Where does Unilin Bvba rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Unilin Bvba ranks #6,722 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 Unilin Bvba hold?

Unilin Bvba holds 50 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Unilin Bvba's Innovation Score?

Unilin Bvba has an Innovation Score of 40.7 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Unilin Bvba focus on?

Unilin Bvba's top technology area is E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors) with 31 patents, ranking #11 of 584 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

Is Unilin Bvba's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Unilin Bvba's recent grant velocity is -53% 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 Unilin Bvba's patents?

Unilin Bvba's patents average 15.3 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 Unilin Bvba 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

Unilin Bvba

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 50 granted patents across 25 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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: E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Unilin ranks #6,722 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 50 patents across 25 technology areas.

#6,722
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.7/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent: -53%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6722 · Foreign Corporation #6,722 · 50 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 50 grants
UPPER-Q #6,722/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Tangible Play
CPC-FOCUS E04F · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -53% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Tangible Play, 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 Unilin’s 40.7 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 13.6 pts (33%) Velocity 0.3 pts (1%) Breadth 17.7 pts (43%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Evonik Industries · near

41
Neupharma · near

41
Unilin Bvba · this assignee

41
GDM S P A · near

41
Pelco · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Unilin's Innovation Score is 40.7/100 (top 35% 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 Unilin?

Each dot is one of Unilin’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). Unilin’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Unilin's grants concentrate

Unilin Bvba is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 62% of grants classified under E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Unilin sits between Tangible Play, Inc. and Wenzhou University.

Unilin's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Unilin Bvba moved from 26 to 1 grants (0.04x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Tangible Play

50
The Strategic Coa…

50
Thermochem Recove…

50
US Government AS…

50
Valmet

50
W C Bradley

50
Withings

50
Wenzhou University

50
Unilin Bvba ◀

50

What this shows Unilin holds 50 patents at rank #6,721, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Unilin

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,721 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Unilin, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings), Unilin ranks #11 of 584 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Neupharma, Inc 41 Evonik Industries AG 41 Pelco, Inc. 41 GDM S.P.A. 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.3 here).

Vale S.A. 15.3 avg Kautex Textron GmbH & Co. KG 15.3 avg IMEC 15.3 avg Lisa Draexlmaier GmbH 15.3 avg

Unilin's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Unilin Bvba patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.0%
2016	2	4.0%
2017	10	20.0%
2018	10	20.0%
2019	11	22.0%
2020	15	30.0%
2022	1	2.0%

Which technologies does Unilin Bvba patent most?

E04F - Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors 31

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 28

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 23

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 20

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 17

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 15

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 14

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 14

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 9

B27M - Working OF Wood NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B27b - B27L; Manufacture OF Specific Wooden Articles 7

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 7

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 7

B27N - Manufacture BY DRY Processes OF Articles, With OR Without Organic Binding Agents, Made From Particles OR Fibres Consisting OF Wood OR Other Lignocellulosic OR Like Organic Material 6

D06N - Wall, Floor, OR Like Covering Materials, e.g. Linoleum, Oilcloth, Artificial Leather, Roofing Felt, Consisting OF A Fibrous WEB Coated With A Layer OF Macromolecular MATERIAL; Flexible Sheet Material NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 6

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 3

Top 15 of 25 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

Unilin Bvba's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Unilin Bvba's lead technology class is E04F (Finishing Work ON Buildings, e.g. Stairs, Floors), 62% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore E04F
Ranked #6,722 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Unilin Bvba against Tangible Play, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.7/100 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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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