Company Analysis

MarketAxess Holdings, Inc. (MKTX)

Nasdaq: MKTX · Security Brokers, Dealers & Flotation Companies · New York, NY · filing with the SEC since 2004
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◀ Past 6.4● Present 5.1▶ Future 4.2

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

13 patents granted to the name below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to MarketAxess Holdings, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
13
13 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
6
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
1
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'02'06'08'09'10'12'13'14
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name1 counted
MarketAxess Holdings, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
13 granted
6 published
Names not counted (1)
Trax Limited
Most of its patents print AU; this name counts in GB. 1 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Mar 25, 20148,682,777Methods and systems for computer-based trading enhanced with market and historical data displayed on live screenIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc.
Sep 3, 20138,527,396Method and system for computer-implemented trading of secondary debt market securitiesIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc.
Mar 5, 20138,392,314Methods and systems for computer-based incremental tradingIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc.
Jun 5, 20128,195,558Electronic inquiry lists for financial productsIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc.
May 22, 20128,185,465Method and system for computer-implemented trading of secondary market debt securitiesIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc.
Apr 24, 20128,165,955Method and system for computer-implemented trading of secondary market debt securitiesIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc.
Dec 28, 20107,860,796Automated order protection trading systemIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc.
Oct 26, 20107,822,677Electronic price-based inquiry lists for financial productsIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc.
Sep 15, 20097,590,585Method and system for computer-implemented trading of secondary market debt securitiesIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc.
Jun 30, 20097,555,455Method and system for computer-implemented trading of new issue debt securitiesIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Sep 13, 20122012/0233057Method and System for Computer-Implemented Trading of Secondary Debt Market SecuritiesIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc. · patent 8,527,396 granted from it
Mar 4, 20102010/0057604METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED TRADING OF SECONDARY MARKET DEBT SECURITIESIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc. · patent 8,165,955 granted from it
Dec 31, 20092009/0327159METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED TRADING OF SECONDARY MARKET DEBT SECURITIESIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc. · patent 8,185,465 granted from it
Dec 25, 20082008/0319919ELECTRONIC INQUIRY LISTS FOR FINANCIAL PRODUCTSIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc. · patent 8,195,558 granted from it
Aug 24, 20062006/0190386Automated order protection trading systemIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc. · patent 7,860,796 granted from it
Oct 24, 20022002/0156719Method and apparatus for trading bondsIT methods for managementMarketAxess Holdings, Inc.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

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