Company Analysis

Novartis AG (NVS)

NYSE: NVS · Pharmaceutical Preparations · Basel, CH · filing with the SEC since 2001
Grade5.5
◀ Past 6.9● Present 6.1▶ Future 3.2
6 est.

Patents

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

3,941 patents granted to the 3 names 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 Novartis AG’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
3,941
3,843 utility, 77 design, 15 reissue, 3 statutory invention registration, 3 plant, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
74
Against 93 in 2024 and 72 in 2023
Applications published
4,226
167 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Pharmaceuticals252
Organic fine chemistry80
Biotechnology61
Medical technology31
Chemical engineering6
Analysis of biological materials4
Computer technology2
Measurement2
Handling1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
NOVARTIS AG its own name
CH, as the owner printed on each patent. 192 more under the same name are not counted (printed in US, printed in SE, printed in CN)
3,940 granted
1,912 published
Novartis AG its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in CH. 12 more under the same name are not counted (printed in US, printed in DE, printed in SE)
0 granted
2,314 published
Novartis AB its own name
CH, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Pharmaceuticals 215 · Organic fine chemistry 51 · Biotechnology 49 · Medical technology 11 · Analysis of biological materials 4 · Macromolecular chemistry, polymers 1.

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.

SI Assistanton NVS · research, not advice