Where does Berry Plastics Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Berry Plastics Corporation ranks #2,264 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 Berry Plastics Corporation hold?

Berry Plastics Corporation holds 173 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 35 technology areas.

What is Berry Plastics Corporation's Innovation Score?

Berry Plastics Corporation has an Innovation Score of 52.1 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 Berry Plastics Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Berry Plastics Corporation's recent grant velocity is -41% 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 Berry Plastics Corporation's patents?

Berry Plastics Corporation's patents average 18.6 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 Berry Plastics Corporation 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

Berry Plastics Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Berry Plastics Corporation focus on?

Berry Plastics Corporation's top technology area is 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) with 130 patents, ranking #10 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 35 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 173 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: 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 F).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Berry ranks #2,264 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 173 patents across 35 technology areas.

#2,264
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (52.1/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: -41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2264 · US Corporation #2,264 · 173 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 173 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,264/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Bard Access Systems
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 35 areas
INNOV-PAR 52.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Bard Access Systems, 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 Berry’s 52.1 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 17.8 pts (34%) Velocity 2.2 pts (4%) Breadth 20.9 pts (40%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Berry Plastics · this assignee

52
Digital Seat Media · near

52
Haemonetics · near

52
Koninklijke Philips · near

52
Matrixed Reality… · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Berry's Innovation Score is 52.1/100 (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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Berry?

Each dot is one of Berry’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). Berry’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Berry's grants concentrate

Berry Plastics Corporation is a focused PatentsView assignee: 35 CPC subclasses with 75.1% of grants classified under 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 F). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (28 grants) versus a trough of 6 in 2022. By volume, Berry sits between Yahoo Japan Corporation and Luxtera, Inc..

Berry's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Berry Plastics Corporation moved from 64 to 21 grants (0.33x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #2,966. See the growth leaderboard.

Yahoo Japan

174
Bard Access Syste…

173
Beckhoff Automati…

173
Bell Sports

173
Delaval Holding AB

173
Edwards

173
General Interface…

173
Luxtera

173
Berry Plastics ◀

173

What this shows Berry holds 173 patents at rank #2,264, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Berry

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,264 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Berry, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Berry ranks #10 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV 52 Haemonetics Corporation 52 Matrixed Reality Technology Co., Ltd. 52 Digital Seat Media, Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.6 here).

Baxalta Incorporated 18.6 avg Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. 18.6 avg Sigmasense, LLC. 18.6 avg Intematix Corporation 18.6 avg

Berry'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 · 2015–2025

Grants by year

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

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Berry Plastics Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	18	10.4%
2016	20	11.6%
2017	28	16.2%
2018	19	11.0%
2019	22	12.7%
2020	24	13.9%
2021	18	10.4%
2022	6	3.5%
2023	7	4.0%
2024	8	4.6%
2025partial year	3	1.7%

Which technologies does Berry Plastics Corporation patent most?

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 130

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 53

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 50

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 39

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 32

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 29

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 22

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 21

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 19

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 17

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 12

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 9

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 9

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 9

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 8

Top 15 of 35 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

Berry Plastics Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Berry Plastics Corporation's lead technology class is 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 F), 75.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #2,264 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Berry Plastics Corporation against Yahoo Japan Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 52.1/100 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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