Where does Intercontinental Great Brands LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Intercontinental Great Brands LLC ranks #1,780 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 Intercontinental Great Brands LLC hold?

Intercontinental Great Brands LLC holds 229 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 50 technology areas.

What is Intercontinental Great Brands LLC's Innovation Score?

Intercontinental Great Brands LLC has an Innovation Score of 56.7 out of 100 (top 6% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Intercontinental Great Brands LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Intercontinental Great Brands LLC's recent grant velocity is -15% 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 Intercontinental Great Brands LLC's patents?

Intercontinental Great Brands LLC's patents average 12.1 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 Intercontinental Great Brands 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

Intercontinental Great Brands LLC

Q: What technology areas does Intercontinental Great Brands LLC focus on?

Intercontinental Great Brands LLC'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 59 patents, ranking #36 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 50 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 229 granted patents across 50 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, Intercontinental ranks #1,780 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 229 patents across 50 technology areas.

#1,780
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 6%
by Innovation Score (56.7/100): 12.1
avg claims per patent: -15%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1780 · US Corporation #1,780 · 229 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 229 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,780/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH British American…
CPC-WIDE B65D · 50 areas
INNOV-PAR 56.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.1 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -15% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited (±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 Intercontinental’s 56.7 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 18.8 pts (33%) Velocity 5.6 pts (10%) Breadth 25.0 pts (44%) Claim depth 7.3 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hach · near

57
Universite De… · near

57
Intercontinental… · this assignee

57
1ahead · near

57
SEB · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Intercontinental's Innovation Score is 56.7/100 (top 6% 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 Intercontinental?

Each dot is one of Intercontinental’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). Intercontinental’s own 12.1 claims/patent is at or below the 14.0 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Intercontinental's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Intercontinental Great Brands LLC received 100 grants versus 117 in 2015–2019 (-15% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 37 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 12. Lead class B65D accounts for 25.8% of the portfolio across 50 subclasses. Volume neighbours: British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited (#1,776) and tesa SE (#1,784).

Intercontinental's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Intercontinental Great Brands LLC moved from 65 to 55 grants (0.85x 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 #1,670. See the growth leaderboard.

British American…

229
Dai-ichi Seiko

229
Global Graphene G…

229
Hirose Electric

229
Siemens Industry…

229
Sorbonne Universi…

229
Universite De Mon…

229
tesa SE

229
Intercontinental… ◀

229

What this shows Intercontinental holds 229 patents at rank #1,780, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Intercontinental

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,780 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Intercontinental, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Intercontinental ranks #36 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

SEB S.A. 57 1ahead Technologies 57 Universite De Montpellier 57 Hach Company 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.1 here).

Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft MBH 12.1 avg ONO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. 12.1 avg Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. 12.1 avg Nanolumens Acquisition, Inc. 12.1 avg

Intercontinental's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 6% higher than 94% 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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Intercontinental Great Brands LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	37	16.2%
2016	27	11.8%
2017	19	8.3%
2018	14	6.1%
2019	20	8.7%
2020	22	9.6%
2021	23	10.0%
2022	24	10.5%
2023	19	8.3%
2024	12	5.2%
2025partial year	12	5.2%

Which technologies does Intercontinental Great Brands LLC 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 59

A23G - COCOA; Cocoa Products, e.g. CHOCOLATE; Substitutes FOR Cocoa OR Cocoa PRODUCTS; CONFECTIONERY; Chewing GUM; ICE-CREAM; Preparation Thereof 37

A23L - Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Preparation OR Treatment Thereof 30

A23V - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic Beverages AND Lactic OR Propionic Acid Bacteria Used IN Foodstuffs OR Food Preparation 29

A21D - Treatment OF Flour OR Dough FOR Baking, e.g. BY Addition OF MATERIALS; BAKING; Bakery Products 20

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 18

A23P - Shaping OR Working OF Foodstuffs, NOT Fully Covered BY A Single Other Subclass 14

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 11

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 11

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 11

A23C - Dairy Products, e.g. Milk, Butter OR CHEESE; Milk OR Cheese SUBSTITUTES; Making OR Treatment Thereof 10

A21C - Machines OR Equipment FOR Making OR Processing DOUGHS; Handling Baked Articles Made From Dough 8

A61K - Preparations FOR Medical, Dental OR Toiletry Purposes 7

A23F - COFFEE; TEA; Their SUBSTITUTES; Manufacture, Preparation, OR Infusion Thereof 6

C09J - ADHESIVES; Non-mechanical Aspects OF Adhesive Processes IN GENERAL; Adhesive Processes NOT Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; USE OF Materials AS Adhesives 4

Top 15 of 50 technology areas

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USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Intercontinental Great Brands LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Intercontinental Great Brands LLC'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), 25.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #1,780 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Intercontinental Great Brands LLC against British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 56.7/100 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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