Where does THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research ranks #8,695 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

Is THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research's recent grant velocity is -17% 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 Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research's patents?

THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research's patents average 15.5 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research

Q: How many patents does THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research hold?

THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research holds 37 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

Q: What is THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research's Innovation Score?

THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research has an Innovation Score of 42.7 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%).

Q: What technology areas does THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research focus on?

THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research's top technology area is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations) with 32 patents. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research 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 PatentsView assignee record - 37 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. 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: A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, THE ranks #8,695 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 37 patents across 19 technology areas.

#8,695
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.7/100): 15.5
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8695 · Foreign Corporation #8,695 · 37 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 37 grants
UPPER-Q #8,695/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Taizhou Sukk Furniture
CPC-FOCUS A61P · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Taizhou Sukk Furniture Co., Ltd (±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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Board of Supervisors… · near

43
Inductotherm · near

43
MD Healthcare · near

43
SAN Fang Chemical… · near

43
THE Walter AND… · this assignee

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows THE's Innovation Score is 42.7/100 (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.

Where THE's grants concentrate

THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 86.5% of grants classified under A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (8 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, THE sits between Taizhou Sukk Furniture Co., Ltd and Tris Pharma Inc.

THE's three-year grant acceleration

THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 11 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.

Taizhou Sukk Furn…

37
Tempur World

37
TGW Logistics

37
THE 13th Research…

37
Tokai Kogyo

37
Tokyo Rope MFG

37
Tornier SAS

37
Tris Pharma

37
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37

What this shows THE holds 37 patents at rank #8,691, 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 #8,691 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Me…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for THE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Inductotherm Corp. 43 Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University 43 MD Healthcare Inc. 43 SAN Fang Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. 43

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 · 2015–2025

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 Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	21.6%
2017	2	5.4%
2018	3	8.1%
2019	5	13.5%
2020	1	2.7%
2021	5	13.5%
2022	5	13.5%
2023	3	8.1%
2024	1	2.7%
2025partial year	4	10.8%

Which technologies does THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research patent most?

A61P - Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations 32

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 31

C07K - Peptides 22

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 18

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 17

C12N - Microorganisms OR ENZYMES; Compositions THEREOF; Propagating, Preserving, OR Maintaining MICROORGANISMS; Mutation OR Genetic ENGINEERING; Culture Media 16

C07D - Heterocyclic Compounds 9

C12Q - Measuring OR Testing Processes Involving Enzymes, Nucleic Acids OR Microorganisms ; Compositions OR Test Papers THEREFOR; Processes OF Preparing Such COMPOSITIONS; Condition-responsive Control IN Microbiological OR Enzymological Processes 5

C12G - WINE; Preparation THEREOF; Alcoholic Beverages ; Preparation OF Alcoholic Beverages NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses C12c OR C12h 3

A01H - NEW Plants OR ; NON-TRANSGENIC; Processes FOR Obtaining THEM; Plant Reproduction BY Tissue Culture Techniques 3

C12H - Pasteurisation, Sterilisation, Preservation, Purification, Clarification OR Ageing OF Alcoholic BEVERAGES; Methods FOR Altering THE Alcohol Content OF Fermented Solutions OR Alcoholic Beverages 3

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 3

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 3

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 3

C12C - BEER; Preparation OF Beer BY Fermentation ; Preparation OF Malt FOR Making BEER; Preparation OF Hops FOR Making Beer 3

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#8,695

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

42.7 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research's lead technology class is A61P (Specific Therapeutic Activity OF Chemical Compounds OR Medicinal Preparations), 86.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A61P
Ranked #8,695 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare THE Walter AND Eliza Hall Institute OF Medical Research against Taizhou Sukk Furniture Co., Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.7/100 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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