Hair Styling Appliances Patents: Who Leads, Where the Gaps Are 2026
Hair styling appliance patents: who holds the ground and where it is still open
Concentrated but not locked up. the leading assignee holds 267 records, yet the ranked leaders' top 5 combined account for only 21.5% of all 3,002 records in scope. Filings rose from 97 in 2017 to a peak of 199 in 2018, then eased. Because publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, 2025 and 2026 figures are still filling in and should not be read as a decline in current activity. The most recent complete-year comparison, 2021 to 2024, shows a modest 11% pullback, 130 down to 116 — a plateau rather than a collapse.
- 1JEMELLA LTD8.9%
- 2DYSON TECH LTD3.9%
- 3PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO LTD3.6%
- 4TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)2.5%
- 5UNIV OF UTAH RES FOUND2.5%
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Common questions about hair styling appliance patents
Who holds the most hair styling appliance patents?
The leading assignee in this dataset holds 267 records, well ahead of fifth place at 76 and tenth place at 37. However, the top 5 assignees combined account for only 21.5% of the 3,002 records in scope, and the top 10 for 30.8%, so the field is led by one clear filer but not dominated by a small group. The remaining 100 ranked assignees and the unranked long tail hold the majority of filing volume, which matters for anyone assuming a single company controls the category.
Is the hair styling appliance patent field growing or slowing down?
Filing peaked in 2018 at 199 records and has since settled to a lower, steadier level. The most recent complete-year comparison, 2021 to 2024, shows an 11% decrease (130 to 116 records), which reads as a plateau rather than a sharp decline. Figures for 2025 and 2026 are still incomplete because publication typically lags filing by around 18 months, so those years should not be used to call a trend either way.
What technology areas do hair styling appliance patents actually cover?
Nearly half of records, 47.3% of the 3,002 in scope, sit in IPC class A45D, covering hairdressing and toilet equipment generally. Beyond that, meaningful volume sits in A61K (medicinal preparations, 9.3%), A61Q (cosmetics use, 6.8%), H05B (electric heating circuits, 5.5%) and H02K (electric motors, 3.6%), showing the field spans formulation, heating hardware and motor design rather than being purely mechanical. Since a single record can carry multiple IPC classes, these percentages overlap rather than sum to 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 Hair Styling Appliances 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.