Where does Metsä Board Oyj rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Metsä Board Oyj ranks #48,709 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 Metsä Board Oyj hold?

Metsä Board Oyj holds 5 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Metsä Board Oyj's Innovation Score?

Metsä Board Oyj has an Innovation Score of 29.6 out of 100 (31st percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Metsä Board Oyj's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Metsä Board Oyj's recent grant velocity is -75% 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 Metsä Board Oyj's patents?

Metsä Board Oyj's patents average 16.2 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 Metsä Board Oyj 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 Foreign Corporation

Metsä Board Oyj

Q: What technology areas does Metsä Board Oyj focus on?

Metsä Board Oyj'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 3 patents, ranking #1,165 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 5 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2024. 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, Metsä ranks #48,709 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 5 patents across 4 technology areas.

#48,709
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 31st percentile
by Innovation Score (29.6/100): 16.2
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R48709 · Foreign Corporation #48,709 · 5 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · BOTTOM-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 5 grants
BOTTOM-DECILE #48,709/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Metall + Plastic
CPC-NARROW B65D · 4 areas
INNOV-THIN 29.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Metall + Plastic GmbH (±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 Metsä’s 29.6 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 6.2 pts (21%) Velocity 6.7 pts (23%) Breadth 7.1 pts (24%) Claim depth 9.7 pts (33%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ortoma AB · near

30
LDA · near

30
Metsä Board Oyj · this assignee

30
Atos Medical AB · near

30
Kashiv BioSciences · near

30
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Metsä's Innovation Score is 29.6/100 (31st 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.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Metsä?

Each dot is one of Metsä’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). Metsä’s own 16.2 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.

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

Where Metsä's grants concentrate

Metsä Board Oyj is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 60% 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 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Metsä sits between Metall + Plastic GmbH and Michael Hill Franchise Pty Limited.

Metsä's three-year grant acceleration

Metsä Board Oyj shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 1 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Metall + Plastic

5
Metirionic

5
Metselex

5
Metso Finland Oy

5
Metzner Holding

5
Mewt

5
Mitac Research (S…

5
Michael Hill Fran…

5
Metsä Board Oyj ◀

5

What this shows Metsä holds 5 patents at rank #48,842, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Metsä

By rank, the assignees closest to #48,842 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Metsä, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Metsä ranks #1,165 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (30 here).

LDA Technologies Ltd. 30 Kashiv BioSciences, LLC 30 Atos Medical AB 30 Ortoma AB 30

Metsä's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

30 31st percentile higher than 31% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Metsä Board Oyj patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	2	40.0%
2018	1	20.0%
2019	1	20.0%
2024	1	20.0%

Which technologies does Metsä Board Oyj 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 3

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 2

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 2

D21C - Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor 1

Top 4 of 4 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

Metsä Board Oyj's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Metsä Board Oyj'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), 60% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #48,709 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Metsä Board Oyj against Metall + Plastic GmbH, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 29.6/100 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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