Vegan Patent Analytics

November marks World Vegan Month which, this year, happily coincided with the COP26 conference. Veganism is becoming increasingly popular for reasons of sustainability, as well as ethical reasons. Eating less meat is believed to be one of the key steps that individuals can take to reduce their own carbon footprint. The total number of vegans in the world is currently estimated to be around 79 million, with this number expected to grow in years to come. In the UK, market-research in 2019 found that 40% of meat-eaters were also seeking to reduce their meat consumption.

As a result, we were interested to see if patents relating to vegan technology were keeping pace with the rise in plant-based food and consumer veganism. To conduct our analytics, we looked at any published patent application that mentions the term "vegan" within the full description in the last 25 years. This yielded a result of a massive 2745 patent families, including 10457 applications and 2952