Where does Specialty Operations France rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Specialty Operations France ranks #12,677 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 Specialty Operations France hold?

Specialty Operations France holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2024 and 2025, spanning 32 technology areas.

What is Specialty Operations France's Innovation Score?

Specialty Operations France has an Innovation Score of 61.2 out of 100 (top 3% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Specialty Operations France's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Specialty Operations France.

What does claim depth mean for Specialty Operations France's patents?

Specialty Operations France's patents average 16.8 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 Specialty Operations France 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

Specialty Operations France

Q: What technology areas does Specialty Operations France focus on?

Specialty Operations France's top technology area is 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) with 8 patents, ranking #349 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 32 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 32 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2024–2025. 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: 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 Materi).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Specialty ranks #12,677 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 32 technology areas.

#12,677
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 3%
by Innovation Score (61.2/100): 16.8
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12677 · Foreign Corporation #12,677 · 24 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,677/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SNF Group
CPC-FOCUS C09D · 32 areas
INNOV-STRONG 61.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2024–2025 · 2y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SNF Group (±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 Specialty’s 61.2 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 11.1 pts (18%) Velocity 20.0 pts (33%) Breadth 20.0 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.1 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Specialty Operations… · this assignee

61
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Specialty's Innovation Score is 61.2/100 (top 3% 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 Specialty?

Each dot is one of Specialty’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). Specialty’s own 16.8 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.

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

Where Specialty's grants concentrate

Specialty Operations France is a focused PatentsView assignee: 32 CPC subclasses with 33.3% of grants classified under 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 Materi). By volume, Specialty sits between SNF Group and Steeper Energy APS.

Specialty's three-year grant acceleration

Specialty Operations France shows 14 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

SNF Group

24
Somar

24
Sookmyung Women's…

24
Span Tech

24
Spinner

24
Spire Global

24
Star Mesh

24
Steeper Energy APS

24
Specialty Operati… ◀

24

What this shows Specialty holds 24 patents at rank #12,666, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Specialty

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,666 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Specialty's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

61 Top 3% higher than 97% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2024–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2024–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Specialty Operations France patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2024	14	58.3%
2025partial year	10	41.7%

Which technologies does Specialty Operations France patent most?

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 8

A01N - Preservation OF Bodies OF Humans OR Animals OR Plants OR Parts Thereof ; Biocides, e.g. AS Disinfectants, AS Pesticides OR AS Herbicides ; Pest Repellants OR ATTRACTANTS; Plant Growth Regulators 7

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 6

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 5

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 5

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 4

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 3

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 3

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 3

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 3

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

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 2

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 2

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 2

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 2

Top 15 of 32 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

Specialty Operations France's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Specialty Operations France's lead technology class is 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 Materi), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #12,677 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Specialty Operations France against SNF Group, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 61.2/100 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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