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}\r\n }\r\n<\/style>\r\n<\/head>\r\n<body>\r\n<div class=\"wrap\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"hdr\">\r\n <div class=\"eyebrow\">Patent Landscape Report \u00b7 IIPRD Technology Intelligence Series<\/div>\r\n <h1>Del Monte Patent Landscape: A Comprehensive Intellectual Property & Food Technology Innovation Analysis<\/h1>\r\n <p class=\"hdr-sub\">An in-depth analysis of 333 patent documents spanning over a century of food science, agricultural biotechnology, plant variety innovation, and packaging engineering \u2014 mapping Del Monte's global IP portfolio across 15+ jurisdictions and 6 decades of continuous inventive activity.<\/p>\r\n <div class=\"tags\">\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Patent Landscape<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Intellectual Property<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">IP Portfolio<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Technology Innovation<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Patent Analytics<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Prior Art<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Patent Family<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Food Technology IP<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Agri-Biotech Patents<\/span>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"stats\">\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">333<\/div><div class=\"l\">Total Patent Documents<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">189<\/div><div class=\"l\">Patent Families<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">8.1%<\/div><div class=\"l\">Granted Patents<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">15+<\/div><div class=\"l\">Filing Jurisdictions<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">1916<\/div><div class=\"l\">Earliest Priority Year<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">37<\/div><div class=\"l\">Alive Patents<\/div><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"exec\">\r\n <h2>Executive Summary: Del Monte Patent Portfolio \u2014 A Century of Food Science & Agricultural Innovation<\/h2>\r\n <p>Del Monte \u2014 one of the world's most iconic food and agricultural brands, with operations spanning canned fruits and vegetables, fresh produce, plant biotechnology, pet food, and food service \u2014 has assembled an intellectual property portfolio that reflects more than a century of continuous innovation across the agri-food value chain. This patent landscape report, prepared by IIPRD as an exemplary technology intelligence analysis, examines a corpus of <strong>333 patent documents<\/strong> organized across 189 distinct patent families, with priority filings traceable to 1916 \u2014 spanning the arc from early food preservation chemistry through modern plant genomics and smart packaging engineering.<\/p>\r\n <p>The Del Monte IP portfolio is architecturally distinctive in the food industry for its remarkable breadth across multiple technology pillars. The portfolio's CPC classification distribution spans <strong>food preservation and processing (A23B \u2014 46 documents)<\/strong>, container and packaging design (B65D \u2014 23 documents), recombinant DNA and plant biotechnology (C12N \u2014 23 documents), plant variety protection (A01H \u2014 14 documents), food machinery (A23N \u2014 12 documents), dairy and produce processing (A23C \u2014 12 documents), metalworking for packaging (B21D \u2014 10 documents), frozen confection technology (A23G \u2014 10 documents), and food packaging operations (B65B \u2014 10 documents). This multi-pillar IP architecture is consistent with a company that has historically operated across the full farm-to-fork supply chain \u2014 from plant breeding through processing, preservation, packaging, and final product delivery.<\/p>\r\n <p>The legal status composition \u2014 with <strong>156 lapsed patents (46.8%)<\/strong>, 134 expired patents (40.2%), 27 granted (8.1%), 10 pending (3.0%), and 6 revoked (1.8%) \u2014 is characteristic of a portfolio with a significant historical depth, where the dominant lapsed and expired categories reflect inventions from the 1960s\u20131990s era that have completed their commercial lifecycle. The 37 currently alive patents represent the active, commercially relevant segment of Del Monte's current IP estate. The geographic filing footprint spans 15+ jurisdictions \u2014 led by the United States (108 documents), Canada (35), WIPO PCT (24), European Patent Office (19), and the Philippines (17) \u2014 confirming a strategic filing approach that tracks Del Monte's primary manufacturing, commercial, and agricultural markets.<\/p>\r\n <p>This patent landscape analysis provides actionable intelligence for IP professionals, food technology strategists, agricultural investors, and competitive intelligence analysts seeking to understand the historical evolution, current status, and future direction of Del Monte's intellectual property portfolio in the global food and agricultural technology sector.