Where does The Smead Manufacturing Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Smead Manufacturing Company ranks #9,902 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 Smead Manufacturing Company hold?

The Smead Manufacturing Company holds 32 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 11 technology areas.

What is The Smead Manufacturing Company's Innovation Score?

The Smead Manufacturing Company has an Innovation Score of 27.7 out of 100 (25th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does The Smead Manufacturing Company focus on?

The Smead Manufacturing Company's top technology area is B42F (Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing) with 21 patents, ranking #3 of 35 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 11 CPC subclasses total.

Is The Smead Manufacturing Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Smead Manufacturing Company's recent grant velocity is -92% 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 Smead Manufacturing Company's patents?

The Smead Manufacturing Company's patents average 6.5 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 Smead Manufacturing 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 Smead Manufacturing Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 32 granted patents across 11 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: B42F (Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #9,902 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 32 patents across 11 technology areas.

#9,902
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 25th percentile
by Innovation Score (27.7/100): 6.5
avg claims per patent: -92%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R9902 · US Corporation #9,902 · 32 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 32 grants
UPPER-Q #9,902/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Telepathy Labs
CPC-FOCUS B42F · 11 areas
INNOV-THIN 27.7/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 6.5 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -92% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Telepathy Labs, Inc. (±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 27.7 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 12.1 pts (44%) Velocity 0.0 pts (0%) Breadth 11.7 pts (42%) Claim depth 3.9 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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A M Surgical · near

28
VMR Products · near

28
Chubby Gorilla · near

28
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28
3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows The's Innovation Score is 27.7/100 (25th 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 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 6.5 claims/patent is at or below the 13.1 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 Smead Manufacturing Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 11 CPC subclasses with 65.6% of grants classified under B42F (Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (9 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2019. By volume, The sits between Telepathy Labs, Inc. and TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc..

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What this shows The holds 32 patents at rank #9,903, 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 #9,903 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B42F (Sheets Temporarily Attached Together)

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 B42F (Sheets Temporarily Attached Together), The ranks #3 of 35 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (28 here).

Chubby Gorilla, Inc. 28 14th Round Inc. 28 VMR Products LLC 28 A.M. Surgical, Inc. 28

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

28 25th percentile higher than 25% 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 Smead Manufacturing Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	18.8%
2016	9	28.1%
2017	4	12.5%
2018	6	18.8%
2019	1	3.1%
2020	2	6.3%
2025partial year	4	12.5%

Which technologies does The Smead Manufacturing Company patent most?

B42F - Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing 21

B31B - Making Containers OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper 6

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

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

A47F - Special Furniture, Fittings, OR Accessories FOR Shops, Storehouses, Bars, Restaurants OR THE LIKE; Paying Counters 2

A47B - TABLES; DESKS; Office FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; General Details OF Furniture 2

B42C - Bookbinding 2

B31D - Making Articles OF Paper, Cardboard OR Material Worked IN A Manner Analogous TO Paper, NOT Provided FOR IN Subclasses B31b OR B31c 2

B05D - Processes FOR Applying Fluent Materials TO Surfaces, IN General 1

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 1

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

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The Smead Manufacturing Company's lead technology class is B42F (Sheets Temporarily Attached TOGETHER; Filing APPLIANCES; File CARDS; Indexing), 65.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B42F
Ranked #9,902 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Smead Manufacturing Company against Telepathy Labs, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 27.7/100 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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