Company Analysis

Sonoco Products Company (SON)

NYSE: SON · Paperboard Containers & Boxes · Hartsville, SC · filing with the SEC since 1994
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Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

187 patents granted to the name below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Sonoco Products Company’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
187
163 utility, 21 design, 3 reissue, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
1
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
1
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
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Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name1 counted
Sonoco Products Company its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
187 granted
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Nov 19, 2002D465,732Dispensing containerSonoco Products Company
May 21, 20026,391,135Methods and apparatus for manufacturing tubular containersOther special machinesSonoco Products Company
Jan 29, 20026,341,720Tri-closure dispensing topHandlingSonoco Products Company
Nov 20, 2001D450,586Dispensing cap for a containerSonoco Products Company
Nov 20, 2001D450,584Three closure dispensing cap for a containerSonoco Products Company
Aug 21, 2001D446,722Three closure dispensing cap for a containerSonoco Products Company
Mar 6, 20016,196,408Release strip for tubular containers and methods and apparatus of applying sameTextile and paper machinesSonoco Products Company
May 9, 20006,059,104Corner support postHandlingSonoco Products Company
Mar 16, 19995,881,898Open top drum having ribbed chimeHandlingSonoco Products Company
Mar 16, 19995,881,882Plastic bag pack adapted to leave no residue on a supporting rackHandlingSonoco Products Company
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Dec 22, 20052005/0279472Recycled white ticket stock and method of making sameTextile and paper machinesSonoco Products Company

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

SI Assistanton SON · research, not advice