Where does Shopify Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Shopify Inc. ranks #1,445 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 Shopify Inc. hold?

Shopify Inc. holds 289 US utility patents granted between 2020 and 2025, spanning 26 technology areas.

What is Shopify Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Shopify Inc. has an Innovation Score of 69.6 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Shopify Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Shopify Inc..

What does claim depth mean for Shopify Inc.'s patents?

Shopify Inc.'s patents average 19.9 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 Shopify Inc. 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

Shopify Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Shopify Inc. focus on?

Shopify Inc.'s top technology area is 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) with 185 patents. Grants appear in 26 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 289 granted patents across 26 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2020–2025. 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Shopify ranks #1,445 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 289 patents across 26 technology areas.

#1,445
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.6/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1445 · Foreign Corporation #1,445 · 289 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MID 289 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,445/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cheng UEI Precision…
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 26 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2020–2025 · 6y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Adeia Semiconductor… · near

70
Shopify · this assignee

70
Dana Automotive… · near

70
Ricoh · near

70
Universite Paris-sac… · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Shopify's Innovation Score is 69.6/100 (top 1% 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.

Where Shopify's grants concentrate

Shopify Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 26 CPC subclasses with 64% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (73 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2020. By volume, Shopify sits between Square Enix Co., Ltd. and Milliken & Company.

Shopify's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Shopify Inc. moved from 31 to 197 grants (6.36x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #21. See the growth leaderboard.

Square Enix

290
Verb Surgical

290
Cheng UEI Precisi…

289
Everspin

289
Seescan

289
Shopify ◀

289
Ajou University I…

288
Julius Blum

288
Milliken &

288

What this shows Shopify holds 289 patents at rank #1,444, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Shopify

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,444 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Shopify, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC 70 Adeia Semiconductor Bonding Technologies Inc. 70 Ricoh Company, Ltd. 70 Universite Paris-saclay 70

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.9 here).

Open Text Corporation 19.9 avg A10 Networks, Incorporated 19.9 avg Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd. 19.9 avg Macrogenics, Inc. 19.9 avg

Shopify's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

70 Top 1% higher than 99% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2020–2025

Grants by year

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

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Shopify Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2020	7	2.4%
2021	24	8.3%
2022	56	19.4%
2023	68	23.5%
2024	73	25.3%
2025partial year	61	21.1%

Which technologies does Shopify Inc. patent most?

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 185

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 155

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 66

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 54

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 32

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 28

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 17

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 8

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 5

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 4

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 3

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

Top 15 of 26 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#1,445

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

69.6 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Shopify Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Shopify Inc.'s lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 64% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #1,445 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Shopify Inc. against Square Enix Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.6/100 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.