Where does The Pokemon Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Pokemon Company ranks #27,626 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 Pokemon Company hold?

The Pokemon Company holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is The Pokemon Company's Innovation Score?

The Pokemon Company has an Innovation Score of 50.5 out of 100 (top 13% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Pokemon Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for The Pokemon Company.

What does claim depth mean for The Pokemon Company's patents?

The Pokemon Company's patents average 19.4 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 The Pokemon Company 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 Pokemon Company

Q: What technology areas does The Pokemon Company focus on?

The Pokemon Company's top technology area is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 8 patents, ranking #168 of 894 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 9 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 9 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #27,626 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 9 technology areas.

#27,626
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 13%
by Innovation Score (50.5/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27626 · Foreign Corporation #27,626 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,626/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The Marley
CPC-NARROW A63F · 9 areas
INNOV-PAR 50.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The Marley Company LLC (±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 50.5 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 8.3 pts (16%) Velocity 20.0 pts (40%) Breadth 10.6 pts (21%) Claim depth 11.6 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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What this shows The's Innovation Score is 50.5/100 (top 13% 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 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where The's grants concentrate

The Pokemon Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 80% of grants classified under A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, The sits between The M.K. Morse Company and The United States of America.

The's three-year grant acceleration

The Pokemon Company shows 8 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.

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What this shows The holds 10 patents at rank #27,650, 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 #27,650 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63F (Card)

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)

51 Top 13% higher than 87% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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The Pokemon Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	3	30.0%
2023	1	10.0%
2024	4	40.0%
2025partial year	2	20.0%

Which technologies does The Pokemon Company patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 3

A63J - Devices FOR Theatres, Circuses, OR THE LIKE; Conjuring Appliances OR THE Like 2

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 2

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 1

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 1

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 1

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 1

Top 9 of 9 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 Pokemon Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Pokemon Company's lead technology class is A63F (Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR), 80% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #27,626 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Pokemon Company against The M.K. Morse Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 50.5/100 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

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