Where does Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc. ranks #34,783 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 Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc. hold?

Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc. holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2021, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 31.5 out of 100 (38th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -60% 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 Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc.'s patents?

Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc.'s patents average 17.7 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 Clopay Plastic Products Company, 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

Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc. focus on?

Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc.'s top technology area is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form) with 5 patents. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2021. 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: B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Clopay ranks #34,783 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 15 technology areas.

#34,783
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 38th percentile
by Innovation Score (31.5/100): 17.7
avg claims per patent: -60%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R34783 · US Corporation #34,783 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
MID-PACK #34,783/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Clearwater Seafoods…
CPC-FOCUS B32B · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 31.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -60% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Clearwater Seafoods Limited Partnership (±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
Clopay Plastic… · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Clopay's Innovation Score is 31.5/100 (38th percentile 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 Clopay's grants concentrate

Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 71.4% of grants classified under B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Clopay sits between Clearwater Seafoods Limited Partnership and Club Pro Manufacturing USA, Inc..

Clearwater Seafoo…

7
Climax Foods

7
Climax Portable M…

7
Clopay Building P…

7
Cloud Packaging S…

7
Cloudshield

7
Cloverleaf Media

7
Club Pro Manufact…

7
Clopay Plastic Pr… ◀

7

What this shows Clopay holds 7 patents at rank #34,844, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Clopay

By rank, the assignees closest to #34,844 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B32B (Layered Products)

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

Clopay's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 38th percentile higher than 38% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2021

Grants by year

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

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Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	3	42.9%
2017	2	28.6%
2020	1	14.3%
2021	1	14.3%

Which technologies does Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc. patent most?

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 5

A61F - Filters Implantable Into Blood VESSELS; PROSTHESES; Devices Providing Patency TO, OR Preventing Collapsing OF, Tubular Structures OF THE Body, e.g. STENTS; Orthopaedic, Nursing OR Contraceptive DEVICES; FOMENTATION; Treatment OR Protection OF Eyes OR EARS; Bandages, Dressings OR Absorbent PADS; Firs 4

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 4

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

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 2

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

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 1

D04H - Making Textile Fabrics, e.g. From Fibres OR Filamentary Material ; Fabrics Made BY Such Processes OR Apparatus, e.g. Felts, Non-woven FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; Wadding ; ; Non-woven Fabrics From Staple Fibres, Filaments OR Yarns, Bonded With AT Least ONE Web-like Material During Their Consolidation 1

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

D01D - Mechanical Methods OR Apparatus IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR Ribbons 1

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 1

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 1

B44F - Special Designs OR Pictures 1

Top 15 of 15 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#34,783

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

31.5 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

Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc.'s lead technology class is B32B (Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form), 71.4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B32B
Ranked #34,783 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Clopay Plastic Products Company, Inc. against Clearwater Seafoods Limited Partnership, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 31.5/100 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.

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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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