Where does Scholle IPN IP BV rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Scholle IPN IP BV ranks #12,658 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 Scholle IPN IP BV hold?

Scholle IPN IP BV holds 24 US utility patents granted between 2018 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Scholle IPN IP BV's Innovation Score?

Scholle IPN IP BV has an Innovation Score of 38.1 out of 100 (top 42% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Scholle IPN IP BV's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Scholle IPN IP BV's recent grant velocity is +129% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Scholle IPN IP BV's patents?

Scholle IPN IP BV's patents average 15.8 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 Scholle IPN IP BV 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

Scholle IPN IP BV

Q: What technology areas does Scholle IPN IP BV focus on?

Scholle IPN IP BV'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 17 patents, ranking #191 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 24 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2018–2025. 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, Scholle ranks #12,658 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 24 patents across 18 technology areas.

#12,658
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 42%
by Innovation Score (38.1/100): 15.8
avg claims per patent: +129%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R12658 · Foreign Corporation #12,658 · 24 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 24 grants
MID-PACK #12,658/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sanofi Pasteur
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 18 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +129% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sanofi Pasteur SA (±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 Scholle’s 38.1 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 11.1 pts (29%) Velocity 2.6 pts (7%) Breadth 15.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.5 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Scholle IPN IP BV · this assignee

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Scholle's Innovation Score is 38.1/100 (top 42% 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 Scholle?

Each dot is one of Scholle’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). Scholle’s own 15.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Scholle's grants concentrate

Scholle IPN IP BV is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 70.8% 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 2021 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Scholle sits between Syddansk Universitet and Silcotek Corp..

Scholle's three-year grant acceleration

Scholle IPN IP BV shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 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.

Syddansk Universi…

24
System Ceramics S…

24
Sanofi Pasteur

24
Schawbel

24
Scientific Games

24
Se-kure Controls

24
Shanghai XPT Tech…

24
Silcotek

24
Scholle IPN IP BV ◀

24

What this shows Scholle holds 24 patents at rank #12,679, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Scholle

By rank, the assignees closest to #12,679 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Scholle's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 42% higher than 58% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2018–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2018–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Scholle IPN IP BV patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2018	5	20.8%
2019	2	8.3%
2020	5	20.8%
2021	6	25.0%
2023	1	4.2%
2024	4	16.7%
2025partial year	1	4.2%

Which technologies does Scholle IPN IP BV 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 17

B65B - Machines, Apparatus OR Devices FOR, OR Methods OF, Packaging Articles OR MATERIALS; Unpacking 8

B67D - Dispensing, Delivering OR Transferring Liquids, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

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 2

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 2

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 2

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 2

B25J - MANIPULATORS; Chambers Provided With Manipulation Devices 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 1

A63H - Toys, e.g. Tops, Dolls, Hoops OR Building Blocks 1

A61J - Containers Specially Adapted FOR Medical OR Pharmaceutical PURPOSES; Devices OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Bringing Pharmaceutical Products Into Particular Physical OR Administering FORMS; Devices FOR Administering Food OR Medicines ORALLY; Baby COMFORTERS; Devices FOR Receiving Spittle 1

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 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

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 1

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Scholle IPN IP BV's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Scholle IPN IP BV'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), 70.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #12,658 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Scholle IPN IP BV against Syddansk Universitet, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.1/100 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.

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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