This report covers filing trends of the above mentioned companies along with status of Patents, International Patent Classification and Priority Date. The study also provides the filing trends and status with the field of engineering to which they belong, along with details of all Patents filed by these companies since their inception.

The purpose of the study was to analyze the importance given by selected major Indian IT firms to innovation based on their Patent portfolio as a measure. Analysis of the Patenting activity provides an insight into current trends in intellectual property generation apart from providing an account of innovation and technological development taking place in the Information Technology sector. The study summarizes results of the research that was conducted on HCL Technologies Limited, Infosys Technologies Limited, Mahindra Satyam , Tata Consultancy Services Limited and Wipro Limited.