Where does Rubbermaid Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Rubbermaid Incorporated ranks #5,397 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 Rubbermaid Incorporated hold?

Rubbermaid Incorporated holds 64 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Rubbermaid Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Rubbermaid Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 41.2 out of 100 (top 34% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Rubbermaid Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Rubbermaid Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -24% 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 Rubbermaid Incorporated's patents?

Rubbermaid Incorporated's patents average 5.3 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 Rubbermaid Incorporated 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

Rubbermaid Incorporated

Q: What technology areas does Rubbermaid Incorporated focus on?

Rubbermaid Incorporated'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 11 patents, ranking #316 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 64 granted patents across 16 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, Rubbermaid ranks #5,397 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 64 patents across 16 technology areas.

#5,397
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 34%
by Innovation Score (41.2/100): 5.3
avg claims per patent: -24%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R5397 · US Corporation #5,397 · 64 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 64 grants
UPPER-Q #5,397/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Oxilio
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 41.2/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 5.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -24% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Oxilio 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 Rubbermaid’s 41.2 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 14.4 pts (35%) Velocity 9.4 pts (23%) Breadth 14.1 pts (34%) Claim depth 3.2 pts (8%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Dinkle Enterprise · near

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Rubbermaid's Innovation Score is 41.2/100 (top 34% 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 Rubbermaid?

Each dot is one of Rubbermaid’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). Rubbermaid’s own 5.3 claims/patent is at or below the 15.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Rubbermaid's grants concentrate

Rubbermaid Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 17.2% 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 (11 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Rubbermaid sits between Oxilio Ltd and Sakai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd..

Rubbermaid's three-year grant acceleration

Rubbermaid Incorporated shows 17 grants in 2022–2024 against only 12 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.

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64
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64
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64
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What this shows Rubbermaid holds 64 patents at rank #5,396, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Rubbermaid

By rank, the assignees closest to #5,396 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Rubbermaid, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), Rubbermaid ranks #316 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Mi-jack Products, Inc. 41 Power Management Holdings (U.S.), Inc. 41 Purplevine Innovation Company Limited 41 Dinkle Enterprise Co., Ltd. 41

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (5.3 here).

eMoMo Technology Co., Ltd. 5.3 avg Outbrain Inc. 5.3 avg Wenzhou University 5.3 avg Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc. 5.3 avg

Rubbermaid's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 34% higher than 66% 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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Rubbermaid Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	11	17.2%
2016	5	7.8%
2017	4	6.3%
2018	9	14.1%
2019	4	6.3%
2020	1	1.6%
2021	7	10.9%
2022	3	4.7%
2023	9	14.1%
2024	5	7.8%
2025partial year	6	9.4%

Which technologies does Rubbermaid Incorporated 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 11

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 4

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 3

B65F - Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse 3

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 2

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 2

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 2

B01D - Separation 2

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

C03B - Manufacture, Shaping, OR Supplementary Processes 1

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 1

B23K - Soldering OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; Cladding OR Plating BY Soldering OR WELDING; Cutting BY Applying Heat Locally, e.g. Flame CUTTING; Working BY Laser Beam 1

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 1

A23B - Preservation OF Foods, Foodstuffs OR Non-alcoholic BEVERAGES; Chemical Ripening OF Fruit OR Vegetables 1

Top 15 of 16 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

Rubbermaid Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Rubbermaid Incorporated'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), 17.2% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #5,397 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Rubbermaid Incorporated against Oxilio Ltd, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 41.2/100 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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