Abstract: HUAWEI Company is very active in patent activities and technological innovation and has carried out a large number of industry-university-research institutes patent collaborations as the leader of China's telecommunications industry. Through the data statistics of HUAWEI Company’s industry-university-research institute patent collaborative invention patents, this paper analyzes the basic characteristics of industry-university-research institute patent collaborations of HUAWEI Company and makes visual description by using the method of patent bibliometric, social network analysis and UCINET software. It reveals the phase evolution characteristics and network properties of industry-university-research institute patent collaborations and then some laws and enlightenment about the patent industry-university-research institute collaborations are concluded. This research may provide reference for Chinese enterprises to carry out patent industry-university-research institute collaborations as well as develop and manage patent cooperation network.