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Analysis of Patent Citations (Last update: 01.02.2026)

  1. Top patents cited by examiners

  2. Geographical distribution of patents cited by examiners

  3. Top patents cited by applicants

  4. Geographical distribution of patents cited by applicants

  5. Top 10 MD patents cited abroad, according to Lens DB. Number of citations has been corrected with Espacenet data and completed with additional RU citations retrieved from Rospatent DB (Situation on 23.11.2015)



Top patents cited by examiners

Top patents cited by examiners
No.CountryNumberTotal
1 MD 3389 33
2 MD 2386 23
3 MD 2509 22
4 MD 99 21
5 MD 4112 21
6 MD 3075 19
7 MD 3577 19
8 MD 4194 18
9 MD 1748 18
10 MD 545 17
11 MD 2061 17
12 MD 2103 17
13 MD 2328 17
14 MD 3158 17
15 MD 3258 17
16 MD 2409 17
17 MD 2130 16
18 MD 3950 16
19 MD 3390 16
20 MD 3154 16
21 MD 2735 16
22 MD 3247 16
23 MD 4108 16
24 MD 4069 16
25 MD 538 16

Geographical distribution of patents cited by examiners

Geographical distribution of patents cited by examiners
No.CountryTotal
1 MD 9928
2 RU 5633
3 SU 5223
4 US 2583
5 WO 1257
6 CN 922
7 EA 717
8 EP 668
9 JP 622
10 DE 417
11 GB 405
12 UA 391
13 FR 295
14 RO 261
15 KR 226
16 CA 107
17 ES 51
18 BY 51
19 AU 44
20 BG 30
21 NZ 21
22 TW 20
23 CH 19
24 MX 17
25 HU 16

Top patents cited by applicants

Top patents cited by applicants
No.CountryNumberTotal
1 MD 3389 35
2 MD 3390 12
3 SU 150465 10
4 MD 253 9
5 MD 4823 8
6 MD 2509 8
7 MD 2379 8
8 EP 0534859 8
9 SU 956716 8
10 SU 1532578 8
11 SU 1167286 8
12 SU 1339221 8
13 MD 162 7
14 MD 923 7
15 MD 1702 7
16 MD 3992 7
17 MD 2775 7
18 MD 4048 7
19 EP 1482029 7
20 EP 2277990 7
21 RU 2115176 7
22 RU 2016763 7
23 MD 99 6
24 MD 479 6
25 MD 4532 6
26 MD 3823 6
27 MD 4397 6
28 MD 1508 6
29 MD 1748 6
30 MD 2458 6
31 MD 2288 6
32 MD 3489 6
33 MD 359 6
34 MD 1193 6
35 MD 1758 6
36 RU 2065869 6

Geographical distribution of patents cited by applicants

Geographical distribution of patents cited by applicants
No.CountryTotal
1 MD 2134
2 RU 2075
3 SU 1765
4 US 1105
5 WO 455
6 EP 345
7 DE 141
8 GB 128
9 CN 118
10 RO 112
11 JP 106
12 FR 83
13 UA 62
14 EA 35
15 KR 34
16 CA 23
17 ES 13
18 AT 11
19 CH 9
20 BG 8
21 PL 8
22 BY 8
23 AU 7
24 SE 6
25 HU 5

Top 10 MD patents cited abroad, according to Lens DB. Number of citations has been corrected with Espacenet data and completed with additional RU citations retrieved from Rospatent DB (Situation on 23.11.2015)

Top Patent Owner or applicant Citations retrieved from BD Lens Corrected citations according to Espacenet* After completion with additional RU citations retrieved from RUAB**
1 2360 B2 USM 4 4 8
2 114 Y INSTITUTUL ȘTIINȚIFICO-PRACTIC DE HORTICULTURĂ ȘI TEHNOLOGII ALIMENTARE 4 1 1
3 3869 B1 COVALENCO Nicolae Pavel; COVALENCO Nicolae Nicolae 4 2 2
4 20030163 A POPEL Svetlana; AVDEEV Ludmila 3 3 49
5 3445 ABABII Ion et al 3 1 1
6 1779 F1 ÎM EUROFARM SRL 2 2 2
7 1877 F1 BELRON INTERNATIONAL (NL) 2 2 2
8 2078 F1 USMF 2 2 2
9 2133F1 INST DE CERCETĂRI ȘTIINȚIFICE ȘI CONSTRUCȚII TEHNOLOGICE PENTRU TUTUN ȘI PRODUSE DIN TUTUN 2 2 3
10 2184 F1 UNIVERSITATEA AGRARĂ DE STAT DIN MOLDOVA 2 2 2

* one citation per patent family

** referative DB of Rospatent

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