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"sec-title\">Patent Filing & Publication Timeline Analysis<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Del Monte Patent Priority, Application & Publication Date Trends Over Time<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Annual volume of priority filings, application submissions, and publications \u2014 tracing Del Monte's IP prosecution lifecycle from 1960 to present<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>X-Axis Range:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"dXf\" onchange=\"buildDates()\">\r\n <option value=\"1960\" selected>1960 \u2013 Present<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"1980\">1980 \u2013 Present<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"2000\">2000 \u2013 Present<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"all\">All Years<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <label> | Series:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"dSf\" onchange=\"buildDates()\">\r\n <option value=\"all\">All Three Series<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"priority\">Priority Only<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"application\">Application Only<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"publication\">Publication Only<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"datesChart\" height=\"340\"><\/canvas><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>Decades of Innovation Filing: Decoding Del Monte's Patent Prosecution Lifecycle Across the Agri-Food Technology Spectrum<\/h3>\r\n <p>The temporal distribution of Del Monte's patent activity reveals a filing history of remarkable breadth and historical continuity \u2014 one that mirrors the company's own corporate evolution from a California cannery into a global diversified food and agricultural enterprise. The patent record begins with a single priority filing in 1916, reflecting Del Monte's early engagement with industrial food preservation chemistry during the era when canning technology was itself a frontier innovation. The portfolio's most concentrated filing period corresponds to the years <strong>1968\u20131991<\/strong>, with the peak year being 1986 with an extraordinary <strong>33 priority filings<\/strong> \u2014 a surge that aligns with Del Monte's most aggressive R&D investment period in biological pesticides, transgenic plant technology, food preservation chemistry, and new canned product formulations.<\/p>\r\n <p>The year 1986 stands out as the single most prolific year in Del Monte's patent prosecution history, reflecting a convergence of multiple innovation streams: advances in recombinant DNA technology that enabled plant genetic transformation (C12N filings), the commercialization of biological pesticides and post-harvest treatment compounds (A01N filings), and significant investments in metallic can design and sealing technology (B21D\/B65D filings). This multi-domain surge is consistent with Del Monte's corporate positioning in the mid-1980s as a diversified agri-food conglomerate under the RJR Nabisco ownership era. The subsequent years 1991 (13 filings), 1989 (10), and 1985 (9) sustain high-volume prosecution, before a pronounced deceleration from the mid-1990s onwards reflects the progressive divestiture and restructuring of Del Monte's various business units.<\/p>\r\n <p>The post-2000 activity pattern is particularly revealing: a renewed burst in 2002 (23 filings) reflects Del Monte's investment in frozen produce and specialty food product innovation following its re-emergence as an independent public company. The more recent filings in 2020 (11 filings) in plant biotechnology and 2012 (11 filings) in fresh produce packaging represent Del Monte's current innovation strategy \u2014 focused, targeted R&D in plant variety development and sustainable packaging rather than the broad-spectrum technology prosecution of the 1980s era.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Del Monte Patent Portfolio Distribution by CPC (Cooperative Patent Classification) Subclass<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Top CPC subclasses by document count \u2014 mapping the full technology breadth of Del Monte's food science, biotechnology, and packaging IP estate<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Sort:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"cpcS\" onchange=\"buildCPC()\">\r\n <option value=\"desc\">Highest Count First<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"asc\">Lowest Count First<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <label> | Show Top:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"cpcT\" onchange=\"buildCPC()\">\r\n <option value=\"10\" selected>Top 10<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"8\">Top 8<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"12\">Top 12<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"6\">Top 6<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"cpcChart\" height=\"340\"><\/canvas><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>CPC Technology Intelligence: How Del Monte's Patent Classification Reveals the Full Farm-to-Fork Innovation Architecture<\/h3>\r\n <p>The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) distribution of Del Monte's patent portfolio provides the most granular and technically precise map of where the company's inventive resources have been directed across its operational history. The dominant CPC class is <strong>A23B (46 documents \u2014 20.5% of CPC-classified patents)<\/strong> \u2014 Preservation of foods, vegetables, or plants; anti-bacterials for food preservation. This concentration in A23B reflects Del Monte's foundational expertise in post-harvest preservation science: the thermal processing parameters, acidification protocols, chemical preservative formulations, and modified atmosphere packaging technologies that have defined industrial food preservation since the early 20th century and continue to represent the company's most commercially critical technical competency.