Where does SOCIÉTÉ BIC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SOCIÉTÉ BIC ranks #3,984 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 SOCIÉTÉ BIC hold?

SOCIÉTÉ BIC holds 91 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 47 technology areas.

What is SOCIÉTÉ BIC's Innovation Score?

SOCIÉTÉ BIC has an Innovation Score of 70.4 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%).

What technology areas does SOCIÉTÉ BIC focus on?

SOCIÉTÉ BIC's top technology area is B43K (Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing) with 58 patents, ranking #2 of 82 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 47 CPC subclasses total.

Is SOCIÉTÉ BIC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SOCIÉTÉ BIC's recent grant velocity is +491% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for SOCIÉTÉ BIC's patents?

SOCIÉTÉ BIC's patents average 17.5 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 SOCIÉTÉ BIC 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

SOCIÉTÉ BIC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 91 granted patents across 47 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: B43K (Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Société ranks #3,984 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 91 patents across 47 technology areas.

#3,984
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (70.4/100): 17.5
avg claims per patent: +491%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3984 · Foreign Corporation #3,984 · 91 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 91 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,984/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH National University…
CPC-WIDE B43K · 47 areas
INNOV-STRONG 70.4/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +491% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: National University Corporation Kagawa University (±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 Société’s 70.4 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 15.6 pts (22%) Velocity 20.0 pts (28%) Breadth 24.2 pts (34%) Claim depth 10.5 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Archer Aviation · near

70
SOCIÉTÉ BIC · this assignee

70
GD Midea Air-conditi… · near

70
Adobe · near

70
Magna Mirrors of… · near

70
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Société's Innovation Score is 70.4/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Société?

Each dot is one of Société’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). Société’s own 17.5 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Société's grants concentrate

SOCIÉTÉ BIC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 47 CPC subclasses with 63.7% of grants classified under B43K (Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (33 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Société sits between NIO Nextev Limited and Saint Louis University.

Société's three-year grant acceleration

SOCIÉTÉ BIC shows 61 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

NIO Nextev

91
North China Elect…

91
National Universi…

91
Patent Investment…

91
Suzhou Opple Ligh…

91
Synventive Moldin…

91
Sage Therapeutics

91
Saint Louis Unive…

91
SOCIÉTÉ BIC ◀

91

What this shows SOCIÉTÉ holds 91 patents at rank #3,981, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SOCIÉTÉ

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,981 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B43K (Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SOCIÉTÉ, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B43K (Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing), SOCIÉTÉ ranks #2 of 82 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (70 here).

Archer Aviation Inc. 70 GD Midea Air-conditioning Equipment Co., Ltd. 70 Magna Mirrors of America, Inc. 70 Adobe Inc. 70

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.5 here).

Draka Comteq B.V. 17.5 avg Dürr Systems AG 17.5 avg HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd. 17.5 avg Philips Image Guided Therapy Corporation 17.5 avg

Société'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 · 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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SOCIÉTÉ BIC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	1.1%
2016	3	3.3%
2017	3	3.3%
2018	3	3.3%
2019	1	1.1%
2020	1	1.1%
2021	3	3.3%
2022	7	7.7%
2023	21	23.1%
2024	33	36.3%
2025partial year	15	16.5%

Which technologies does SOCIÉTÉ BIC patent most?

B43K - Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing 58

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 18

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 17

B43L - Articles FOR Writing OR Drawing UPON; ; Writing OR Drawing AIDS;; Accessories FOR Writing OR Drawing 11

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 10

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 7

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 5

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 4

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 4

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 3

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 3

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

Top 15 of 47 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

SOCIÉTÉ BIC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SOCIÉTÉ BIC's lead technology class is B43K (Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing), 63.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B43K
Ranked #3,984 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SOCIÉTÉ BIC against NIO Nextev Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 70.4/100 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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