Where does Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. ranks #23,553 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 Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. hold?

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. holds 12 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Toppan Forms Co., Ltd.'s Innovation Score?

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. has an Innovation Score of 30.8 out of 100 (35th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Toppan Forms Co., Ltd.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd.'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 Toppan Forms Co., Ltd.'s patents?

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd.'s patents average 10.8 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 Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. 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

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd.

Q: What technology areas does Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. focus on?

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd.'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 4 patents, ranking #596 of 1,818 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 12 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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, Toppan ranks #23,553 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 12 patents across 19 technology areas.

#23,553
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 35th percentile
by Innovation Score (30.8/100): 10.8
avg claims per patent: -80%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R23553 · Foreign Corporation #23,553 · 12 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 12 grants
MID-PACK #23,553/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH TI Automotive…
CPC-FOCUS C09D · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 30.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -80% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: TI Automotive (HEIDELBERG) GMBH (±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 Toppan’s 30.8 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 8.9 pts (29%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 15.4 pts (50%) Claim depth 6.5 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Toppan Forms · this assignee

31
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Toppan's Innovation Score is 30.8/100 (35th 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 Toppan?

Each dot is one of Toppan’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). Toppan’s own 10.8 claims/patent is at or below the 12.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Toppan's grants concentrate

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 33.3% 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 2018 (4 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Toppan sits between TI Automotive (HEIDELBERG) GMBH and TP Vision Holding B.V..

TI Automotive (He…

12
TMD Friction Serv…

12
Tomi Environmenta…

12
Tomoe Engineering

12
Touch Biometrix

12
Tower Ipco

12
Tozo

12
TP Vision Holding…

12
Toppan Forms ◀

12

What this shows Toppan holds 12 patents at rank #23,512, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Toppan

By rank, the assignees closest to #23,512 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Toppan's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

31 35th percentile higher than 35% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	16.7%
2017	2	16.7%
2018	4	33.3%
2019	2	16.7%
2020	1	8.3%
2021	1	8.3%

Which technologies does Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. 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 4

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 3

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 2

H01Q - Antennas, i.e. Radio Aerials 2

H04B - Transmission 2

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 2

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

H10K - Organic Electric Solid-state Devices 1

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 1

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 1

H04Q - Selecting 1

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 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 19 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

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd.'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), 33.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #23,553 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. against TI Automotive (HEIDELBERG) GMBH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 30.8/100 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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