<\/p>\r\n <p>The second-largest cluster, <strong>B65D (23 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 containers and packaging \u2014 and the closely related <strong>B65B (10 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 packaging operations \u2014 together account for 33 documents covering Del Monte's substantial investment in can design, closure technology, easy-open end systems, and multi-layer packaging innovations. The <strong>C12N (23 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 nucleic acids, recombinant DNA, and plant transformation \u2014 cluster is strategically significant as it reflects Del Monte's mid-1980s to early-1990s investment in transgenic plant technology, including its landmark work on tomato genetic transformation (the research that informed the PDA approval pathway for genetically engineered fresh produce) and virus-resistant crop development. This C12N cluster places Del Monte among the earliest agri-food companies to prosecute recombinant plant biotechnology IP.<\/p>\r\n <p>The <strong>A01H (14 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 plant variety protection and new plant development \u2014 cluster represents Del Monte's ongoing investment in proprietary pineapple, tomato, and specialty fresh produce variety development through conventional plant breeding, supported by plant patents and plant variety protection certificates. The <strong>A23G (10 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 ice cream, frozen confections \u2014 cluster captures Del Monte's frozen treat product line IP, while <strong>A23K (9 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 animal feeding stuffs \u2014 reflects the pet food R&D heritage of the Meow Mix and Del Monte pet food business units, confirming the remarkable technology diversification of a company whose IP portfolio spans from plant genomics to canine nutrition science.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">IPC (International Patent Classification) Distribution Across Del Monte's Global Patent Portfolio<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Del Monte patent documents mapped by main IPC class \u2014 the international taxonomy applied by patent offices worldwide for prior art search and examination<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Sort:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"ipcS\" onchange=\"buildIPC()\">\r\n <option value=\"desc\">Highest Count First<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"asc\">Lowest Count First<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <label> | Show Top:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"ipcT\" onchange=\"buildIPC()\">\r\n <option value=\"10\" selected>Top 10<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"8\">Top 8<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"12\">Top 12<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"ipcChart\" height=\"340\"><\/canvas><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>IPC Classification Analysis: Uncovering Del Monte's Multi-Domain Technology Taxonomy Across Global Patent Jurisdictions<\/h3>\r\n <p>The International Patent Classification (IPC) distribution of Del Monte's portfolio provides the cross-jurisdictional technology taxonomy lens applied by patent examiners across the US, Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, and the Philippines \u2014 the primary filing jurisdictions for Del Monte's IP estate. The IPC analysis reveals both convergent and divergent patterns relative to the CPC distribution, offering complementary insights into the portfolio's technology scope. <strong>A23B (39 documents)<\/strong> remains dominant in IPC \u2014 confirming the primacy of food preservation and post-harvest treatment technology as Del Monte's core innovation domain, irrespective of the classification system applied.<\/p>\r\n <p>The IPC distribution reveals a notably expanded <strong>A01H (24 documents)<\/strong> classification \u2014 larger than in CPC \u2014 reflecting the IPC system's somewhat broader inclusion of plant variety and agricultural genetics documents, including plant patents for pineapple varieties, tomato cultivars, and specialty produce developments that form the growing edge of Del Monte International's current R&D strategy. The <strong>B65D (25 documents)<\/strong> and <strong>B65B (24 documents)<\/strong> clusters in IPC are proportionally significant, capturing Del Monte's historical depth in packaging design and operations \u2014 particularly the generation of can-end patents from the 1970s and 1980s that predated the widespread adoption of easy-open ring-pull technology.