Where does Ethical Coffee Company SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ethical Coffee Company SA ranks #35,236 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 Ethical Coffee Company SA hold?

Ethical Coffee Company SA holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2017, spanning 3 technology areas.

What is Ethical Coffee Company SA's Innovation Score?

Ethical Coffee Company SA has an Innovation Score of 22.6 out of 100 (10th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ethical Coffee Company SA focus on?

Ethical Coffee Company SA's top technology area is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages) with 6 patents, ranking #170 of 793 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 3 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ethical Coffee Company SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ethical Coffee Company SA's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Ethical Coffee Company SA's patents?

Ethical Coffee Company SA's patents average 15.4 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 Ethical Coffee Company 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

Ethical Coffee Company SA

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 3 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2017. 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: A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ethical ranks #35,236 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 3 technology areas.

#35,236
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 10th percentile
by Innovation Score (22.6/100): 15.4
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R35236 · Foreign Corporation #35,236 · 7 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #35,236/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Essencore
CPC-NARROW A47J · 3 areas
INNOV-THIN 22.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Essencore Limited (±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 Ethical’s 22.6 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 7.2 pts (32%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 6.1 pts (27%) Claim depth 9.3 pts (41%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Ethical Coffee · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Ethical's Innovation Score is 22.6/100 (10th 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 Ethical?

Each dot is one of Ethical’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). Ethical’s own 15.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Ethical's grants concentrate

Ethical Coffee Company SA is a focused PatentsView assignee: 3 CPC subclasses with 85.7% of grants classified under A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Ethical sits between Essencore Limited and Evergreen Land Limited.

Essencore

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Estar

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Etablissements Pi…

7
Etherwhere

7
Eurenco

7
Euticals SPA

7
Evac OY

7
Evergreen Land

7
Ethical Coffee ◀

7

What this shows Ethical holds 7 patents at rank #35,167, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ethical

By rank, the assignees closest to #35,167 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A47J (Kitchen Equipment)

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

Ethical's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

23 10th percentile higher than 10% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2017

Grants by year

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

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Ethical Coffee Company SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	14.3%
2016	1	14.3%
2017	5	71.4%

Which technologies does Ethical Coffee Company SA patent most?

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 6

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 5

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 3

Top 3 of 3 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Ethical Coffee Company SA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ethical Coffee Company SA's lead technology class is A47J (Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A47J
Ranked #35,236 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ethical Coffee Company SA against Essencore Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 22.6/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.