Where does Natco Pharma Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Natco Pharma Limited ranks #10,109 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 Natco Pharma Limited hold?

Natco Pharma Limited holds 31 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Natco Pharma Limited's Innovation Score?

Natco Pharma Limited has an Innovation Score of 35.4 out of 100 (top 49% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Natco Pharma Limited focus on?

Natco Pharma Limited's top technology area is C07D (Heterocyclic Compounds) with 20 patents, ranking #448 of 3,165 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Natco Pharma Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Natco Pharma Limited's recent grant velocity is -6% 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 Natco Pharma Limited's patents?

Natco Pharma Limited's patents average 9.2 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 Natco Pharma Limited 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

Natco Pharma Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 31 granted patents across 14 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: C07D (Heterocyclic Compounds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Natco ranks #10,109 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 31 patents across 14 technology areas.

#10,109
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 49%
by Innovation Score (35.4/100): 9.2
avg claims per patent: -6%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R10109 · Foreign Corporation #10,109 · 31 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 31 grants
UPPER-Q #10,109/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Motion Pro
CPC-FOCUS C07D · 14 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.4/100
CLAIMS-PAR 9.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -6% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Motion Pro 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 Natco’s 35.4 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 12.0 pts (34%) Velocity 4.7 pts (13%) Breadth 13.2 pts (37%) Claim depth 5.5 pts (16%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Anacor Pharmaceuticals · near

35
Hitachi Information… · near

35
Natco Pharma · this assignee

35
Plasma-Therm · near

35
Quotient Technology · near

35
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Natco's Innovation Score is 35.4/100 (top 49% 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 Natco?

Each dot is one of Natco’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). Natco’s own 9.2 claims/patent is at or below the 10.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Natco's grants concentrate

Natco Pharma Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 64.5% of grants classified under C07D (Heterocyclic Compounds). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2017. By volume, Natco sits between Motion Pro Inc. and Nagasaki University.

Natco's three-year grant acceleration

Natco Pharma Limited shows 7 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.

Motion Pro

31
Movius Interactive

31
Mueller Sports Me…

31
Nano Dimension

31
Nissin Electric

31
Noble Internation…

31
Northgate

31
Nagasaki Universi…

31
Natco Pharma ◀

31

What this shows Natco holds 31 patents at rank #10,108, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Natco

By rank, the assignees closest to #10,108 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C07D (Heterocyclic Compounds)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Natco, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C07D (Heterocyclic Compounds), Natco ranks #448 of 3,165 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (35 here).

Plasma-Therm LLC 35 Quotient Technology Inc. 35 Hitachi Information AND Telecommunication Engineering, Ltd. 35 Anacor Pharmaceuticals, LLC 35

Natco's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

35 Top 49% higher than 51% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

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

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Natco Pharma Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	12.9%
2016	4	12.9%
2017	2	6.5%
2018	4	12.9%
2019	2	6.5%
2020	4	12.9%
2021	4	12.9%
2022	4	12.9%
2023	3	9.7%

Which technologies does Natco Pharma Limited patent most?

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 20

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 12

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 11

C07B - General Methods OF Organic CHEMISTRY; Apparatus Therefor 8

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 2

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 1

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 1

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 1

C07K - Peptides 1

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

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 1

C12P - Fermentation OR Enzyme-using Processes TO Synthesise A Desired Chemical Compound OR Composition OR TO Separate Optical Isomers From A Racemic Mixture 1

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 1

C12R - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses C12c - C12q, Relating TO Microorganisms 1

Top 14 of 14 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

Natco Pharma Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Natco Pharma Limited's lead technology class is C07D (Heterocyclic Compounds), 64.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C07D
Ranked #10,109 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Natco Pharma Limited against Motion Pro Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 35.4/100 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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