<\/p>\r\n <p>The <strong>A23L (20 documents)<\/strong> IPC class \u2014 food preparations, cooking, ready meals \u2014 appears prominently in IPC but less so in CPC, reflecting the classification of Del Monte's product innovation patents (beverages, fruit preparations, vegetable purees, and specialty sauces) under IPC's broader food preparations category. The <strong>C12N (21 documents)<\/strong> alignment between IPC and CPC confirms the robustness of Del Monte's biotechnology patent classification. For IP professionals conducting freedom-to-operate analyses or prior art searches in the food processing and agricultural biotechnology domains, the A23B, A01H, B65D, and C12N IPC classes constitute the essential search territory for Del Monte's core and most strategically significant intellectual property assets.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Del Monte Global Patent Filing Geography: Jurisdiction-Wise IP Protection Strategy<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Patent document count by filing jurisdiction \u2014 revealing Del Monte's geographic IP protection priorities and commercial market enforcement strategy<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Sort:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"ctS\" onchange=\"buildCountry()\">\r\n <option value=\"desc\">Highest First<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"asc\">Lowest First<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <label> | Show Top:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"ctT\" onchange=\"buildCountry()\">\r\n <option value=\"10\" selected>Top 10<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"8\">Top 8<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"15\">Top 15<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"countryChart\" height=\"300\"><\/canvas><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>Global IP Jurisdiction Map: How Del Monte's Filing Geography Tracks Its Agricultural Production and Commercial Market Footprint<\/h3>\r\n <p>Del Monte's patent filing geography presents a fascinating picture of how a vertically integrated agri-food company maps its intellectual property protection to its operational realities \u2014 with filing jurisdictions reflecting not just commercial consumer markets but also the agricultural production geographies where proprietary plant varieties and cultivation methods require protection. The <strong>United States dominates with 108 patent documents (32.4%)<\/strong> \u2014 entirely consistent with Del Monte's California origins, its primary consumer market presence, and the jurisdiction most critical for enforcement of food technology patents against domestic competitors in canned goods, fresh produce, and frozen food categories.<\/p>\r\n <p><strong>Canada (35 documents)<\/strong> reflects a combination of commercial market proximity and the Canadian patent system's importance for food and agricultural technology IP enforcement. The substantial <strong>WIPO PCT (24 documents)<\/strong> and <strong>European Patent Office (19 documents)<\/strong> representation confirms that Del Monte has historically pursued international patent protection for its most commercially significant innovations \u2014 particularly in food preservation chemistry and packaging design \u2014 through the PCT route, which offers maximum jurisdictional flexibility for subsequent national phase entry. <strong>Australia (17 documents)<\/strong> is noteworthy as a significant filing jurisdiction, reflecting Del Monte's historical pineapple and tropical fruit agricultural operations in the Pacific region.<\/p>\r\n <p>Most distinctively, the presence of <strong>Philippines (17 documents)<\/strong> as a top-five filing jurisdiction is unique and strategically revealing. The Philippines is one of Del Monte's most important agricultural production bases \u2014 home to large-scale pineapple plantation operations, a Del Monte Philippines canning facility, and collaborative R&D with Philippine academic institutions (as evidenced by the University of San Agustin co-assignee filings). Filing substantial IP in the Philippines reflects Del Monte's recognition that protecting proprietary agricultural methods, plant varieties, and processing technologies at the point of production is as strategically important as protecting finished product formulations in consumer markets. Japan (16), Spain (10), Mexico (9), Germany (8), and South Africa (8) round out a global filing footprint that spans four continents.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Legal Status Distribution of Del Monte's Patent Portfolio: Granted, Lapsed, Expired, Pending & Revoked<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Breakdown of 333 Del Monte patent documents by current legal status \u2014 measuring IP asset lifecycle, portfolio health, and commercial enforceability<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Chart Style:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"lsT\" onchange=\"buildLegal()\">\r\n <option value=\"doughnut\" selected>Doughnut<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"bar\">Bar Chart<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"pie\">Pie Chart<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-center\"><div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"legalChart\" height=\"340\"><\/canvas><\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>Portfolio