Where does Geka GmbH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Geka GmbH ranks #7,699 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 Geka GmbH hold?

Geka GmbH holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Geka GmbH's Innovation Score?

Geka GmbH has an Innovation Score of 41.6 out of 100 (top 33% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Geka GmbH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Geka GmbH's recent grant velocity is -71% 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 Geka GmbH's patents?

Geka GmbH's patents average 11.3 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 Geka GmbH 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

Geka GmbH

Q: What technology areas does Geka GmbH focus on?

Geka GmbH's top technology area is A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring) with 25 patents, ranking #27 of 429 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 10 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: A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Geka ranks #7,699 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 10 technology areas.

#7,699
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 33%
by Innovation Score (41.6/100): 11.3
avg claims per patent: -71%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7699 · Foreign Corporation #7,699 · 42 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,699/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Fisher & Incorporated
CPC-FOCUS A45D · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.6/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -71% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fisher & Company, Incorporated (±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 Geka’s 41.6 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 13.0 pts (31%) Velocity 10.7 pts (26%) Breadth 11.2 pts (27%) Claim depth 6.8 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Callsign · near

42
Geka · this assignee

42
MongoDB · near

42
The Technology… · near

42
Wonderland Nurserygo… · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Geka's Innovation Score is 41.6/100 (top 33% 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 Geka?

Each dot is one of Geka’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). Geka’s own 11.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Geka's grants concentrate

Geka GmbH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 59.5% of grants classified under A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Geka sits between FPInnovations and Gramercy Products, LLC.

Geka's three-year grant acceleration

Geka GmbH shows 8 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Fpinnovations

42
Fuji Shoji

42
Fisher & Incorpor…

42
Garuda Technology

42
Golfzon

42
Grabtaxi Holdings…

42
Gutterglove

42
Gramercy Products

42
Geka ◀

42

What this shows Geka holds 42 patents at rank #7,699, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Geka

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,699 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Geka, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment), Geka ranks #27 of 429 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

The Technology Partnership PLC 42 MongoDB, Inc. 42 Wonderland Nurserygoods Company Limited 42 Callsign Inc. 42

Geka's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 33% higher than 67% 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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Geka GmbH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	14.3%
2016	8	19.0%
2017	9	21.4%
2018	4	9.5%
2019	4	9.5%
2020	1	2.4%
2022	4	9.5%
2023	2	4.8%
2024	2	4.8%
2025partial year	2	4.8%

Which technologies does Geka GmbH patent most?

A45D - Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring 25

A46B - Brushes 21

A46D - Manufacture OF Brushes 11

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 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

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

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 2

A45F - Travelling OR Camp EQUIPMENT: Sacks OR Packs Carried ON THE Body 1

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Geka GmbH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Geka GmbH's lead technology class is A45D (Hairdressing OR Shaving Equipment ; Equipment FOR Cosmetics OR Cosmetic Treatments, e.g. FOR Manicuring OR Pedicuring), 59.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A45D
Ranked #7,699 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Geka GmbH against FPInnovations, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.6/100 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

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