Where does The Upper Deck Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Upper Deck Company ranks #27,634 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 Upper Deck Company hold?

The Upper Deck Company holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2024, spanning 9 technology areas.

What is The Upper Deck Company's Innovation Score?

The Upper Deck Company has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

The Upper Deck Company's recent grant velocity is +50% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

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

The Upper Deck Company's patents average 17.4 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 Upper Deck 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 US Corporation

The Upper Deck Company

Q: What technology areas does The Upper Deck Company focus on?

The Upper Deck 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 5 patents, ranking #274 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 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: 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 #27,634 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 9 technology areas.

#27,634
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 17.4
avg claims per patent: +50%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27634 · US Corporation #27,634 · 10 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,634/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH The SottoPelle Group
CPC-NARROW A63F · 9 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +50% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: The SottoPelle Group, 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 32.0 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 (26%) Velocity 2.7 pts (8%) Breadth 10.6 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.4 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
The Upper Deck · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows The's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th 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 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 17.4 claims/patent is at or below the 17.4 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 Upper Deck Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 9 CPC subclasses with 50% 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 2021 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, The sits between The SottoPelle Group, LLC and Thermocompact.

The's three-year grant acceleration

The Upper Deck Company shows 2 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.

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What this shows The holds 10 patents at rank #27,656, 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 #27,656 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)

32 40th percentile higher than 40% 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 Upper Deck Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	20.0%
2018	1	10.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2020	1	10.0%
2021	3	30.0%
2023	1	10.0%
2024	1	10.0%

Which technologies does The Upper Deck Company patent most?

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 2

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

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 2

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 2

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 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 Upper Deck Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Upper Deck 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), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63F
Ranked #27,634 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Upper Deck Company against The SottoPelle Group, LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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

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