Where does Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP ranks #3,118 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 Consumer Products LP hold?

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP holds 121 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2020, spanning 55 technology areas.

What is Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP's Innovation Score?

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP has an Innovation Score of 55.6 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP's recent grant velocity is -99% 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 Consumer Products LP's patents?

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP's patents average 23.4 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 Consumer Products LP 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 Consumer Products LP

Q: What technology areas does Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP focus on?

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP's top technology area is 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) with 59 patents, ranking #8 of 361 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 55 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 121 granted patents across 55 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: 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 Otherw).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Georgia-pacific ranks #3,118 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 121 patents across 55 technology areas.

#3,118
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.6/100): 23.4
avg claims per patent: -99%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3118 · US Corporation #3,118 · 121 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 121 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,118/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Elago
CPC-WIDE D21H · 55 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.6/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 23.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -99% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Elago Co. Ltd (±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 55.6 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 16.6 pts (30%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 25.0 pts (45%) Claim depth 14.0 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Andersen · near

56
Georgia-Pacific… · this assignee

56
Livsmed · near

56
S&C Electric · near

56
Total Research &… · near

56
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Georgia-pacific's Innovation Score is 55.6/100 (top 7% 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 23.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.1 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.

How Georgia-pacific's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP received 1 grants versus 120 in 2015–2019 (-99% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 55 grants and bottomed in 2020 at 1. Lead class D21H accounts for 48.8% of the portfolio across 55 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Elago Co. Ltd (#3,114) and Landscape Forms, Inc. (#3,122).

Elago

121
Fuji Machine MFG

121
Faraday Technology

121
Ferring B V

121
Glaxosmithkline

121
Hefei BOE Display…

121
Institute of Auto…

121
Landscape Forms

121
Georgia-pacific C… ◀

121

What this shows Georgia-Pacific holds 121 patents at rank #3,118, 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 #3,118 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D21H (Pulp Compositions)

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 D21H (Pulp Compositions), Georgia-Pacific ranks #8 of 361 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (56 here).

S&C Electric Company 56 Andersen Corporation 56 Total Research & Technology Feluy 56 Livsmed Inc. 56

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (23.4 here).

Kla-tencor Corporation 23.4 avg Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt EN Zaadhandel B.V. 23.4 avg Thoratec Corporation 23.4 avg Insightec Ltd. 23.4 avg

Georgia-pacific's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

56 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	23	19.0%
2016	55	45.5%
2017	42	34.7%
2020	1	0.8%

Which technologies does Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP patent most?

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 59

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 40

D21F - Paper-making MACHINES; Methods OF Producing Paper Thereon 23

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 22

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 21

A47L - Domestic Washing OR Cleaning ; Suction Cleaners IN General 21

A47K - Sanitary Equipment NOT Otherwise Provided FOR ; Toilet Accessories 20

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 16

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 10

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 8

D21G - CALENDERS; Accessories FOR Paper-making Machines 7

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 6

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 6

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 5

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 4

Top 15 of 55 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 Consumer Products LP's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP's lead technology class is 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 Otherw), 48.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D21H
Ranked #3,118 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP against Elago Co. Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.6/100 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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