Smurfit WestRock plc (SW)
NYSE: SW · Paperboard Containers & Boxes · Dublin 4 · filing with the SEC since 2024
Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 20261,640 patents granted to the 23 names 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 Smurfit WestRock plc’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
1,640
1,456 utility, 173 design, 10 reissue, 1 statutory invention registration, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
43
Against 57 in 2024 and 48 in 2023
Applications published
672
52 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
23
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Handling163
Textile and paper machines53
Furniture, games8
Surface technology, coating2
Digital communication1
Other consumer goods1
Audio-visual technology1
Computer technology1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name23 counted
The Mead Corporation a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in JP)
0 published
WestRock Shared Services, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
37 published
WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US. 2 more under the same name are not counted (printed in GA)
191 published
WestRock Shared Services, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
187 published
WestRock Packaging Systems, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
36 published
WestRock MWV, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
17 published
WestRock MWV, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
104 published
Multi Packaging Solutions, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
17 published
Multi Packaging Solutions UK Limited a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in GB
39 published
Multi Packaging Solutions, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
30 published
Multi Packaging Solutions UK Limited a subsidiary
GB, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
WESTROCK CONTAINER, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 published
Smurfit Carton y Papel de Mexico a subsidiary
MX, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Smurfit Kappa North America, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Smurfit Kappa North America LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
4 published
WESTROCK CONTAINER, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
3 published
Westrock CP LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 published
Field Boxmore GB Limited a subsidiary
GB, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
Victory Packaging, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
WestRock CP, LLC a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
2 published
MW Custom Papers, LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
0 published
SMURFIT KAPPA SERVICES LIMITED a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in IE
1 published
WestRock, Co. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
1 published
Names not counted (1)
Modern China Limited
Most of its patents print US; this name counts in VG. 1 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Handling 73 · Textile and paper machines 15 · Other consumer goods 4 · Audio-visual technology 3 · Surface technology, coating 3 · Machine tools 2.
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.