Where does Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC ranks #4,082 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 Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC hold?

Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC holds 88 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2021, spanning 45 technology areas.

What is Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC's Innovation Score?

Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC has an Innovation Score of 51.8 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%).

What technology areas does Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC focus on?

Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC's top technology area is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds) with 45 patents, ranking #116 of 2,352 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 45 CPC subclasses total.

Is Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC's recent grant velocity is -95% 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 Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC's patents?

Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC's patents average 21.0 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 Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC 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

Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 88 granted patents across 45 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2021. 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: C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Georgia-pacific ranks #4,082 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 88 patents across 45 technology areas.

#4,082
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.8/100): 21.0
avg claims per patent: -95%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4082 · US Corporation #4,082 · 88 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 88 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,082/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Derrick
CPC-WIDE C08L · 45 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.8/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -95% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Derrick Corporation (±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 Georgia-pacific’s 51.8 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 15.5 pts (30%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 23.7 pts (46%) Claim depth 12.6 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Akzo Nobel Chemicals… · near

52
First Quality Tissue · near

52
Georgia-Pacific… · this assignee

52
FLSmidth A/S · near

52
Simpson Strong-Tie · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Georgia-pacific's Innovation Score is 51.8/100 (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 Georgia-pacific?

Each dot is one of Georgia-pacific’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). Georgia-pacific’s own 21.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Georgia-pacific's grants concentrate

Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 45 CPC subclasses with 51.1% of grants classified under C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (25 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2021. By volume, Georgia-pacific sits between Dwango Co., Ltd. and Johnson Controls, Inc..

Dwango

88
Derrick

88
Fositek

88
Glycom A/S

88
Hollingsworth & V…

88
Institut National…

88
Ideastream Consum…

88
Johnson Controls

88
Georgia-pacific C… ◀

88

What this shows Georgia-Pacific holds 88 patents at rank #4,083, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Georgia-Pacific

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,083 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Georgia-Pacific's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Georgia-Pacific, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), Georgia-Pacific ranks #116 of 2,352 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

First Quality Tissue, LLC 52 Akzo Nobel Chemicals International B.V 52 FLSmidth A/S 52 Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (21.0 here).

AGC Glass Europe 21.0 avg ADC Telecommunications, Inc. 21.0 avg Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp. 21.0 avg Schul International Co., LLC 21.0 avg

Georgia-pacific'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 · 2015–2021

Grants by year

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

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Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	22	25.0%
2016	17	19.3%
2017	25	28.4%
2018	12	13.6%
2019	8	9.1%
2020	3	3.4%
2021	1	1.1%

Which technologies does Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC patent most?

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 45

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 29

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 28

B27N - Manufacture BY DRY Processes OF Articles, With OR Without Organic Binding Agents, Made From Particles OR Fibres Consisting OF Wood OR Other Lignocellulosic OR Like Organic Material 20

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 19

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 15

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 14

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 12

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 10

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 10

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 9

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 9

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

B01J - Chemical OR Physical Processes, e.g. Catalysis OR Colloid CHEMISTRY; Their Relevant Apparatus 6

B03D - FLOTATION; Differential Sedimentation 6

Top 15 of 45 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

Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC's lead technology class is C08L (Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds), 51.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore C08L
Ranked #4,082 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC against Dwango Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.8/100 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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