Where does Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG) rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG) ranks #15,443 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 Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG) hold?

Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG) holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG)'s Innovation Score?

Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG) has an Innovation Score of 43.4 out of 100 (top 28% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG)'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG)'s recent grant velocity is -27% 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 Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG)'s patents?

Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG)'s patents average 17.6 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 Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG) 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

Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG)

Q: What technology areas does Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG) focus on?

Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG)'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 18 patents, ranking #176 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 28 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, Mankiewicz ranks #15,443 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 28 technology areas.

#15,443
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 28%
by Innovation Score (43.4/100): 17.6
avg claims per patent: -27%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15443 · Foreign Corporation #15,443 · 19 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,443/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Living Proof
CPC-FOCUS C09D · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -27% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Living Proof, Inc. (±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 Mankiewicz’s 43.4 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 10.3 pts (24%) Velocity 3.8 pts (9%) Breadth 18.7 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Mankiewicz Gebr & (… · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mankiewicz's Innovation Score is 43.4/100 (top 28% 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 Mankiewicz?

Each dot is one of Mankiewicz’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). Mankiewicz’s own 17.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 16.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Mankiewicz's grants concentrate

Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG) is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 94.7% 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 2020 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Mankiewicz sits between Living Proof, Inc. and Medytox Inc..

Mankiewicz's three-year grant acceleration

Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG) shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 7 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.

Living Proof

19
Lumitex

19
Lynx Software

19
M-files OY

19
Maquet SAS

19
Medi & KG

19
Medstar Health

19
Medytox

19
Mankiewicz Gebr &… ◀

19

What this shows Mankiewicz holds 19 patents at rank #15,438, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mankiewicz

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,438 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Mankiewicz's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 28% higher than 72% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG) patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	10.5%
2016	2	10.5%
2017	1	5.3%
2018	3	15.8%
2019	3	15.8%
2020	4	21.1%
2022	1	5.3%
2023	2	10.5%
2024	1	5.3%

Which technologies does Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG) 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 18

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 9

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 8

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 6

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 6

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 4

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 4

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 4

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 2

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 2

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 2

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 2

Top 15 of 28 technology areas

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What to do with this data

Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG)'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG)'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), 94.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #15,443 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mankiewicz Gebr. & Co. (GMBH & CO.KG) against Living Proof, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.4/100 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

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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

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