Cordless Saws and Cutting Tools Patents: Top Companies & Trends 2026
Cordless Saws and Cutting Tools Patents: Who Leads and Where Filings Are Heading
Concentrated but not locked up. the top 5 assignees combined hold 786 records, 17.7% of all 4,439 records in scope — leaving a long tail below tenth place at 86. Annual filings rose to a peak of 286 records in 2019, then fell across the last complete comparison window: 226 records in 2021 down to 138 in 2024, a 39% decline. Counts for 2025 and 2026 are still incomplete because of publication lag and should not be read as a continued drop.
- 1MAKITA CORP4.6%
- 2BLACK & DECKER CORP4.4%
- 3ROBERT BOSCH GMBH3.4%
- 4JPL GLOBAL LLC2.9%
- 5STRYKER CORP2.4%
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- Every IPC branch with its share of the corpus
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Common questions about this landscape
Who are the leading patent holders in cordless saws and cutting tools?
The dataset ranks 100 assignees by patent family count, with the leader holding 205 records and fifth place holding 105, together accounting for 17.7% of all 4,439 records in scope. Below tenth place, which holds 86 records, filings spread into a long tail of smaller manufacturers and component specialists. This means leadership is concentrated at the top but far from exclusive, and a new entrant is not necessarily boxed out by a handful of firms.
Is patent filing activity in this field growing or slowing?
Filings peaked at 286 records in 2019 and fell in the most recent complete comparison window, from 226 records in 2021 to 138 in 2024, a 39% decline. Figures for 2025 and 2026 look lower still, but that reflects publication lag of roughly 18 months rather than an actual drop in filing activity. Any conclusion about current-year trends should wait for those years to fill in.
Why do surgical patent classes show up in a saw and cutting tool search?
Guard design, kickback protection and cut-depth control are mechanical concepts that recur in both power tool blades and surgical cutting instruments, which is why A61B (diagnosis & surgery) reaches 17.3% of the 4,439 records and A61F (implants & prostheses) reaches 8.2%. A record can carry more than one IPC class, so this overlap does not mean the field is split between two unrelated industries — it means the underlying blade and guard mechanics are shared prior art across both. Anyone doing freedom-to-operate work in power tools should not stop at B-class searches alone.
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 Cordless Saws and Cutting Tools 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.