Where does Weener Plastics Group B.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Weener Plastics Group B.V. ranks #38,293 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 Weener Plastics Group B.V. hold?

Weener Plastics Group B.V. holds 7 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Weener Plastics Group B.V.'s Innovation Score?

Weener Plastics Group B.V. has an Innovation Score of 45.9 out of 100 (top 22% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Weener Plastics Group B.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Weener Plastics Group B.V..

What does claim depth mean for Weener Plastics Group B.V.'s patents?

Weener Plastics Group B.V.'s patents average 18.0 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 Weener Plastics Group 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

Weener Plastics Group B.V.

Q: What technology areas does Weener Plastics Group B.V. focus on?

Weener Plastics Group B.V.'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 6 patents, ranking #606 of 3,365 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 7 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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, Weener ranks #38,293 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 7 patents across 5 technology areas.

#38,293
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 22%
by Innovation Score (45.9/100): 18.0
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R38293 · Foreign Corporation #38,293 · 7 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-MICRO 7 grants
LOWER-Q #38,293/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Waterbox OY
CPC-NARROW B65D · 5 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.0 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Waterbox OY (±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 Weener’s 45.9 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 7.2 pts (16%) Velocity 20.0 pts (44%) Breadth 7.9 pts (17%) Claim depth 10.8 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Weener Plastics… · this assignee

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Weener's Innovation Score is 45.9/100 (top 22% 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 Weener?

Each dot is one of Weener’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). Weener’s own 18.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Weener's grants concentrate

Weener Plastics Group B.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 85.7% 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 2023 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2022. By volume, Weener sits between Waterbox OY and Wellmark International.

Weener's three-year grant acceleration

Weener Plastics Group B.V. shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Waterbox OY

7
Waters Industries

7
Waterstone

7
Weatherford Nethe…

7
Weidmann Holding

7
Welbilt Deutschla…

7
Wellsim Biomedical

7
Wellmark Internat…

7
Weener Plastics G… ◀

7

What this shows Weener holds 7 patents at rank #38,297, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Weener

By rank, the assignees closest to #38,297 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Weener's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

46 Top 22% higher than 78% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Weener Plastics Group B.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	1	14.3%
2023	2	28.6%
2024	2	28.6%
2025partial year	2	28.6%

Which technologies does Weener Plastics Group B.V. 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 6

F16K - VALVES; TAPS; COCKS; ACTUATING-FLOATS; Devices FOR Venting OR Aerating 2

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

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

Top 5 of 5 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

Weener Plastics Group B.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Weener Plastics Group B.V.'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), 85.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B65D
Ranked #38,293 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Weener Plastics Group B.V. against Waterbox OY, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.9/100 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

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