Where does Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH ranks #17,811 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 Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH hold?

Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH's Innovation Score?

Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH has an Innovation Score of 44.2 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH's recent grant velocity is -33% 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 Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH's patents?

Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH's patents average 15.1 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH

Q: What technology areas does Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH focus on?

Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH's top technology area is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor) with 3 patents, ranking #732 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH 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 PatentsView assignee record - 16 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: C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Joanneum ranks #17,811 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 32 technology areas.

#17,811
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.2/100): 15.1
avg claims per patent: -33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R17811 · Foreign Corporation #17,811 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #17,811/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH JDS Therapeutics
CPC-FOCUS C09D · 32 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: JDS Therapeutics, LLC (±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 Joanneum’s 44.2 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 9.8 pts (22%) Velocity 5.3 pts (12%) Breadth 20.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Joanneum Research… · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Joanneum's Innovation Score is 44.2/100 (top 26% 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 Joanneum?

Each dot is one of Joanneum’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). Joanneum’s own 15.1 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Joanneum's grants concentrate

Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 18.8% of grants classified under C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Joanneum sits between JDS Therapeutics, LLC and JPL Global, LLC.

Joanneum's three-year grant acceleration

Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH shows 4 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.

JDS Therapeutics

16
Jenetric

16
Jgmg Bengochea

16
Jiangsu Goldwind…

16
John Guest Intern…

16
Joinesty

16
JP3 Measurement

16
JPL Global

16
Joanneum Research… ◀

16

What this shows Joanneum holds 16 patents at rank #17,805, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Joanneum

By rank, the assignees closest to #17,805 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Joanneum's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% 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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Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	12.5%
2016	1	6.3%
2017	1	6.3%
2018	2	12.5%
2019	3	18.8%
2020	1	6.3%
2021	1	6.3%
2022	2	12.5%
2023	1	6.3%
2024	1	6.3%
2025partial year	1	6.3%

Which technologies does Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH patent most?

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 3

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 3

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 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

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 1

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 1

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 1

G02F - Optical Devices OR Arrangements FOR THE Control OF Light BY Modification OF THE Optical Properties OF THE Media OF THE Elements Involved THEREIN; Non-linear OPTICS; Frequency-changing OF LIGHT; Optical Logic ELEMENTS; Optical ANALOGUE/DIGITAL Converters 1

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

A44C - Personal Adornments, e.g. JEWELLERY; Coins 1

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 1

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

Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH's lead technology class is C09D (Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materi), 18.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #17,811 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft MBH against JDS Therapeutics, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.2/100 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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