Where does THE Pilot INK Company, Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), THE Pilot INK Company, Limited ranks #12,707 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 THE Pilot INK Company, Limited hold?

THE Pilot INK Company, Limited holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 21 technology areas.

What is THE Pilot INK Company, Limited's Innovation Score?

THE Pilot INK Company, Limited has an Innovation Score of 42.6 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is THE Pilot INK Company, Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

THE Pilot INK Company, Limited's recent grant velocity is -40% 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 THE Pilot INK Company, Limited's patents?

THE Pilot INK Company, Limited's patents average 12.1 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 THE Pilot INK Company, Limited 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

THE Pilot INK Company, Limited

Q: What technology areas does THE Pilot INK Company, Limited focus on?

THE Pilot INK Company, Limited'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 17 patents, ranking #189 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 21 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 21 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2024. 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, THE ranks #12,707 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 21 technology areas.

#12,707
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.6/100): 12.1
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12707 · Foreign Corporation #12,707 · 24 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,707/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Syros Pharmaceuticals
CPC-FOCUS C09D · 21 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.1 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Syros Pharmaceuticals, 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 THE’s 42.6 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 (26%) Velocity 8.0 pts (19%) Breadth 16.2 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.3 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
THE Pilot INK · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows THE's Innovation Score is 42.6/100 (top 30% 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 THE?

Each dot is one of THE’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). THE’s own 12.1 claims/patent is at or below the 14.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where THE's grants concentrate

THE Pilot INK Company, Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 21 CPC subclasses with 70.8% 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). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, THE sits between Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and TMGCore, Inc..

THE's three-year grant acceleration

THE Pilot INK Company, Limited shows 6 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.

Syros Pharmaceuti…

24
Tejas Research &…

24
Teledyne Flir Det…

24
Tf-metal

24
THE Proctor & Gam…

24
Thinxxs Microtech…

24
Thompson Surgical…

24
Tmgcore

24
THE Pilot INK ◀

24

What this shows THE holds 24 patents at rank #12,700, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near THE

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,700 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

THE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2024

Grants by year

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

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THE Pilot INK Company, Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	4	16.7%
2016	3	12.5%
2017	3	12.5%
2018	3	12.5%
2019	2	8.3%
2021	3	12.5%
2022	1	4.2%
2023	1	4.2%
2024	4	16.7%

Which technologies does THE Pilot INK Company, Limited 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 17

B43K - Implements FOR Writing OR Drawing 12

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 8

C09B - Organic Dyes OR Closely-related Compounds FOR Producing Dyes ; , e.g. PIGMENTS; MORDANTS; Lakes 6

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 6

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 3

B43L - Articles FOR Writing OR Drawing UPON; ; Writing OR Drawing AIDS;; Accessories FOR Writing OR Drawing 3

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 3

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 2

D06P - Dyeing OR Printing TEXTILES; Dyeing Leather, Furs OR Solid Macromolecular Substances IN ANY Form 1

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

D06Q - Decorating Textiles 1

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

Top 15 of 21 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

THE Pilot INK Company, Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

THE Pilot INK Company, Limited'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), 70.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #12,707 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare THE Pilot INK Company, Limited against Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.6/100 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.

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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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