Where does Gpcp IP Holdings LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Gpcp IP Holdings LLC ranks #1,276 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 Gpcp IP Holdings LLC hold?

Gpcp IP Holdings LLC holds 331 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 88 technology areas.

What is Gpcp IP Holdings LLC's Innovation Score?

Gpcp IP Holdings LLC has an Innovation Score of 59.7 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Gpcp IP Holdings LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Gpcp IP Holdings LLC's recent grant velocity is +24% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Gpcp IP Holdings LLC's patents?

Gpcp IP Holdings LLC's patents average 19.6 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 Gpcp IP Holdings LLC 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 US Corporation

Gpcp IP Holdings LLC

Q: What technology areas does Gpcp IP Holdings LLC focus on?

Gpcp IP Holdings LLC's top technology area is D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 102 patents, ranking #5 of 361 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 88 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 331 granted patents across 88 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherw).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Gpcp ranks #1,276 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 331 patents across 88 technology areas.

#1,276
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (59.7/100): 19.6
avg claims per patent: +24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1276 · US Corporation #1,276 · 331 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 331 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,276/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Columbia Insurance
CPC-WIDE D21H · 88 areas
INNOV-PAR 59.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Columbia Insurance Company (±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 Gpcp’s 59.7 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 20.1 pts (34%) Velocity 2.9 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Academia Sinica · near

60
Auris Health · near

60
Gpcp IP Holdings · this assignee

60
Johnson Matthey Public · near

60
Nielsen Consumer · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Gpcp's Innovation Score is 59.7/100 (top 4% 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 Gpcp?

Each dot is one of Gpcp’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). Gpcp’s own 19.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Gpcp's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Gpcp IP Holdings LLC received 178 grants versus 143 in 2015–2019 (+24% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2019 at 73 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 11. Lead class D21H accounts for 30.8% of the portfolio across 88 subclasses. Volume neighbours: ICU Medical, Inc. (#1,272) and Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt EN Zaadhandel B.V. (#1,280).

Gpcp's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Gpcp IP Holdings LLC moved from 175 to 76 grants (0.43x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,820. See the growth leaderboard.

ICU Medical

332
Soitec

332
Toyobo

332
Columbia Insurance

331
Jiangsu University

331
Safran & Defense

331
Gpcp IP Holdings ◀

331
Louis Vuitton Mal…

330
Rijk Zwaan Zaadte…

330

What this shows Gpcp holds 331 patents at rank #1,276, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Gpcp

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,276 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D21H (Pulp Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Gpcp, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In D21H (Pulp Compositions), Gpcp ranks #5 of 361 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company 60 Nielsen Consumer LLC 60 Academia Sinica 60 Auris Health, Inc. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.6 here).

Amgen Inc. 19.6 avg Skyworks Solutions, Inc. 19.6 avg Cambridge Mechatronics Limited 19.6 avg Clearpath Robotics Inc. 19.6 avg

Gpcp's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

60 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Gpcp IP Holdings LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	11	3.3%
2018	59	17.8%
2019	73	22.1%
2020	64	19.3%
2021	38	11.5%
2022	26	7.9%
2023	34	10.3%
2024	16	4.8%
2025partial year	10	3.0%

Which technologies does Gpcp IP Holdings LLC patent most?

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 102

A47K - Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories 96

D21F - Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon 60

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 44

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 35

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 35

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 23

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 21

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 20

D21G - CALENDERS; Accessories FOR Paper-making Machines 18

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 16

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 16

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 13

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 11

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 11

Top 15 of 88 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

Gpcp IP Holdings LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Gpcp IP Holdings LLC's lead technology class is D21H (Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherw), 30.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D21H
Ranked #1,276 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Gpcp IP Holdings LLC against ICU Medical, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 59.7/100 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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