Where does Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC ranks #11,059 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 Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC hold?

Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC holds 28 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2016, spanning 15 technology areas.

What is Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC's Innovation Score?

Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC has an Innovation Score of 36.1 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC's recent grant velocity is -100% 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 Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC's patents?

Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC's patents average 18.0 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 Rock-Tenn Shared Services, 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

Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC

Q: What technology areas does Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC focus on?

Rock-Tenn Shared Services, 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 24 patents, ranking #136 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 15 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 28 granted patents across 15 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2016. 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, Rock-tenn ranks #11,059 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 28 patents across 15 technology areas.

#11,059
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.1/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent: -100%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R11059 · US Corporation #11,059 · 28 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 28 grants
UPPER-Q #11,059/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ResMed Paris SAS
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 15 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -100% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ResMed Paris SAS (±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 Rock-tenn’s 36.1 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 11.6 pts (32%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 13.7 pts (38%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (30%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Kolcraft Enterprises · near

36
Qurio Holdings · near

36
Rock-Tenn Shared… · this assignee

36
Ty-Flot · near

36
Ameriforge Group · near

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Rock-tenn's Innovation Score is 36.1/100 (top 47% 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 Rock-tenn?

Each dot is one of Rock-tenn’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). Rock-tenn’s own 18.0 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.

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

Where Rock-tenn's grants concentrate

Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 15 CPC subclasses with 85.7% 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 2015 (27 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Rock-tenn sits between ResMed Paris SAS and Sapproro Medical University.

Resmed Paris SAS

28
Revotek

28
Rivada Research

28
Rock River Arms

28
Roka Sports

28
Rosetta Genomics

28
Sango

28
Sapproro Medical…

28
Rock-tenn Shared… ◀

28

What this shows Rock-Tenn holds 28 patents at rank #11,057, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rock-Tenn

By rank, the assignees closest to #11,057 in granted patent volume.

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

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Rock-Tenn's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rock-Tenn, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Rock-Tenn ranks #136 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (36 here).

Qurio Holdings, Inc. 36 Ty-Flot, Inc. 36 Ameriforge Group Inc. 36 Kolcraft Enterprises, Inc. 36

Rock-tenn's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 47% higher than 53% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2016

Grants by year

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

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Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	27	96.4%
2016	1	3.6%

Which technologies does Rock-Tenn Shared Services, 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 24

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 13

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 2

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 2

G07G - Registering THE Receipt OF Cash, Valuables, OR Tokens 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 1

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 1

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 1

B01F - Mixing, e.g. Dissolving, Emulsifying OR Dispersing 1

A61L - Methods OR Apparatus FOR Sterilising Materials OR Objects IN GENERAL; Disinfection, Sterilisation OR Deodorisation OF AIR; Chemical Aspects OF Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical ARTICLES; Materials FOR Bandages, Dressings, Absorbent Pads OR Surgical Articles 1

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 1

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 15 of 15 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

Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rock-Tenn Shared Services, 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), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #11,059 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rock-Tenn Shared Services, LLC against ResMed Paris SAS, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.1/100 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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