Where does Life Technologies AS rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Life Technologies AS ranks #8,634 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 Life Technologies AS hold?

Life Technologies AS holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is Life Technologies AS's Innovation Score?

Life Technologies AS has an Innovation Score of 43.0 out of 100 (top 29% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Life Technologies AS focus on?

Life Technologies AS's top technology area is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds) with 23 patents, ranking #138 of 1,231 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

Is Life Technologies AS's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Life Technologies AS's recent grant velocity is -43% 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 Life Technologies AS's patents?

Life Technologies AS's patents average 16.6 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 Life Technologies AS 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

Life Technologies AS

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 21 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, Life ranks #8,634 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 21 technology areas.

#8,634
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 29%
by Innovation Score (43.0/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: -43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8634 · Foreign Corporation #8,634 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,634/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Lamplight Farms…
CPC-FOCUS C08F · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Lamplight Farms 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 Life’s 43.0 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 12.6 pts (29%) Velocity 4.2 pts (10%) Breadth 16.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cooler Master… · near

43
Life AS · this assignee

43
Reddy ICE · near

43
Graco Children's… · near

43
Qwest Communications… · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Life's Innovation Score is 43.0/100 (top 29% 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 Life?

Each dot is one of Life’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). Life’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Life's grants concentrate

Life Technologies AS is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 62.2% of grants classified under C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (7 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Life sits between Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH and Match Group, LLC.

Life's three-year grant acceleration

Life Technologies AS shows 7 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Liebherr-aerospac…

37
Lamplight Farms I…

37
Lenovo (United St…

37
Liebert

37
Ligand Pharmaceut…

37
Luminar

37
Maruzen Petrochem…

37
Match Group

37
Life AS ◀

37

What this shows Life holds 37 patents at rank #8,633, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Life

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,633 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Life, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Invol…), Life ranks #138 of 1,231 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Cooler Master Technology Inc. 43 Reddy ICE LLC 43 Qwest Communications International Inc. 43 Graco Children's Products, Inc. 43

Life's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 29% higher than 71% 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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Life Technologies AS patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	16.2%
2016	7	18.9%
2017	2	5.4%
2018	3	8.1%
2019	5	13.5%
2020	3	8.1%
2021	3	8.1%
2022	2	5.4%
2023	3	8.1%
2024	2	5.4%
2025partial year	1	2.7%

Which technologies does Life Technologies AS patent most?

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 23

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 15

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 13

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 13

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 10

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 9

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 7

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

B01L - Chemical OR Physical Laboratory Apparatus FOR General USE 5

B03C - Magnetic OR Electrostatic Separation OF Solid Materials From Solid Materials OR FLUIDS; Separation BY High-voltage Electric Fields 5

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 2

C07K - Peptides 2

Top 15 of 21 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

Life Technologies AS's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Life Technologies AS's lead technology class is C08F (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds), 62.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08F
Ranked #8,634 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Life Technologies AS against Liebherr-aerospace Lindenberg GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.0/100 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.

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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.