Where does BlackBerry Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), BlackBerry Limited ranks #92 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 BlackBerry Limited hold?

BlackBerry Limited holds 3,953 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 142 technology areas.

What is BlackBerry Limited's Innovation Score?

BlackBerry Limited has an Innovation Score of 67.9 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does BlackBerry Limited focus on?

BlackBerry Limited's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 1,909 patents. Grants appear in 142 CPC subclasses total.

Is BlackBerry Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

BlackBerry Limited's recent grant velocity is -73% 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 BlackBerry Limited's patents?

BlackBerry Limited's patents average 19.1 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 BlackBerry 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

BlackBerry Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,953 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: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Blackberry ranks #92 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,953 patents across 142 technology areas.

#92
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (67.9/100): 19.1
avg claims per patent: -73%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R92 · Foreign Corporation #92 · 3,953 grants

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

GRANTS-LARGE 4.0K grants
TOP-DECILE #92/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Monsanto Technology
CPC-WIDE H04W · 142 areas
INNOV-STRONG 67.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -73% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Monsanto Technology LLC (±3 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
Aurora Flight… · near

68
Siemens Aktiengesell… · near

68
BlackBerry · this assignee

68
Advanced Semiconduct… · near

68
L'Oreal · near

68
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Blackberry's Innovation Score is 67.9/100 (top 1% 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 Blackberry's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, BlackBerry Limited received 826 grants versus 3,076 in 2015–2019 (-73% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 1,086 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 88. Lead class H04W accounts for 48.3% of the portfolio across 142 subclasses. Volume neighbours: HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (#88) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (#96).

Blackberry's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, BlackBerry Limited moved from 810 to 347 grants (0.43x 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 #2,831. See the growth leaderboard.

HON HAI Precision…

4,005
Western Digital

3,986
LG Innotek

3,977
Monsanto Technolo…

3,956
Blackberry ◀

3,953
Deere &

3,926
Renesas

3,882
Fanuc

3,797
Massachusetts Ins…

3,784

What this shows BlackBerry holds 3,953 patents at rank #92, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near BlackBerry

By rank, the assignees closest to #92 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (68 here).

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft 68 Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company 68 L'Oreal 68 Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. 68

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.1 here).

Infineon Technologies AG 19.1 avg Apple Inc. 19.1 avg Electronic Arts Inc. 19.1 avg Uatc, LLC 19.1 avg

Blackberry's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

68 Top 1% higher than 99% 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.

View data table

BlackBerry Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1,086	27.5%
2016	792	20.0%
2017	521	13.2%
2018	346	8.8%
2019	331	8.4%
2020	262	6.6%
2021	217	5.5%
2022	131	3.3%
2023	128	3.2%
2024	88	2.2%
2025partial year	51	1.3%

Which technologies does BlackBerry Limited patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1,909

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 1,610

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1,276

H04M - Telephonic Communication 596

H04B - Transmission 362

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 299

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 245

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 203

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 112

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 95

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 87

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 83

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 78

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 66

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 56

Top 15 of 142 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#92

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

67.9 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

BlackBerry Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

BlackBerry Limited's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 48.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #92 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare BlackBerry Limited against HON HAI Precision Industry Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 67.9/100 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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