Where does Merus N.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Merus N.V. ranks #7,736 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 Merus N.V. hold?

Merus N.V. holds 42 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 10 technology areas.

What is Merus N.V.'s Innovation Score?

Merus N.V. has an Innovation Score of 46.4 out of 100 (top 21% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Merus N.V. focus on?

Merus N.V.'s top technology area is C07K (Peptides) with 40 patents, ranking #239 of 3,615 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

Is Merus N.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Merus N.V.'s recent grant velocity is +125% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Merus N.V.'s patents?

Merus N.V.'s patents average 18.4 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 Merus N.V. 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

Merus N.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 42 granted patents across 10 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: C07K (Peptides).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Merus ranks #7,736 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 42 patents across 10 technology areas.

#7,736
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 21%
by Innovation Score (46.4/100): 18.4
avg claims per patent: +125%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7736 · Foreign Corporation #7,736 · 42 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 42 grants
UPPER-Q #7,736/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Life Fitness
CPC-FOCUS C07K · 10 areas
INNOV-PAR 46.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +125% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Life Fitness, 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 Merus’s 46.4 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 13.0 pts (28%) Velocity 11.1 pts (24%) Breadth 11.2 pts (24%) Claim depth 11.1 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Universitat DE… · near

46
Air Liquide… · near

46
Merus · this assignee

46
Intellectual… · near

46
Jeld-wen · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Merus's Innovation Score is 46.4/100 (top 21% 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 Merus?

Each dot is one of Merus’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). Merus’s own 18.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 8.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Merus's grants concentrate

Merus N.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 95.2% of grants classified under C07K (Peptides). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (9 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2021. By volume, Merus sits between Life Fitness, LLC and Mozarc Medical US LLC.

Merus's three-year grant acceleration

Merus N.V. shows 20 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Life Fitness

42
Linxens Holding

42
Maxwell

42
Melnor

42
Microsoft Mobile…

42
Modne

42
Morinaga Milk Ind…

42
Mozarc Medical US

42
Merus ◀

42

What this shows Merus holds 42 patents at rank #7,736, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Merus

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,736 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C07K (Peptides)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Merus, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C07K (Peptides), Merus ranks #239 of 3,615 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Air Liquide Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC 46 Universitat DE Valencia 46 Intellectual Ventures Fund 79 LLC 46 Jeld-wen, Inc. 46

Merus's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 21% higher than 79% 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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Merus N.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	7.1%
2018	4	9.5%
2019	5	11.9%
2020	5	11.9%
2021	2	4.8%
2022	4	9.5%
2023	7	16.7%
2024	9	21.4%
2025partial year	3	7.1%

Which technologies does Merus N.V. patent most?

C07K - Peptides 40

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 33

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 19

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 15

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 11

A01K - Animal HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; Rearing OR Breeding Animals, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; NEW Breeds OF Animals 11

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 8

C40B - Combinatorial CHEMISTRY; Libraries, e.g. Chemical Libraries 4

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 4

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

Top 10 of 10 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

Merus N.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Merus N.V.'s lead technology class is C07K (Peptides), 95.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C07K
Ranked #7,736 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Merus N.V. against Life Fitness, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 46.4/100 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

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.