Where does Formosa Plastics Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Formosa Plastics Corporation ranks #6,651 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 Formosa Plastics Corporation hold?

Formosa Plastics Corporation holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 33 technology areas.

What is Formosa Plastics Corporation's Innovation Score?

Formosa Plastics Corporation has an Innovation Score of 61.1 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Formosa Plastics Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Formosa Plastics Corporation's recent grant velocity is +114% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Formosa Plastics Corporation's patents?

Formosa Plastics Corporation's patents average 17.0 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 Formosa Plastics Corporation 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

Formosa Plastics Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Formosa Plastics Corporation focus on?

Formosa Plastics Corporation's top technology area is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds) with 30 patents, ranking #104 of 1,231 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 33 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 33 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: C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Formosa ranks #6,651 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 33 technology areas.

#6,651
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.1/100): 17.0
avg claims per patent: +114%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6651 · Foreign Corporation #6,651 · 50 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,651/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH European Space Agency
CPC-FOCUS C08F · 33 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +114% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: European Space Agency (±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 Formosa’s 61.1 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 13.6 pts (22%) Velocity 17.0 pts (28%) Breadth 20.3 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.2 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Katholieke Universit… · near

61
OpenLight Photonics · near

61
Ultima Genomics · near

61
Formosa Plastics · this assignee

61
Research Institute… · near

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Formosa's Innovation Score is 61.1/100 (top 3% 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 Formosa?

Each dot is one of Formosa’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). Formosa’s own 17.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Formosa's grants concentrate

Formosa Plastics Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 33 CPC subclasses with 60% of grants classified under C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (12 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Formosa sits between European Space Agency and Foamix Pharamaceuticals Ltd..

Formosa's three-year grant acceleration

Formosa Plastics Corporation shows 23 grants in 2022–2024 against only 9 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.

European Space Ag…

50
F5

50
Fluid Handling

50
Focaltech Systems

50
FundaciÓ Institut…

50
Ferroelectric Mem…

50
Fiduciary Benchma…

50
Foamix Pharamaceu…

50
Formosa Plastics ◀

50

What this shows Formosa holds 50 patents at rank #6,648, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Formosa

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,648 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Invol…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Formosa, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Invol…), Formosa ranks #104 of 1,231 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (61 here).

Research Institute OF Industrial Science & Technology 61 Ultima Genomics, Inc. 61 OpenLight Photonics, Inc. 61 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 61

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.0 here).

St. Jude Medical Puerto Rico LLC 17.0 avg Kraton Polymers LLC 17.0 avg Valeo North America, Inc. 17.0 avg Zebra Technologies Corporation 17.0 avg

Formosa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% 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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Formosa Plastics Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.0%
2016	1	2.0%
2017	5	10.0%
2018	4	8.0%
2019	2	4.0%
2020	4	8.0%
2021	3	6.0%
2022	6	12.0%
2023	5	10.0%
2024	12	24.0%
2025partial year	6	12.0%

Which technologies does Formosa Plastics Corporation patent most?

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 30

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 12

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 11

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 10

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 6

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 5

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 4

D01D - Mechanical Methods OR Apparatus IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR Ribbons 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 3

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

D10B - Indexing Scheme Associated With Sublasses OF Section D, Relating TO Textiles 3

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

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 3

Top 15 of 33 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

Formosa Plastics Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Formosa Plastics Corporation's lead technology class is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08F
Ranked #6,651 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Formosa Plastics Corporation against European Space Agency, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.1/100 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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