Where does THE Glad Products Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), THE Glad Products Company ranks #2,465 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 THE Glad Products Company hold?

THE Glad Products Company holds 159 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 28 technology areas.

What is THE Glad Products Company's Innovation Score?

THE Glad Products Company has an Innovation Score of 49.6 out of 100 (top 14% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is THE Glad Products Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

THE Glad Products Company's recent grant velocity is -41% 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 THE Glad Products Company's patents?

THE Glad Products Company's patents average 12.3 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 THE Glad Products Company 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

THE Glad Products Company

Q: What technology areas does THE Glad Products Company focus on?

THE Glad Products Company'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 82 patents, ranking #25 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 28 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 159 granted patents across 28 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, THE ranks #2,465 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 159 patents across 28 technology areas.

#2,465
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 14%
by Innovation Score (49.6/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: -41%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2465 · US Corporation #2,465 · 159 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 159 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,465/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Nippon Light Metal
CPC-FOCUS B65D · 28 areas
INNOV-PAR 49.6/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -41% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Nippon Light Metal Company, 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 THE’s 49.6 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 17.5 pts (35%) Velocity 6.0 pts (12%) Breadth 18.7 pts (38%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
ScienBiziP Consultin… · near

50
Changshu Institute… · near

50
Powerhouse Engine… · near

50
THE Glad Products · this assignee

50
Universite DE Montreal · near

50
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows THE's Innovation Score is 49.6/100 (top 14% 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 THE?

Each dot is one of THE’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). THE’s own 12.3 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.

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

Where THE's grants concentrate

THE Glad Products Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 28 CPC subclasses with 51.6% 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 2018 (27 grants) versus a trough of 8 in 2021. By volume, THE sits between Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd. and Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd..

THE's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, THE Glad Products Company moved from 38 to 34 grants (0.90x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,494. See the growth leaderboard.

Nippon Light Metal

159
Shenzhen Xpectvis…

159
Sonicwall

159
Simmonds Precisio…

159
Touchtunes Music

159
UDC Ireland

159
Yahoo Ad Tech

159
THE Glad Products ◀

159
Akebono Brake Ind…

158

What this shows THE holds 159 patents at rank #2,465, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near THE

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,465 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for THE, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B65D (Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials), THE ranks #25 of 3,365 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (50 here).

Universite DE Montreal 50 Powerhouse Engine Solutions Switzerland IP Holding GmbH 50 Changshu Institute of Technology 50 ScienBiziP Consulting(Shenzhen)Co., Ltd. 50

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.3 here).

Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche S.P.A. 12.3 avg B. Braun Avitum AG 12.3 avg The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy 12.3 avg AAC Optics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. 12.3 avg

THE's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

50 Top 14% higher than 86% 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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THE Glad Products Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	21	13.2%
2016	22	13.8%
2017	12	7.5%
2018	27	17.0%
2019	15	9.4%
2020	15	9.4%
2021	8	5.0%
2022	8	5.0%
2023	9	5.7%
2024	17	10.7%
2025partial year	5	3.1%

Which technologies does THE Glad Products Company 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 82

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 63

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 49

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 45

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 44

B65F - Gathering OR Removal OF Domestic OR Like Refuse 37

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 26

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 19

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 15

B31F - Mechanical Working OR Deformation OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 15

B30B - Presses IN General 8

C08J - WORKING-UP; General Processes OF COMPOUNDING; After-treatment NOT Covered BY Subclasses C08b, C08c, C08f, C08g or C08h 7

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 5

Y02W - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Wastewater Treatment OR Waste Management 4

Y02A - Technologies FOR Adaptation TO Climate Change 4

Top 15 of 28 technology areas

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Data Source

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What to do with this data

THE Glad Products Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

THE Glad Products Company'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), 51.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #2,465 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare THE Glad Products Company against Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 49.6/100 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

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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

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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