Where does Dover Europe Sàrl rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dover Europe Sàrl ranks #3,769 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 Dover Europe Sàrl hold?

Dover Europe Sàrl holds 96 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 31 technology areas.

What is Dover Europe Sàrl's Innovation Score?

Dover Europe Sàrl has an Innovation Score of 49.5 out of 100 (top 15% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dover Europe Sàrl's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dover Europe Sàrl's recent grant velocity is -6% 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 Dover Europe Sàrl's patents?

Dover Europe Sàrl's patents average 17.2 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 Dover Europe Sàrl 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

Dover Europe Sàrl

Q: What technology areas does Dover Europe Sàrl focus on?

Dover Europe Sàrl's top technology area is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors) with 62 patents. Grants appear in 31 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 96 granted patents across 31 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: B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Dover ranks #3,769 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 96 patents across 31 technology areas.

#3,769
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 15%
by Innovation Score (49.5/100): 17.2
avg claims per patent: -6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3769 · Foreign Corporation #3,769 · 96 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 96 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,769/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cognizant Technology…
CPC-FOCUS B41J · 31 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cognizant Technology Solutions India PVT. 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sumitomo Electric… · near

49
ARM IP · near

49
CPG · near

49
Dover Europe Sàrl · this assignee

49
Enterprise Holdings · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dover's Innovation Score is 49.5/100 (top 15% 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.

Where Dover's grants concentrate

Dover Europe Sàrl is a focused PatentsView assignee: 31 CPC subclasses with 64.6% of grants classified under B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (18 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2015. By volume, Dover sits between Cognizant Technology Solutions India PVT. Ltd. and Hanmi Pharm. Co., Ltd..

Dover's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Dover Europe Sàrl moved from 40 to 22 grants (0.55x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Cognizant Technol…

96
Conversant Wirele…

96
Covestro Intellec…

96
Crosman

96
Erico Internation…

96
Federal Express

96
Floricultura

96
Hanmi Pharm

96
Dover Europe Sàrl ◀

96

What this shows Dover holds 96 patents at rank #3,769, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dover

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,769 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41J (Typewriters)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

CPG Technologies, LLC 49 ARM IP Limited 49 Enterprise Holdings, Inc. 49 Sumitomo Electric Sintered Alloy, Ltd. 49

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.2 here).

Ecole Superieure DE Physique ET DE Chimie Industrielles DE LA Ville DE Paris 17.2 avg TomTom Navigation B.V. 17.2 avg Navico, Inc. 17.2 avg Blueprint Medicines Corporation 17.2 avg

Dover's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 15% higher than 85% 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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Dover Europe Sàrl patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	2.1%
2016	3	3.1%
2017	10	10.4%
2018	14	14.6%
2019	18	18.8%
2020	13	13.5%
2021	9	9.4%
2022	11	11.5%
2023	7	7.3%
2024	4	4.2%
2025partial year	5	5.2%

Which technologies does Dover Europe Sàrl patent most?

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 62

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 12

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 10

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 9

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 7

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 6

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

G01F - Measuring Volume, Volume Flow, Mass Flow OR Liquid LEVEL; Metering BY Volume 5

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 5

G05B - Control OR Regulating Systems IN GENERAL; Functional Elements OF Such SYSTEMS; Monitoring OR Testing Arrangements FOR Such Systems OR Elements 5

D06P - Dyeing OR Printing TEXTILES; Dyeing Leather, Furs OR Solid Macromolecular Substances IN ANY Form 5

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 4

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 4

D06B - Treating Textile Materials Using Liquids, Gases OR Vapours 4

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 4

Top 15 of 31 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,769

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

49.5 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

Dover Europe Sàrl's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dover Europe Sàrl's lead technology class is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors), 64.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41J
Ranked #3,769 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dover Europe Sàrl against Cognizant Technology Solutions India PVT. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.5/100 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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