Where does Acco Brands Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Acco Brands Corporation ranks #2,218 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Acco Brands Corporation hold?

Acco Brands Corporation holds 177 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 52 technology areas.

What is Acco Brands Corporation's Innovation Score?

Acco Brands Corporation has an Innovation Score of 57.3 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Acco Brands Corporation focus on?

Acco Brands Corporation's top technology area is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing) with 41 patents, ranking #1,139 of 13,878 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 52 CPC subclasses total.

Is Acco Brands Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Acco Brands Corporation's recent grant velocity is -2% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Acco Brands Corporation's patents?

Acco Brands Corporation's patents average 15.0 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Acco Brands Corporation patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Acco Brands Corporation

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 177 granted patents across 52 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Acco ranks #2,218 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 177 patents across 52 technology areas.

#2,218
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.3/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -2%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2218 · US Corporation #2,218 · 177 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 177 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,218/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Archer-daniels-midland
CPC-WIDE G06F · 52 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-FLAT -2% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Archer-daniels-midland Company (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Acco’s 57.3 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 17.9 pts (31%) Velocity 5.4 pts (9%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Acco Brands · this assignee

57
DarkVision · near

57
GIESECKE+DEVRIENT… · near

57
Orpyx Medical · near

57
The University of… · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Acco's Innovation Score is 57.3/100 (top 5% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Acco?

Each dot is one of Acco’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Acco’s own 15.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Acco vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Acco's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Acco Brands Corporation received 84 grants versus 86 in 2015–2019 (-2% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 21 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 11. Lead class G06F accounts for 23.2% of the portfolio across 52 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Texas Tech University System (#2,214) and LS Electric Co., Ltd. (#2,222).

Acco's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Acco Brands Corporation moved from 56 to 45 grants (0.80x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,834. See the growth leaderboard.

Texas Tech Univer…

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Topcon Positionin…

178
Uacj

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Upm-kymmene

178
Archer-daniels-mi…

177
Bright Data

177
Interface Optoele…

177
LS Electric

177
Acco Brands ◀

177

What this shows Acco holds 177 patents at rank #2,218, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Acco

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,218 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Acco's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Acco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), Acco ranks #1,139 of 13,878 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

GIESECKE+DEVRIENT Currency Technology GMBH 57 The University of Melbourne 57 DarkVision Technologies Inc. 57 Orpyx Medical Technologies Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.0 here).

DR. Johannes Heidenhain GMBH 15.0 avg Patent Investment & Licensing Company 15.0 avg Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. 15.0 avg Telecommunication Systems, Inc. 15.0 avg

Acco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

57 Top 5% higher than 95% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

Acco Brands Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	11.9%
2016	21	11.9%
2017	14	7.9%
2018	13	7.3%
2019	17	9.6%
2020	20	11.3%
2021	19	10.7%
2022	16	9.0%
2023	11	6.2%
2024	18	10.2%
2025partial year	7	4.0%

Which technologies does Acco Brands Corporation patent most?

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 41

B42F - Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing 40

E05B - LOCKS; Accessories THEREFOR; Handcuffs 37

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 27

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 26

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 11

B42B - Permanently Attaching Together Sheets, Quires OR Signatures OR Permanently Attaching Objects Thereto 10

B42P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Books, Filing Appliances OR THE Like 8

A45F - Travelling OR Camp EQUIPMENT: Sacks OR Packs Carried ON THE Body 7

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 4

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 4

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 4

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 3

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 3

Top 15 of 52 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Acco Brands Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Acco Brands Corporation's lead technology class is G06F (Electric Digital Data Processing), 23.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06F
Ranked #2,218 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Acco Brands Corporation against Texas Tech University System, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.3/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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