Where does Mimecast Services Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Mimecast Services Ltd. ranks #11,350 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 Mimecast Services Ltd. hold?

Mimecast Services Ltd. holds 27 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Mimecast Services Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Mimecast Services Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 39.4 out of 100 (top 38% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Mimecast Services Ltd. focus on?

Mimecast Services Ltd.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 22 patents, ranking #1,265 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Mimecast Services Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Mimecast Services Ltd.'s recent grant velocity is +400% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Mimecast Services Ltd.'s patents?

Mimecast Services Ltd.'s patents average 21.0 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 Mimecast Services Ltd. 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

Mimecast Services Ltd.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 27 granted patents across 5 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Mimecast ranks #11,350 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 27 patents across 5 technology areas.

#11,350
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 38%
by Innovation Score (39.4/100): 21.0
avg claims per patent: +400%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11350 · Foreign Corporation #11,350 · 27 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 27 grants
UPPER-Q #11,350/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH McMaster-Carr Supply
CPC-NARROW H04L · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 39.4/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +400% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: McMaster-Carr Supply Company (±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 Mimecast’s 39.4 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 11.5 pts (29%) Velocity 7.3 pts (19%) Breadth 7.9 pts (20%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (32%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Channel Medsystems · near

39
Mimecast Services · this assignee

39
Molo Design · near

39
Project Phoenix · near

39
uBiome · near

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Mimecast's Innovation Score is 39.4/100 (top 38% 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 Mimecast?

Each dot is one of Mimecast’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). Mimecast’s own 21.0 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.

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

Where Mimecast's grants concentrate

Mimecast Services Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 81.5% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Mimecast sits between McMaster-Carr Supply Company and Munters Corporation.

Mimecast's three-year grant acceleration

Mimecast Services Ltd. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 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.

Mcmaster-carr Sup…

27
Menarini Silicon…

27
Micron Devices

27
Miir Holdings

27
Miracor Medical

27
Mitsubishi Materi…

27
Morphotrak

27
Munters

27
Mimecast Services ◀

27

What this shows Mimecast holds 27 patents at rank #11,350, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Mimecast

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,350 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Mimecast, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Mimecast ranks #1,265 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Molo Design, Ltd. 39 Project Phoenix, LLC 39 Channel Medsystems, Inc. 39 uBiome, Inc. 39

Mimecast's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 38% higher than 62% 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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Mimecast Services Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	7.4%
2018	1	3.7%
2019	1	3.7%
2020	4	14.8%
2021	5	18.5%
2022	2	7.4%
2023	6	22.2%
2024	3	11.1%
2025partial year	3	11.1%

Which technologies does Mimecast Services Ltd. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 22

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 18

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 1

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 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

Top 5 of 5 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

Mimecast Services Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Mimecast Services Ltd.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 81.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #11,350 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Mimecast Services Ltd. against McMaster-Carr Supply Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 39.4/100 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

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