Lifecycle Analysis: Contextualizing Del Monte's Legal Status Distribution as a Multi-Decade IP Asset Maturity Signal<\/h3>\r\n <p>The legal status distribution of Del Monte's patent portfolio must be interpreted through the lens of a company with filing history spanning over a century and multiple major corporate restructuring events \u2014 spin-offs, divestitures, and brand splits that significantly affected IP maintenance decision-making. The dominant categories of <strong>LAPSED (156 patents \u2014 46.8%)<\/strong> and <strong>EXPIRED (134 patents \u2014 40.2%)<\/strong> together account for 87% of the portfolio \u2014 a figure that reflects the natural lifecycle completion of a largely historical patent estate. Lapsed patents represent those abandoned through non-payment of maintenance fees, often because the underlying technology was superseded, the associated business unit was divested, or the commercial value of continued maintenance could not be justified. Expired patents have completed their full 20-year statutory term \u2014 the strongest quality indicator in patent valuation, confirming that the underlying invention was valued enough to maintain through its entire legal life.<\/p>\r\n <p>The <strong>27 GRANTED patents (8.1%)<\/strong> represent Del Monte's currently active, legally enforceable intellectual property estate \u2014 the inventions for which Del Monte holds full legal rights to exclude competitors, license technology, and assert infringement claims. In the context of Del Monte's corporate structure \u2014 which now encompasses Del Monte International (fresh produce), Del Monte Foods (canned goods in the US), Del Monte Philippines, and Fresh Del Monte Produce as separate operating entities \u2014 these 27 granted patents are distributed across the portfolio's current operational entities and technology domains, with plant variety protection (A01H) emerging as the primary growth area for new grants in recent years.<\/p>\r\n <p>The <strong>10 PENDING patents (3.0%)<\/strong> represent the active prosecution pipeline \u2014 applications currently undergoing examination that will yield additional granted rights upon allowance. The <strong>6 REVOKED patents (1.8%)<\/strong> are a relatively small figure indicating limited post-grant challenge success by competitors, though the presence of revocations in a portfolio of this size confirms that Del Monte's IP assets in food processing and biotechnology are significant enough to attract targeted opposition proceedings. The 37 Alive patents (11.1%) collectively define the perimeter of Del Monte's current enforceable IP estate \u2014 a focused but strategically relevant portfolio concentrated in plant variety development and specialty packaging innovations.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Del Monte IP Portfolio Vitality Index: Alive vs. Dead Patent Asset Classification<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Live versus terminated patent documents \u2014 a direct measure of current IP enforceability within Del Monte's global patent estate<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Chart Style:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"adT\" onchange=\"buildAlive()\">\r\n <option value=\"doughnut\" selected>Doughnut<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"bar\">Bar Chart<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-center\"><div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"aliveChart\" height=\"300\"><\/canvas><\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>Portfolio Vitality Assessment: Understanding the 11.1% Alive Ratio in Del Monte's Mature, Historically Deep IP Estate<\/h3>\r\n <p>The Alive\/Dead binary classification provides the most immediate and actionable measure of Del Monte's current IP enforcement capability and portfolio commercial relevance. With <strong>37 patent documents classified as Alive (11.1%)<\/strong> against 296 Dead (88.9%), Del Monte's portfolio vitality ratio is low in absolute terms \u2014 but entirely appropriate and expected for a portfolio spanning over 100 years of filings from a company that has undergone multiple corporate restructurings, brand splits, and divestiture events. The Dead category encompasses the vast majority of historical filings from the 1960s through the 1990s that have naturally transitioned to lapsed or expired status as their commercial lifecycle concluded.<\/p>\r\n <p>For competitive intelligence and freedom-to-operate analysis purposes, the 37 Alive documents represent the critical focal point. These living patents are concentrated in Del Monte International's recent plant variety protection filings (pineapple varieties, tropical fruit cultivars), current packaging innovation applications (sustainable packaging structures and easy-open container systems), and ongoing plant biotechnology proceedings (natural compound extraction and plant-derived ingredient applications in collaboration with Philippine academic partners). This alive portfolio, while compact, reflects Del Monte's current strategic R&D priorities \u2014 and the pending application pipeline suggests additional grants will emerge from the 2020\u20132025 filing cohort through 2027.