Absolutely indispensable cycling patent data

🚴🏼‍♀️ ☀️ Back from your cycling weekend? Hungry for more of our Absolutely indispensable #patent #data? Well, look no further. And don’t be fooled—cycling isn’t just scenic views, smiles, and absurdly toned thighs. It is also an #IP battlefield.

💶 €10B+ is the estimated #value of the global bicycle drivetrain & components market. In high-end electronic shifting, competition is increasingly shaped by dense patent portfolios around wireless communication, battery systems, derailleur control and gear synchronization. Shimano alone has filed thousands of patents related to #bicycle component #technologies, helping it maintain one of the strongest IP positions in #cycling.

Your bike may be lightweight. The patent portfolio behind it most certainly is not.