In nationals aspect, Hon Hai was in the first place, a total of 3086 patents, but it was a continuous decline in the number of applications for three years, the number of applications decrease of 8.35% over the previous year; followed by Wistron of 598 patents; ITRI ranked third of 584 patents, reduced the number of applications by 27% over the previous year; Acer ranked fourth of 561 patents; Inventec ranked fifth of 454 patents.

The Intellectual Property Office , said patent strategy of Hon Hai in recent years was quality not quantity, has caused declining of the number of patent applications; As the ITRI might be caused by budget reduction.

Intellectual property director Wang Mei-hua said that recession of the applications may be related to Taiwan's industrial transformation and relocation.

As for Foreigners, Apple ranked first of 581 patents, Samsung Electronics and Samsung displays were ranked second and third, of 458 and 425 patents, the annual growth rate of 144.9% and 77.8% , the highest growth of foreigners; Tokyo Electron ranked fourth of 398 patents ; Nitto Denko ranked fifth of 396 patents.