Where does Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc ranks #20,774 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc hold?

Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc holds 13 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc's Innovation Score?

Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc has an Innovation Score of 35.9 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc's recent grant velocity is -92% 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 Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc's patents?

Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc's patents average 18.3 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc

Q: What technology areas does Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc focus on?

Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc's top technology area is C08G (MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc 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 PatentsView assignee record - 13 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: C08G (MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ashland ranks #20,774 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 13 patents across 20 technology areas.

#20,774
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.9/100): 18.3
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R20774 · US Corporation #20,774 · 13 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 13 grants
MID-PACK #20,774/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Arthrology Consulting
CPC-FOCUS C08G · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Arthrology Consulting, Llc (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ashland Licensing An… · this assignee

36
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Ashland's Innovation Score is 35.9/100 (top 48% 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.

Where Ashland's grants concentrate

Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc is a focused PatentsView assignee: 20 CPC subclasses with 38.5% of grants classified under C08G (MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Ashland sits between Arthrology Consulting, Llc and Atlantic Health System, Inc..

Arthrology Consul…

13
Asahi Kasei Const…

13
Asahi Polyslider

13
Ascent Solar

13
Astrazeneca Pharm…

13
Asymptote

13
Athenex

13
Atlantic Health S…

13
Ashland Licensing… ◀

13

What this shows Ashland holds 13 patents at rank #20,784, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ashland

By rank, the assignees closest to #20,784 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise THAN BY React…)

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

Ashland's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	23.1%
2016	3	23.1%
2017	3	23.1%
2018	2	15.4%
2019	1	7.7%
2020	1	7.7%

Which technologies does Ashland Licensing And Intellectual Property Llc patent most?

C08G - MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS 5

B32B - LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM 4

Y10T - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION 4

C09J - ADHESIVES; NON-MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF ADHESIVE PROCESSES IN GENERAL; ADHESIVE PROCESSES NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF MATERIALS AS ADHESIVES 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE 3

C23F - NON-MECHANICAL REMOVAL OF METALLIC MATERIAL FROM SURFACE ; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL; MULTI-STEP PROCESSES FOR SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL INVOLVING AT LEAST ONE PROCESS PROVIDED FOR IN CLASS C23 AND AT LEAST ONE PROCESS COVERED BY SUBCLASS C21D 3

C08L - COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS 3

F02B - INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES; COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL 1

B08B - CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL 1

F02M - SUPPLYING COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL WITH COMBUSTIBLE MIXTURES OR CONSTITUENTS THEREOF 1

C11D - DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL 1

D21H - PULP COMPOSITIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR 1

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 1

B41M - PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING, 1

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#20,774

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

35.9 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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