Where does Etablissements Caillau rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Etablissements Caillau ranks #19,736 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 Etablissements Caillau hold?

Etablissements Caillau holds 14 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 6 technology areas.

What is Etablissements Caillau's Innovation Score?

Etablissements Caillau has an Innovation Score of 27.8 out of 100 (25th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Etablissements Caillau's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Etablissements Caillau'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 Etablissements Caillau's patents?

Etablissements Caillau's patents average 16.3 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 Etablissements Caillau 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

Etablissements Caillau

Q: What technology areas does Etablissements Caillau focus on?

Etablissements Caillau's top technology area is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General) with 12 patents, ranking #154 of 1,907 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 6 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 14 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: F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Etablissements ranks #19,736 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 14 patents across 6 technology areas.

#19,736
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 25th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.8/100): 16.3
avg claims per patent: -73%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R19736 · Foreign Corporation #19,736 · 14 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 14 grants
MID-PACK #19,736/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Epoca International
CPC-NARROW F16L · 6 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -73% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Epoca International, 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 Etablissements’s 27.8 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 9.4 pts (34%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 8.7 pts (31%) Claim depth 9.8 pts (35%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Etablissements Caillau · this assignee

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What this shows Etablissements's Innovation Score is 27.8/100 (25th 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 Etablissements?

Each dot is one of Etablissements’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). Etablissements’s own 16.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Etablissements's grants concentrate

Etablissements Caillau is a focused PatentsView assignee: 6 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Etablissements sits between Epoca International, Inc. and Evolution Power Tools Limited.

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What this shows Etablissements holds 14 patents at rank #19,745, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Etablissements

By rank, the assignees closest to #19,745 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in F16L (Pipes)

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

Etablissements's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 25th percentile higher than 25% 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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Etablissements Caillau patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	28.6%
2016	1	7.1%
2017	2	14.3%
2018	1	7.1%
2019	3	21.4%
2020	3	21.4%

Which technologies does Etablissements Caillau patent most?

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 12

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 4

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 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

F01N - Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Machines OR Engines IN GENERAL; Gas-flow Silencers OR Exhaust Apparatus FOR Internal-combustion Engines 1

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

Etablissements Caillau's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Etablissements Caillau's lead technology class is F16L (PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore F16L
Ranked #19,736 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Etablissements Caillau against Epoca International, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.8/100 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

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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

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