Baby Skin Care Formulation Patents: Leaders, Trends & White Space 2026
Baby Skin Care Formulation Patents: Mapping the Filers and the Gaps
One filer dominates a thin field. the leading assignee holds 41 records against a fifth-place company at 8 and a tenth-place company at 3, in a ranking of only 21 companies. Annual filings rose to a peak of 5 in 2018, then have been uneven since; the last complete year shows a 75% drop from 2021's 4 filings to 1 in 2024. Treat 2025 and 2026 figures as incomplete rather than as evidence of a further slide.
- 1INOLEX INVESTMENT CORP41
- 2PRIMIENT COVATION LLC15
- 3PROCTER & GAMBLE CO10
- 4DUPONT TATE & LYLE BIO PRODUCTS CO LLC8
- 5KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS NV8
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- The complete ranking, not just the top five
- Every IPC branch with its share of the corpus
- The most-cited records, and where claim space is still thin
Common questions about baby skin care formulation patents
Who holds the most patents in baby skin care formulation?
One assignee leads the ranked field with 41 records, well ahead of the fifth-ranked company’s 8 and the tenth-ranked company’s 3. The ranking covers 21 companies total, so this is a concentrated field at the top with a long tail below it. Because the ranking counts patent families rather than raw documents, this figure is a fair basis for comparing filers.
Is patent filing in baby skin care formulation growing or slowing?
Filings peaked at 5 in 2018 and, comparing the last two complete years available, dropped 75% from 4 filings in 2021 to 1 in 2024. That is a real decline over that span, but 2025 and 2026 counts are still incomplete because publication typically lags filing by about 18 months, so it is too early to call the current trajectory.
What technology areas dominate baby skin care formulation patents?
Medicinal preparations (A61K) appear in 62.7% of the 102 records in scope, ahead of cosmetics use (A61Q) at 49.0%. Detergents and cleaning compositions, foods, and coatings each cover a fifth to a quarter of records, reflecting how much shared excipient and preservative chemistry crosses between skin care and these adjacent fields. A single record can carry several of these classifications, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
Disclaimer. This analysis is based on Patsnap Eureka data drawn from a limited snapshot of global patent records and is provided for general information and reference only. Patent data carries inherent limitations — recent filings are under-counted because of publication lag, counts may be on a record or family basis, classification and applicant-name data may contain errors or duplicates, and the underlying search query defines the scope shown — so the analysis may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not reflect the full technology landscape.
Nothing here is an exhaustive prior-art, novelty, freedom-to-operate or validity search, nor does it constitute legal, financial or professional advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. Verify independently and review with qualified patent and legal professionals before acting on it.
Method: Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Baby Skin Care Formulation covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish. Every share divides by all records in scope. Data: Patsnap Eureka. See the full landscape report.