Where does Hallmark Cards, Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hallmark Cards, Incorporated ranks #3,773 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 Hallmark Cards, Incorporated hold?

Hallmark Cards, Incorporated holds 96 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 48 technology areas.

What is Hallmark Cards, Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Hallmark Cards, Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 57.0 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hallmark Cards, Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hallmark Cards, Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -28% 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 Hallmark Cards, Incorporated's patents?

Hallmark Cards, Incorporated's patents average 16.8 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 Hallmark Cards, Incorporated 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

Hallmark Cards, Incorporated

Q: What technology areas does Hallmark Cards, Incorporated focus on?

Hallmark Cards, Incorporated's top technology area is B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus) with 36 patents, ranking #10 of 253 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 48 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 96 granted patents across 48 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: B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hallmark ranks #3,773 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 96 patents across 48 technology areas.

#3,773
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (57.0/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent: -28%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3773 · US Corporation #3,773 · 96 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 96 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,773/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Federal Express
CPC-WIDE B42D · 48 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -28% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Federal Express Corporation (±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 Hallmark’s 57.0 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 15.8 pts (28%) Velocity 6.7 pts (12%) Breadth 24.5 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hallmark Cards… · this assignee

57
Kobelco Construction… · near

57
Nice · near

57
S&P Global · near

57
Telecom Italia S p A · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hallmark's Innovation Score is 57.0/100 (top 6% 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 Hallmark?

Each dot is one of Hallmark’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). Hallmark’s own 16.8 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.

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

Where Hallmark's grants concentrate

Hallmark Cards, Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 48 CPC subclasses with 37.5% of grants classified under B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (12 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2023. By volume, Hallmark sits between Federal Express Corporation and Knoll, Inc..

Hallmark's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hallmark Cards, Incorporated moved from 22 to 22 grants (1.00x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Federal Express

96
Floricultura

96
Hanmi Pharm

96
Hellermanntyton

96
J Morita MFG

96
John Bean

96
Karma Automotive

96
Knoll

96
Hallmark Cards In… ◀

96

What this shows Hallmark holds 96 patents at rank #3,775, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hallmark

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,775 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B42D (Books)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hallmark, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B42D (Books), Hallmark ranks #10 of 253 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

Telecom Italia S.p.A. 57 Nice Ltd. 57 Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd 57 S&P Global Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.8 here).

Balluff GMBH 16.8 avg Everi Payments Inc. 16.8 avg Innovation, LLC 16.8 avg Safran Seats USA LLC 16.8 avg

Hallmark's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Hallmark Cards, Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	11.5%
2016	11	11.5%
2017	12	12.5%
2018	8	8.3%
2019	8	8.3%
2020	9	9.4%
2021	5	5.2%
2022	9	9.4%
2023	4	4.2%
2024	9	9.4%
2025partial year	10	10.4%

Which technologies does Hallmark Cards, Incorporated patent most?

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 36

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 30

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 14

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 12

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 9

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 9

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 6

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 6

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 5

F21W - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO Uses OR Applications OF Lighting Devices OR Systems 5

F16C - SHAFTS; Flexible SHAFTS; Elements OR Crankshaft MECHANISMS; Rotary Bodies Other Than Gearing ELEMENTS; Bearings 4

G07B - Ticket-issuing APPARATUS; Fare-registering APPARATUS; Franking Apparatus 4

Top 15 of 48 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

Hallmark Cards, Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hallmark Cards, Incorporated's lead technology class is B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A), 37.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B42D
Ranked #3,773 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hallmark Cards, Incorporated against Federal Express Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.0/100 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.

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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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