Where does Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited ranks #18,424 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 Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited hold?

Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited holds 15 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited's Innovation Score?

Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited has an Innovation Score of 30.4 out of 100 (34th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited's recent grant velocity is -93% 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 Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited's patents?

Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited's patents average 20.2 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 Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited 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

Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited

Q: What technology areas does Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited focus on?

Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited's top technology area is C11B (Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes) with 13 patents, ranking #17 of 233 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 15 granted patents across 6 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: C11B (Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Basf ranks #18,424 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 15 patents across 6 technology areas.

#18,424
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 34th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.4/100): 20.2
avg claims per patent: -93%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18424 · Foreign Corporation #18,424 · 15 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 15 grants
MID-PACK #18,424/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH B-temia
CPC-NARROW C11B · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 20.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -93% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: B-temia Inc. (±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 Basf’s 30.4 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 9.6 pts (32%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 8.7 pts (29%) Claim depth 12.1 pts (40%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Crrc Qiqihar… · near

30
Basf Pharma… · this assignee

30
BladeLogic · near

30
Synack · near

30
Webasto-edscha Cabrio · near

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Basf's Innovation Score is 30.4/100 (34th percentile 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 Basf?

Each dot is one of Basf’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). Basf’s own 20.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Basf's grants concentrate

Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 86.7% of grants classified under C11B (Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (7 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Basf sits between B-temia Inc. and Beijing Source Technology Co., Ltd..

B-temia

15
Bartesian

15
Baruch S Blumberg…

15
Base4 Innovation

15
BCD Semiconductor…

15
Beghelli SPA

15
Beha Viosec

15
Beijing Source Te…

15
Basf Pharma (Call… ◀

15

What this shows Basf holds 15 patents at rank #18,423, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Basf

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,423 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C11B (Producing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Basf, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C11B (Producing), Basf ranks #17 of 233 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (30 here).

BladeLogic, Inc. 30 Synack, Inc. 30 Webasto-edscha Cabrio GMBH 30 Crrc Qiqihar Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. 30

Basf's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 34th percentile higher than 34% of 49,997 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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Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	6.7%
2016	7	46.7%
2017	4	26.7%
2019	2	13.3%
2020	1	6.7%

Which technologies does Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited patent most?

C11B - Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes 13

B01D - Separation 13

C11C - Fatty Acids From Fats, Oils OR WAXES; CANDLES; Fats, Oils OR Fatty Acids BY Chemical Modification OF Fats, Oils, OR Fatty Acids Obtained Therefrom 11

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 7

A23D - Edible Oils OR Fats, e.g. Margarines, Shortenings OR Cooking Oils 4

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 2

Top 6 of 6 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

Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited's lead technology class is C11B (Producing, e.g. BY Pressing RAW Materials OR BY Extraction From Waste Materials, Refining OR Preserving Fats, Fatty Substances, e.g. Lanolin, Fatty Oils OR WAXES; Essential OILS; Perfumes), 86.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C11B
Ranked #18,424 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Basf Pharma (Callanish) Limited against B-temia Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.4/100 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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