Where does Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG ranks #2,703 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 Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG hold?

Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG holds 143 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 41 technology areas.

What is Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG's Innovation Score?

Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG has an Innovation Score of 52.0 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG's recent grant velocity is -41% 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 Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG's patents?

Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG'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 Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG 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

Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG

Q: What technology areas does Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG focus on?

Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG's top technology area is C25D (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor) with 89 patents, ranking #4 of 477 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 41 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 143 granted patents across 41 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: C25D (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Atotech ranks #2,703 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 143 patents across 41 technology areas.

#2,703
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (52.0/100): 15.0
avg claims per patent: -41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2703 · Foreign Corporation #2,703 · 143 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 143 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,703/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Contemporary Visions
CPC-WIDE C25D · 41 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Contemporary Visions, 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.

How Atotech’s 52.0 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 17.2 pts (33%) Velocity 3.3 pts (6%) Breadth 22.6 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.0 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
2236008 Ontario · near

52
Tyco Japan G K · near

52
Atotech Deutschland… · this assignee

52
Rhombus Systems · near

52
XIA TAI XIN… · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Atotech's Innovation Score is 52.0/100 (top 11% 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 Atotech?

Each dot is one of Atotech’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). Atotech’s own 15.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Atotech's grants concentrate

Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 41 CPC subclasses with 62.2% of grants classified under C25D (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (21 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2023. By volume, Atotech sits between Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd. and HAI Robotics Co., Ltd..

Atotech's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG moved from 47 to 23 grants (0.49x 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 #2,720. See the growth leaderboard.

Showa Denko Mater…

144
Statoil Petroleum…

144
Terrapower

144
Velos Media

144
Contemporary Visi…

143
E Ink California

143
Giga-byte Technol…

143
HAI Robotics

143
Atotech Deutschla… ◀

143

What this shows Atotech holds 143 patents at rank #2,703, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Atotech

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,703 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C25D (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Product…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Atotech, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C25D (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Product…), Atotech ranks #4 of 477 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

XIA TAI XIN Semiconductor (QING DAO) Ltd. 52 Rhombus Systems 52 2236008 Ontario Inc. 52 Tyco Electronics Japan G.K. 52

Similar claim depth

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

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG 15.0 avg SolarCity Corporation 15.0 avg Universite Claude Bernad Lyon 1 15.0 avg Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation 15.0 avg

Atotech's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% 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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Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	16	11.2%
2016	21	14.7%
2017	20	14.0%
2018	11	7.7%
2019	19	13.3%
2020	13	9.1%
2021	15	10.5%
2022	11	7.7%
2023	3	2.1%
2024	9	6.3%
2025partial year	5	3.5%

Which technologies does Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG patent most?

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 89

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 61

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 45

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 33

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 10

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 7

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 5

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 4

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 4

B05C - Apparatus FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 3

C25F - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic Removal OF Materials From OBJECTS; Apparatus Therefor 3

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 3

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 3

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 3

Top 15 of 41 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

Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG's lead technology class is C25D (Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor), 62.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C25D
Ranked #2,703 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Atotech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG against Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.0/100 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.

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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

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