Where does SCA Forest Products AB rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), SCA Forest Products AB ranks #27,320 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 SCA Forest Products AB hold?

SCA Forest Products AB holds 10 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2023, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is SCA Forest Products AB's Innovation Score?

SCA Forest Products AB has an Innovation Score of 32.0 out of 100 (40th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is SCA Forest Products AB's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

SCA Forest Products AB's recent grant velocity is +0% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for SCA Forest Products AB's patents?

SCA Forest Products AB's patents average 14.4 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 SCA Forest Products AB 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

SCA Forest Products AB

Q: What technology areas does SCA Forest Products AB focus on?

SCA Forest Products AB'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 11 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 10 granted patents across 11 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2023. 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, SCA ranks #27,320 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 10 patents across 11 technology areas.

#27,320
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 40th percentile
by Innovation Score (32.0/100): 14.4
avg claims per patent: +0%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R27320 · Foreign Corporation #27,320 · 10 grants

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

GRANTS-MICRO 10 grants
MID-PACK #27,320/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sanovo Technology…
CPC-FOCUS D21H · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 32.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 14.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT +0% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sanovo Technology Netherlands B.V. (±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 SCA’s 32.0 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 8.3 pts (26%) Velocity 3.3 pts (10%) Breadth 11.7 pts (37%) Claim depth 8.6 pts (27%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Hortech · near

32
Liverpool School of… · near

32
Nittoh · near

32
P-two Industries · near

32
SCA Forest Products AB · this assignee

32
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows SCA's Innovation Score is 32.0/100 (40th 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 SCA?

Each dot is one of SCA’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). SCA’s own 14.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where SCA's grants concentrate

SCA Forest Products AB is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 50% 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 2018 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, SCA sits between Sanovo Technology Netherlands B.V. and Seaone Holdings, LLC.

SCA's three-year grant acceleration

SCA Forest Products AB shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 4 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.

Sanovo Technology…

10
Sasol Technology…

10
Sauter Feinmechan…

10
Sb-kawasumi Labor…

10
SCF Pharma

10
Schurter

10
Scribe Opco

10
Seaone Holdings

10
SCA Forest Produc… ◀

10

What this shows SCA holds 10 patents at rank #27,297, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near SCA

By rank, the assignees closest to #27,297 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in D21H (Pulp Compositions)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for SCA, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In D21H (Pulp Compositions), SCA ranks #78 of 361 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (32 here).

Hortech, Inc. 32 P-two Industries Inc. 32 Nittoh Inc. 32 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 32

SCA's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

32 40th percentile higher than 40% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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SCA Forest Products AB patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	10.0%
2017	1	10.0%
2018	2	20.0%
2019	1	10.0%
2020	1	10.0%
2021	2	20.0%
2023	2	20.0%

Which technologies does SCA Forest Products AB 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

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 4

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 3

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 2

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 2

D21C - Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor 2

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

C08H - Derivatives OF Natural Macromolecular Compounds 1

D21D - Treatment OF THE Materials Before Passing TO THE Paper-making Machine 1

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 1

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

Top 11 of 11 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

SCA Forest Products AB's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

SCA Forest Products AB'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), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore D21H
Ranked #27,320 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare SCA Forest Products AB against Sanovo Technology Netherlands B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 32.0/100 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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