Where does Victrex Manufacturing Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Victrex Manufacturing Limited ranks #12,304 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 Victrex Manufacturing Limited hold?

Victrex Manufacturing Limited holds 25 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Victrex Manufacturing Limited's Innovation Score?

Victrex Manufacturing Limited has an Innovation Score of 38.6 out of 100 (top 40% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Victrex Manufacturing Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Victrex Manufacturing Limited'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 Victrex Manufacturing Limited's patents?

Victrex Manufacturing Limited's patents average 16.2 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 Victrex Manufacturing Limited 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

Victrex Manufacturing Limited

Q: What technology areas does Victrex Manufacturing Limited focus on?

Victrex Manufacturing Limited's top technology area is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds) with 18 patents, ranking #214 of 1,741 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 25 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Victrex ranks #12,304 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 25 patents across 19 technology areas.

#12,304
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 40%
by Innovation Score (38.6/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: -17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12304 · Foreign Corporation #12,304 · 25 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 25 grants
UPPER-Q #12,304/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Uster
CPC-FOCUS C08G · 19 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Uster Technologies AG (±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 Victrex’s 38.6 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 11.3 pts (29%) Velocity 2.2 pts (6%) Breadth 15.4 pts (40%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Affibody AB · near

39
Universal Robots A/S · near

39
Hamilton Medical · near

39
Holland · near

39
Victrex Manufacturing · this assignee

39
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Victrex's Innovation Score is 38.6/100 (top 40% 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 Victrex?

Each dot is one of Victrex’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). Victrex’s own 16.2 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Victrex's grants concentrate

Victrex Manufacturing Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 72% of grants classified under C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds). Peak complete grant year is 2019 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2017. By volume, Victrex sits between Uster Technologies AG and Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co. KG.

Victrex's three-year grant acceleration

Victrex Manufacturing Limited shows 4 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

Uster

25
Vanderbilt Chemic…

25
Ventec Life Syste…

25
Verisilicon Micro…

25
Vudu

25
Valio

25
Verity

25
Vetter Pharma-fer…

25
Victrex Manufactu… ◀

25

What this shows Victrex holds 25 patents at rank #12,297, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Victrex

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,297 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY React…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Victrex, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY React…), Victrex ranks #214 of 1,741 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (39 here).

Hamilton Medical AG 39 Holland Electronics , LLC 39 Affibody AB 39 Universal Robots A/S 39

Victrex's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

39 Top 40% higher than 60% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

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

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Victrex Manufacturing Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	8.0%
2017	1	4.0%
2018	3	12.0%
2019	6	24.0%
2020	3	12.0%
2021	3	12.0%
2022	1	4.0%
2024	3	12.0%
2025partial year	3	12.0%

Which technologies does Victrex Manufacturing Limited patent most?

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 18

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 15

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 12

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 8

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 7

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 5

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

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 4

F16L - PIPES; Joints OR Fittings FOR PIPES; Supports FOR Pipes, Cables OR Protective TUBING; Means FOR Thermal Insulation IN General 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

E21B - Earth OR Rock DRILLING; Obtaining OIL, GAS, Water, Soluble OR Meltable Materials OR A Slurry OF Minerals From Wells 2

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 1

F04B - Positive-displacement Machines FOR LIQUIDS; Pumps 1

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 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

Victrex Manufacturing Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Victrex Manufacturing Limited's lead technology class is C08G (Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds), 72% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08G
Ranked #12,304 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Victrex Manufacturing Limited against Uster Technologies AG, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.6/100 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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