Where does TecPharma Licensing AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), TecPharma Licensing AG ranks #6,289 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 TecPharma Licensing AG hold?

TecPharma Licensing AG holds 54 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is TecPharma Licensing AG's Innovation Score?

TecPharma Licensing AG has an Innovation Score of 34.5 out of 100 (48th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is TecPharma Licensing AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

TecPharma Licensing AG's recent grant velocity is -80% 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 TecPharma Licensing AG's patents?

TecPharma Licensing AG's patents average 17.7 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 TecPharma Licensing AG 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

TecPharma Licensing AG

Q: What technology areas does TecPharma Licensing AG focus on?

TecPharma Licensing AG's top technology area is A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor) with 54 patents, ranking #133 of 3,490 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 54 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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: A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Tecpharma ranks #6,289 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 54 patents across 8 technology areas.

#6,289
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 48th percentile
by Innovation Score (34.5/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6289 · Foreign Corporation #6,289 · 54 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 54 grants
UPPER-Q #6,289/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Takara Bio USA
CPC-NARROW A61M · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 34.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Takara Bio USA, 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 Tecpharma’s 34.5 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 13.8 pts (40%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 10.0 pts (29%) Claim depth 10.6 pts (31%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kompan A/S · near

34
Laboratorios DEL DR… · near

34
Oculeve · near

34
Sequent Medical · near

34
TecPharma Licensing · this assignee

34
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Tecpharma's Innovation Score is 34.5/100 (48th percentile 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 Tecpharma?

Each dot is one of Tecpharma’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). Tecpharma’s own 17.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Tecpharma's grants concentrate

TecPharma Licensing AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (16 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2016. By volume, Tecpharma sits between TLV Co., Ltd. and Thor Tech, Inc..

TLV

54
Toho Titanium

54
Tripwire

54
Takara Bio USA

54
Technology Partne…

54
Tekni-plex

54
The Secretary of…

54
Thor Tech

54
Tecpharma Licensi… ◀

54

What this shows TecPharma holds 54 patents at rank #6,291, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near TecPharma

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,291 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for TecPharma, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into), TecPharma ranks #133 of 3,490 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (34 here).

Laboratorios DEL DR. Esteve S.A. 34 Oculeve, Inc. 34 Sequent Medical, Inc. 34 Kompan A/S 34

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (17.7 here).

Tornier 17.7 avg Edwards Lifesciences CardiAQ LLC 17.7 avg Spine Wave, Inc. 17.7 avg KHS GmbH 17.7 avg

Tecpharma's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 48th percentile higher than 48% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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TecPharma Licensing AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	10	18.5%
2016	5	9.3%
2017	5	9.3%
2018	9	16.7%
2019	16	29.6%
2020	9	16.7%

Which technologies does TecPharma Licensing AG patent most?

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 54

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 2

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

Top 8 of 8 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

TecPharma Licensing AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

TecPharma Licensing AG's lead technology class is A61M (Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61M
Ranked #6,289 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare TecPharma Licensing AG against TLV Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 34.5/100 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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