Where does Valspar Sourcing, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Valspar Sourcing, Inc. ranks #4,269 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 Valspar Sourcing, Inc. hold?

Valspar Sourcing, Inc. holds 84 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Valspar Sourcing, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Valspar Sourcing, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.9 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Valspar Sourcing, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Valspar Sourcing, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -89% 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 Valspar Sourcing, Inc.'s patents?

Valspar Sourcing, Inc.'s patents average 21.5 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.

How is the Valspar Sourcing, Inc. 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

Valspar Sourcing, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Valspar Sourcing, Inc. focus on?

Valspar Sourcing, Inc.'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 69 patents. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 84 granted patents across 45 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2020. 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, Valspar ranks #4,269 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 84 patents across 45 technology areas.

#4,269
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.9/100): 21.5
avg claims per patent: -89%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4269 · US Corporation #4,269 · 84 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 84 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,269/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Seville Classics
CPC-WIDE C09D · 45 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.9/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -89% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Seville Classics 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aeronext · near

52
Musc Foundation for… · near

52
Pi Tech Innovations · near

52
Polar Electro Oy · near

52
Valspar Sourcing · this assignee

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Valspar's Innovation Score is 51.9/100 (top 11% 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 Valspar's grants concentrate

Valspar Sourcing, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 82.1% 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 2015 (32 grants) versus a trough of 4 in 2018. By volume, Valspar sits between Seville Classics Inc. and Acumed LLC.

Seville Classics

84
Tower Partners Se…

84
TP Lab

84
The Alfred E Mann…

84
Xiamen Tianma Dis…

84
Zhuhai Pantum

84
Valspar Sourcing ◀

84
Arteris

83
Acumed

83

What this shows Valspar holds 84 patents at rank #4,269, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Valspar

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,269 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C09D (Coating Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

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

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Musc Foundation for Research Development 52 Polar Electro Oy 52 Aeronext Inc. 52 Pi Tech Innovations LLC 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.5 here).

AVX Corporation 21.5 avg ConforMIS, Inc. 21.5 avg Uhnder, Inc. 21.5 avg The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security 21.4 avg

Valspar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2020

Grants by year

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

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Valspar Sourcing, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	32	38.1%
2016	24	28.6%
2017	16	19.0%
2018	4	4.8%
2020	8	9.5%

Which technologies does Valspar Sourcing, Inc. 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 69

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 40

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 30

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 29

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 26

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 21

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 16

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 15

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 15

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 6

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 6

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 5

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 5

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 4

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 4

Top 15 of 45 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#4,269

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

51.9 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

Valspar Sourcing, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Valspar Sourcing, Inc.'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), 82.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C09D
Ranked #4,269 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Valspar Sourcing, Inc. against Seville Classics Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.9/100 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

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