Where does Agenus Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Agenus Inc. ranks #6,500 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 Agenus Inc. hold?

Agenus Inc. holds 51 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Agenus Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Agenus Inc. has an Innovation Score of 44.2 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Agenus Inc. focus on?

Agenus Inc.'s top technology area is C07K (Peptides) with 51 patents, ranking #171 of 3,615 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

Is Agenus Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Agenus Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +280% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Agenus Inc.'s patents?

Agenus Inc.'s patents average 29.4 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 Agenus Inc. 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

Agenus Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 51 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: C07K (Peptides).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Agenus ranks #6,500 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 51 patents across 8 technology areas.

#6,500
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.2/100): 29.4
avg claims per patent: +280%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6500 · US Corporation #6,500 · 51 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 51 grants
UPPER-Q #6,500/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Adama Makhteshim
CPC-NARROW C07K · 8 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.2/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 29.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +280% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Adama Makhteshim Ltd. (±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 Agenus’s 44.2 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 13.6 pts (31%) Velocity 5.6 pts (13%) Breadth 10.0 pts (23%) Claim depth 15.0 pts (34%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Agenus · this assignee

44
BeiGene · near

44
Genethon · near

44
MTS Systems · near

44
Sequenom · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Agenus's Innovation Score is 44.2/100 (top 26% 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 Agenus?

Each dot is one of Agenus’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). Agenus’s own 29.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 18.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Agenus's grants concentrate

Agenus Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under C07K (Peptides). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Agenus sits between Adama Makhteshim Ltd. and Built Robotics Inc..

Agenus's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Agenus Inc. moved from 24 to 20 grants (0.83x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Adama Makhteshim

51
Alphatheta

51
Amvac Chemical

51
AST & Science

51
Analytics For Life

51
Bauer Maschinen

51
Barracuda Networks

51
Built Robotics

51
Agenus ◀

51

What this shows Agenus holds 51 patents at rank #6,503, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Agenus

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,503 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C07K (Peptides)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Agenus, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C07K (Peptides), Agenus ranks #171 of 3,615 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Genethon 44 BeiGene, Ltd. 44 MTS Systems Corporation 44 Sequenom, Inc. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (29.4 here).

Mexichem Fluor S.A. DE C.V. 29.4 avg The Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co. Inc. 29.4 avg Halozyme, Inc. 29.3 avg Qualcomm Incorporated 29.1 avg

Agenus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Agenus Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	3.9%
2018	2	3.9%
2019	6	11.8%
2020	9	17.6%
2021	9	17.6%
2022	9	17.6%
2023	5	9.8%
2024	6	11.8%
2025partial year	3	5.9%

Which technologies does Agenus Inc. patent most?

C07K - Peptides 51

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 48

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 47

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 16

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 14

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 7

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 3

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 3

Top 8 of 8 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

Agenus Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Agenus Inc.'s lead technology class is C07K (Peptides), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C07K
Ranked #6,500 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Agenus Inc. against Adama Makhteshim Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.2/100 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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