Where does Bic-violex SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Bic-violex SA ranks #3,033 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 Bic-violex SA hold?

Bic-violex SA holds 125 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Bic-violex SA's Innovation Score?

Bic-violex SA has an Innovation Score of 44.3 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 Bic-violex SA focus on?

Bic-violex SA's top technology area is B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 118 patents, ranking #3 of 239 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

Is Bic-violex SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Bic-violex SA's recent grant velocity is +26% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Bic-violex SA's patents?

Bic-violex SA's patents average 15.1 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 Bic-violex SA 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

Bic-violex SA

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 125 granted patents across 22 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: B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Bic-violex ranks #3,033 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 125 patents across 22 technology areas.

#3,033
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.3/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: +26%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3033 · Foreign Corporation #3,033 · 125 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 125 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,033/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cabot
CPC-FOCUS B26B · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +26% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cabot Corporation (±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 Bic-violex’s 44.3 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 16.7 pts (38%) Velocity 2.0 pts (5%) Breadth 16.6 pts (37%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Bic-violex · this assignee

44
Fluence Bioengineering · near

44
H J Heinz Brands · near

44
Heathco · near

44
Jiangsu Hengrui… · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Bic-violex's Innovation Score is 44.3/100 (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 Bic-violex?

Each dot is one of Bic-violex’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). Bic-violex’s own 15.1 claims/patent is at or below the 15.1 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Bic-violex's grants concentrate

Bic-violex SA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 94.4% of grants classified under B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (28 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Bic-violex sits between Wiz, Inc. and Heraeus Quarzglas GMBH & Co. KG.

Bic-violex's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Bic-violex SA moved from 68 to 20 grants (0.29x 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 #3,004. See the growth leaderboard.

Wiz

126
Zobele Holding SPA

126
Zuiko

126
dspace digital si…

126
Cabot

125
Fingerprint Cards…

125
Fontem Holdings 1…

125
Heraeus Quarzglas…

125
Bic-violex ◀

125

What this shows Bic-violex holds 125 patents at rank #3,033, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Bic-violex

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,033 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Bic-violex's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Bic-violex, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools), Bic-violex ranks #3 of 239 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co., Ltd. 44 H.J. Heinz Company Brands LLC 44 Fluence Bioengineering, Inc. 44 Heathco LLC 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.1 here).

Goodrich Lighting Systems, Inc. 15.1 avg Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. 15.1 avg Dongguan Luxshare Technologies Co., Ltd 15.1 avg Medtronic CryoCath LP 15.1 avg

Bic-violex'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 · 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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Bic-violex SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	4.0%
2016	5	4.0%
2017	10	8.0%
2018	14	11.2%
2019	20	16.0%
2020	20	16.0%
2021	28	22.4%
2022	17	13.6%
2023	2	1.6%
2024	1	0.8%
2025partial year	3	2.4%

Which technologies does Bic-violex SA patent most?

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 118

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 12

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 7

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 6

A61Q - Specific USE OF Cosmetics OR Similar Toiletry Preparations 4

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

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

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 3

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 3

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 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

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 1

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 1

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Bic-violex SA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Bic-violex SA's lead technology class is B26B (Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 94.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B26B
Ranked #3,033 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Bic-violex SA against Wiz, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.3/100 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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