Where does European Molecular Biology Laboratory rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), European Molecular Biology Laboratory ranks #6,329 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 European Molecular Biology Laboratory hold?

European Molecular Biology Laboratory holds 53 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is European Molecular Biology Laboratory's Innovation Score?

European Molecular Biology Laboratory has an Innovation Score of 48.0 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is European Molecular Biology Laboratory's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

European Molecular Biology Laboratory's recent grant velocity is +63% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for European Molecular Biology Laboratory's patents?

European Molecular Biology Laboratory's patents average 13.8 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 European Molecular Biology Laboratory 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

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Q: What technology areas does European Molecular Biology Laboratory focus on?

European Molecular Biology Laboratory's top technology area is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties) with 21 patents, ranking #729 of 7,863 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 53 granted patents across 32 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: G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, European ranks #6,329 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 53 patents across 32 technology areas.

#6,329
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.0/100): 13.8
avg claims per patent: +63%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6329 · Foreign Corporation #6,329 · 53 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 53 grants
UPPER-Q #6,329/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Designs for Vision
CPC-FOCUS G01N · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +63% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Designs for Vision, 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 European’s 48.0 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 13.8 pts (29%) Velocity 5.9 pts (12%) Breadth 20.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 8.3 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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IHC Holland IE B V · near

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Longyear TM · near

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Pcms Holdings · near

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Roche Innovation… · near

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows European's Innovation Score is 48.0/100 (top 17% 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 European?

Each dot is one of European’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). European’s own 13.8 claims/patent is at or below the 18.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where European's grants concentrate

European Molecular Biology Laboratory is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 39.6% of grants classified under G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (8 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2023. By volume, European sits between Designs for Vision, Inc. and Greenlee Tools, Inc..

European's three-year grant acceleration

European Molecular Biology Laboratory shows 16 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 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.

Designs for Vision

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Digi International

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Ent Services Deve…

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Foshan Shunde Mid…

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Fuzhou University

53
Flamel Ireland

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Greenlee Tools

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What this shows European holds 53 patents at rank #6,328, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near European

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,328 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for European, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their…), European ranks #729 of 7,863 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Longyear TM, Inc. 48 Roche Innovation Center Copenhagen A/S 48 IHC Holland IE B.V. 48 Pcms Holdings, Inc. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (13.8 here).

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals S.A. 13.8 avg University OF Leicester 13.8 avg Aerin Medical Inc. 13.8 avg Lesaffre ET Compagnie 13.8 avg

European's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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European Molecular Biology Laboratory patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	9.4%
2016	3	5.7%
2017	3	5.7%
2018	5	9.4%
2019	3	5.7%
2020	8	15.1%
2021	7	13.2%
2022	8	15.1%
2023	2	3.8%
2024	6	11.3%
2025partial year	3	5.7%

Which technologies does European Molecular Biology Laboratory patent most?

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 21

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 20

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 18

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 14

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 11

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 10

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 9

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 9

C07K - Peptides 7

G16B - Bioinformatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Genetic OR Protein-related Data Processing IN Computational Molecular Biology 5

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G11C - Static Stores 2

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 2

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 2

Top 15 of 32 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

European Molecular Biology Laboratory's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

European Molecular Biology Laboratory's lead technology class is G01N (Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties), 39.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01N
Ranked #6,329 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare European Molecular Biology Laboratory against Designs for Vision, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.0/100 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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