Where does Arkema France rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Arkema France ranks #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 Arkema France hold?

Arkema France holds 892 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 142 technology areas.

What is Arkema France's Innovation Score?

Arkema France has an Innovation Score of 62.2 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Arkema France focus on?

Arkema France's top technology area is C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds) with 284 patents. Grants appear in 142 CPC subclasses total.

Is Arkema France's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Arkema France's recent grant velocity is -3% 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 Arkema France's patents?

Arkema France's patents average 15.6 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 Arkema France 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 Foreign Corporation

Arkema France

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 892 granted patents across 142 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: C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Arkema ranks #500 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 892 patents across 142 technology areas.

#500
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (62.2/100): 15.6
avg claims per patent: -3%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R500 · Foreign Corporation #500 · 892 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 892 grants
TOP-DECILE #500/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Illumina
CPC-WIDE C07C · 142 areas
INNOV-STRONG 62.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -3% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Illumina, Inc. (±2 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Autel Intelligent… · near

62
Avago General IP… · near

62
Zephyros · near

62
Arkema France · this assignee

62
Caterpillar Global… · near

62
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Arkema's Innovation Score is 62.2/100 (top 2% 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.

How Arkema's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Arkema France received 408 grants versus 422 in 2015–2019 (-3% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 108 grants and bottomed in 2023 at 58. Lead class C07C accounts for 31.8% of the portfolio across 142 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (#496) and Epistar Corporation (#504).

Arkema's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Arkema France moved from 311 to 205 grants (0.66x 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 #2,281. See the growth leaderboard.

Koito Manufacturi…

902
BAE Systems Infor…

900
Omnivision

897
Globalfoundries U…

896
Arkema France ◀

892
Illumina

890
Nissan North Amer…

890
Shell OIL Compny

890
Epistar

889

What this shows Arkema holds 892 patents at rank #500, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Arkema

By rank, the assignees closest to #500 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Arkema, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (62 here).

Caterpillar Global Mining LLC 62 Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. 62 Autel Intelligent Technology Corp., Ltd. 62 Zephyros, Inc. 62

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.6 here).

Sony Group Corporation 15.6 avg Ademco Inc. 15.6 avg Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc. 15.6 avg N.V. Nutricia 15.6 avg

Arkema's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

62 Top 2% higher than 98% 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.

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Arkema France patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	63	7.1%
2016	70	7.8%
2017	76	8.5%
2018	105	11.8%
2019	108	12.1%
2020	108	12.1%
2021	95	10.7%
2022	88	9.9%
2023	58	6.5%
2024	59	6.6%
2025partial year	62	7.0%

Which technologies does Arkema France patent most?

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 284

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 224

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 162

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 151

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 151

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 143

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 130

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 118

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 113

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 98

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 97

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 79

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 70

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 69

B01D - Separation 63

Top 15 of 142 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#500

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

62.2 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Arkema France's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Arkema France's lead technology class is C07C (Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds), 31.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C07C
Ranked #500 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Arkema France against Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 62.2/100 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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