B 18/00
Total number of patents in this class: 1004
10-year publication summary
90
|
114
|
80
|
108
|
79
|
79
|
54
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58
|
55
|
23
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2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Principal owners for this class
Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
---|---|---|
YKK Corporation | 1992 |
130 |
Velcro IP Holdings LLC | 282 |
94 |
3m Innovative Properties Company | 17819 |
89 |
Kuraray Fastening Co., Ltd. | 88 |
84 |
Aplix | 146 |
70 |
Gottlieb Binder GmbH & Co. KG | 221 |
66 |
The Procter & Gamble Company | 22035 |
33 |
Velcro Industries B.V. | 48 |
33 |
Velcro BVBA | 51 |
22 |
Taiwan Paiho Limited | 56 |
14 |
Rip-tie, Inc. | 23 |
13 |
Kuraray Co., Ltd. | 3503 |
11 |
Gui Global Products, LTD, GUI Global Management, LLC, Texas | 38 |
7 |
SCA Hygiene Products AB | 655 |
7 |
Soni-Form LLC | 7 |
7 |
Re-u-zip LLC | 13 |
6 |
Unicharm Corporation | 2870 |
6 |
Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc. | 5495 |
5 |
Nitto Denko Corporation | 8246 |
5 |
Leibniz-institut fur Neue Materialien Gemeinnutzige GmbH | 108 |
5 |
Other owners | 297 |