Where does UPM Raflatac OY rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), UPM Raflatac OY ranks #7,211 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 UPM Raflatac OY hold?

UPM Raflatac OY holds 46 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is UPM Raflatac OY's Innovation Score?

UPM Raflatac OY has an Innovation Score of 47.9 out of 100 (top 18% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is UPM Raflatac OY's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

UPM Raflatac OY's recent grant velocity is +33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for UPM Raflatac OY's patents?

UPM Raflatac OY's patents average 16.7 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 UPM Raflatac OY 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

UPM Raflatac OY

Q: What technology areas does UPM Raflatac OY focus on?

UPM Raflatac OY's top technology area is G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals) with 30 patents. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 46 granted patents across 35 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: G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, UPM ranks #7,211 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 46 patents across 35 technology areas.

#7,211
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 18%
by Innovation Score (47.9/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R7211 · Foreign Corporation #7,211 · 46 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 46 grants
UPPER-Q #7,211/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH UMC Utrecht Holding…
CPC-FOCUS G09F · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 47.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: UMC Utrecht Holding B.V. (±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
Belvac Production… · near

48
Brose Fahrzeugteile… · near

48
CG Oncology · near

48
Mapi Pharma · near

48
UPM Raflatac OY · this assignee

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows UPM's Innovation Score is 47.9/100 (top 18% 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 UPM's grants concentrate

UPM Raflatac OY is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 65.2% of grants classified under G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, UPM sits between UMC Utrecht Holding B.V. and Vision Works IP Corporation.

UPM's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, UPM Raflatac OY moved from 20 to 11 grants (0.55x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

UMC Utrecht Holdi…

46
Unity Opto Techno…

46
University Colleg…

46
UniversitÉ Libre…

46
Unigen

46
Vanrx Pharmasyste…

46
Vishay Dale

46
Vision Works IP

46
UPM Raflatac OY ◀

46

What this shows UPM holds 46 patents at rank #7,209, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near UPM

By rank, the assignees closest to #7,209 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G09F (Displaying)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Hallstadt 48 Belvac Production Machinery, Inc. 48 Mapi Pharma Ltd. 48 CG Oncology, Inc. 48

UPM's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 18% higher than 82% 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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UPM Raflatac OY patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.3%
2016	2	4.3%
2017	6	13.0%
2018	1	2.2%
2019	7	15.2%
2020	4	8.7%
2021	9	19.6%
2022	7	15.2%
2023	4	8.7%
2025partial year	4	8.7%

Which technologies does UPM Raflatac OY patent most?

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 30

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 22

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 19

B65C - Labelling OR Tagging Machines, Apparatus, OR Processes 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 6

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 6

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 5

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 5

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 5

B31D - Making Articles OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper, NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B31b OR B31c 5

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 5

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 4

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 4

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 4

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 3

Top 15 of 35 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#7,211

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

47.9 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

UPM Raflatac OY's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

UPM Raflatac OY's lead technology class is G09F (DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals), 65.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G09F
Ranked #7,211 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare UPM Raflatac OY against UMC Utrecht Holding B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 47.9/100 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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