Where does Sicpa Holding SA rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sicpa Holding SA ranks #1,725 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 Sicpa Holding SA hold?

Sicpa Holding SA holds 237 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 94 technology areas.

What is Sicpa Holding SA's Innovation Score?

Sicpa Holding SA has an Innovation Score of 58.4 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sicpa Holding SA's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sicpa Holding SA's recent grant velocity is -16% 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 Sicpa Holding SA's patents?

Sicpa Holding SA's patents average 17.4 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 Sicpa Holding SA 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

Sicpa Holding SA

Q: What technology areas does Sicpa Holding SA focus on?

Sicpa Holding SA's top technology area is B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus) with 92 patents, ranking #3 of 253 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 94 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 237 granted patents across 94 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Sicpa ranks #1,725 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 237 patents across 94 technology areas.

#1,725
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (58.4/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: -16%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1725 · Foreign Corporation #1,725 · 237 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 237 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,725/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH AVL List
CPC-WIDE B42D · 94 areas
INNOV-PAR 58.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -16% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: AVL List GMBH (±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 Sicpa’s 58.4 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 18.9 pts (32%) Velocity 4.1 pts (7%) Breadth 25.0 pts (43%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Framatome · near

58
Moog · near

58
Nikkiso · near

58
Sicpa Holding · this assignee

58
Ushio Denki · near

58
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sicpa's Innovation Score is 58.4/100 (top 4% 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 Sicpa?

Each dot is one of Sicpa’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). Sicpa’s own 17.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Sicpa's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Sicpa Holding SA received 101 grants versus 120 in 2015–2019 (-16% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2017 at 30 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 10. Lead class B42D accounts for 38.8% of the portfolio across 94 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Triple WIN TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) Co. Ltd. (#1,720) and AAC Microtech (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. (#1,728).

Sicpa's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Sicpa Holding SA moved from 80 to 49 grants (0.61x 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 #2,415. See the growth leaderboard.

Triple WIN Techno…

238
AVL List

237
Faraday & Future

237
Hitachi Maxell

237
Sartorius Stedim…

237
Tsubakimoto Chain

237
University of Lou…

237
Sicpa Holding ◀

237
AAC Microtech (Ch…

236

What this shows Sicpa holds 237 patents at rank #1,724, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sicpa

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,724 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B42D (Books)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Sicpa, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B42D (Books), Sicpa ranks #3 of 253 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (58 here).

Nikkiso Co., Ltd. 58 Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha 58 Moog Inc. 58 Framatome 58

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.4 here).

Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC 17.4 avg Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 17.4 avg Shanghai Bilibili Technology Co., Ltd. 17.4 avg Teleflex Life Sciences LLC 17.4 avg

Sicpa's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

58 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Sicpa Holding SA patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	25	10.5%
2016	21	8.9%
2017	30	12.7%
2018	16	6.8%
2019	28	11.8%
2020	29	12.2%
2021	23	9.7%
2022	10	4.2%
2023	19	8.0%
2024	20	8.4%
2025partial year	16	6.8%

Which technologies does Sicpa Holding SA patent most?

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 92

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 69

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 48

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 42

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 41

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 40

G07D - Handling OF Coins OR Valuable Papers, e.g. Testing, Sorting BY Denominations, Counting, Dispensing, Changing OR Depositing 35

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 32

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 22

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 19

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 18

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 17

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 15

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 14

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 13

Top 15 of 94 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

Sicpa Holding SA's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sicpa Holding SA's lead technology class is B42D (BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith A), 38.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B42D
Ranked #1,725 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sicpa Holding SA against Triple WIN TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) Co. Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 58.4/100 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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