Where does Sappi Netherlands Services B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Sappi Netherlands Services B.V. ranks #33,155 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 Sappi Netherlands Services B.V. hold?

Sappi Netherlands Services B.V. holds 8 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 13 technology areas.

What is Sappi Netherlands Services B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Sappi Netherlands Services B.V. has an Innovation Score of 33.3 out of 100 (44th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Sappi Netherlands Services B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Sappi Netherlands Services B.V.'s recent grant velocity is -40% 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 Sappi Netherlands Services B.V.'s patents?

Sappi Netherlands Services B.V.'s patents average 16.0 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 Sappi Netherlands Services B.V. 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

Sappi Netherlands Services B.V.

Q: What technology areas does Sappi Netherlands Services B.V. focus on?

Sappi Netherlands Services B.V.'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 5 patents, ranking #78 of 361 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 13 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 8 granted patents across 13 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. 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, Sappi ranks #33,155 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 8 patents across 13 technology areas.

#33,155
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 44th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.3/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R33155 · Foreign Corporation #33,155 · 8 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 8 grants
MID-PACK #33,155/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH San-apro
CPC-FOCUS D21H · 13 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.3/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: San-apro 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 Sappi’s 33.3 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 7.6 pts (23%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 12.7 pts (38%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sappi Netherlands… · this assignee

33
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Sappi's Innovation Score is 33.3/100 (44th 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 Sappi?

Each dot is one of Sappi’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). Sappi’s own 16.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 10.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Sappi's grants concentrate

Sappi Netherlands Services B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 13 CPC subclasses with 62.5% of grants classified under 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). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (3 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Sappi sits between San-apro Ltd. and Savid Therapeutics Inc..

Sappi's three-year grant acceleration

Sappi Netherlands Services B.V. shows 1 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

San-apro

8
Sanden Retail Sys…

8
Sanofi Pasteur Va…

8
Sanyo Foods

8
SAS

8
Satmap Internatio…

8
Savari

8
Savid Therapeutics

8
Sappi Netherlands… ◀

8

What this shows Sappi holds 8 patents at rank #33,131, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Sappi

By rank, the assignees closest to #33,131 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D21H (Pulp Compositions)

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

Sappi's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

33 44th percentile higher than 44% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

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

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Sappi Netherlands Services B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	37.5%
2016	2	25.0%
2020	1	12.5%
2021	1	12.5%
2022	1	12.5%

Which technologies does Sappi Netherlands Services B.V. 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 5

D01D - Mechanical Methods OR Apparatus IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR Ribbons 4

D01F - Chemical Features IN THE Manufacture OF Artificial Filaments, Threads, Fibres, Bristles OR RIBBONS; Apparatus Specially Adapted FOR THE Manufacture OF Carbon Filaments 4

D21C - Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor 4

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 2

C08B - POLYSACCHARIDES; Derivatives Thereof 2

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 1

B82Y - Specific Uses OR Applications OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Measurement OR Analysis OF NANOSTRUCTURES; Manufacture OR Treatment OF Nanostructures 1

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 1

B01D - Separation 1

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 1

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 1

B29B - Preparation OR Pretreatment OF THE Material TO BE SHAPED; Making Granules OR PREFORMS; Recovery OF Plastics OR Other Constituents OF Waste Material Containing Plastics 1

Top 13 of 13 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

Sappi Netherlands Services B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Sappi Netherlands Services B.V.'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), 62.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D21H
Ranked #33,155 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Sappi Netherlands Services B.V. against San-apro Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.3/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.