Where does Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited ranks #25,946 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 Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited hold?

Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 17 technology areas.

What is Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited's Innovation Score?

Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited has an Innovation Score of 36.4 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited's patents?

Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited'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 Canadian Bank Note Company, 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

Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited

Q: What technology areas does Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited focus on?

Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited's top technology area is B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus) with 9 patents, ranking #37 of 253 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 17 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 17 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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: B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Canadian ranks #25,946 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 17 technology areas.

#25,946
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.4/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R25946 · Foreign Corporation #25,946 · 10 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #25,946/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Caesarstone
CPC-FOCUS B42D · 17 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Caesarstone Ltd. (±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 Canadian’s 36.4 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 8.3 pts (23%) Velocity 4.4 pts (12%) Breadth 14.6 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Canadian Bank Note · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Canadian's Innovation Score is 36.4/100 (top 47% 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 Canadian?

Each dot is one of Canadian’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). Canadian’s own 15.1 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Canadian's grants concentrate

Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 17 CPC subclasses with 90% of grants classified under B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, Canadian sits between C.D.L. Electric Company, Inc. and Carbon Capture Inc..

Canadian's three-year grant acceleration

Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

C D L Electric

10
C G Bretting Manu…

10
Caesarstone

10
Calyxo

10
Canon Marketing J…

10
Capnia

10
Caraustar Industr…

10
Carbon Capture

10
Canadian Bank Note ◀

10

What this shows Canadian holds 10 patents at rank #25,941, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Canadian

By rank, the assignees closest to #25,941 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B42D (Books)

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

Canadian's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	20.0%
2016	3	30.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2021	2	20.0%
2022	1	10.0%
2024	1	10.0%

Which technologies does Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited patent most?

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 9

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 2

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

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

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 1

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 1

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 1

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 1

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 1

B44B - Machines, Apparatus OR Tools FOR Artistic Work, e.g. FOR Sculpturing, Guilloching, Carving, Branding, Inlaying 1

B41K - STAMPS; Stamping OR Numbering Apparatus OR Devices 1

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

Top 15 of 17 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

Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited's lead technology class is B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A), 90% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B42D
Ranked #25,946 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited against C.D.L. Electric Company, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.4/100 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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