<\/p>\r\n <p>The 296 Dead patents \u2014 though no longer enforceable \u2014 constitute an invaluable strategic asset: a massive body of published prior art in food preservation chemistry, plant biotechnology, and packaging engineering that prevents competitors from obtaining patents in adjacent technology areas and serves as a rich technical resource for Del Monte's own engineers and R&D teams seeking documented solutions to historical food processing challenges. This prior art moat \u2014 accumulated across six decades of prosecution \u2014 represents a form of defensive IP value that persists long after individual patents have lapsed or expired.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Del Monte Patent Family Size Distribution: Multi-Jurisdictional Filing Depth as a Commercial Value Indicator<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Number of patent families grouped by family size \u2014 indicating geographic breadth of IP protection and Del Monte's prioritization of core innovations<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Family Size Range:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"famT\" onchange=\"buildFamily()\">\r\n <option value=\"10\" selected>Size 1\u201310<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"15\">Size 1\u201315<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"20\">Size 1\u201320 (all)<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <label> | Chart Type:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"famC\" onchange=\"buildFamily()\">\r\n <option value=\"bar\" selected>Bar Chart<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"line\">Line Chart<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"familyChart\" height=\"300\"><\/canvas><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>Patent Family Architecture: Geographic Depth Analysis Reveals Del Monte's Most Commercially Valuable Core Inventions<\/h3>\r\n <p>Patent family analysis provides one of the most powerful quantitative signals available in IP landscape studies \u2014 enabling analysts to identify which inventions an assignee considered valuable enough to prosecute across multiple jurisdictions at significant annual maintenance cost. Del Monte's family distribution reveals a portfolio dominated by singleton families at 138 families (73% of all 189 families contain a single member), reflecting the historical reality of a company that filed many jurisdiction-specific innovations \u2014 often protecting food products or packaging designs in a single target market rather than pursuing multi-national prosecution strategies.<\/p>\r\n <p>The medium-family cohort (sizes 2\u20136) accounts for 45 families and represents the commercially important core of Del Monte's globally protected innovations \u2014 inventions considered significant enough to protect in 2\u20136 jurisdictions, typically combining US protection with a combination of Canadian, Australian, European, and\/or Philippine coverage. These medium-sized families encompass Del Monte's most important food preservation chemistry patents, key packaging design innovations, and core biotechnology filings where the underlying commercial opportunity extended across multiple major markets simultaneously.<\/p>\r\n <p>At the high end of the distribution, Del Monte maintains families of 10, 11, and <strong>17 member documents<\/strong> \u2014 the largest family in the portfolio, almost certainly corresponding to one of the company's foundational food processing or plant biotechnology innovations prosecuted across all major markets simultaneously. A 17-member family represents exceptional investment in multi-jurisdictional protection and signals the highest-priority technological asset in Del Monte's historical patent estate. From an IP valuation standpoint, family size remains one of the most reliable quantitative proxies for assignee-assessed commercial value \u2014 and Del Monte's largest families in A23B (food preservation) and C12N (plant biotechnology) almost certainly represent the company's most commercially impactful historical innovations.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Technology Overview by Assignee: Del Monte's Corporate Entity IP Ecosystem and Subsidiary Innovation Architecture<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Patent document count by assignee entity \u2014 revealing the corporate structure, historical divestitures, and strategic R&D focus across Del Monte's IP ecosystem<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Sort:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"asS\" onchange=\"buildAssignee()\">\r\n <option value=\"desc\">Highest First<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"asc\">Lowest First<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <label> | Show Top:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"asT\" onchange=\"buildAssignee()\">\r\n <option value=\"8\" selected>Top 8<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"10\">Top 10<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"6\">Top 6<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"assigneeChart\" height=\"300\"><\/canvas><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>Corporate IP Ecosystem Analysis: How Del Monte's Brand Fragmentation and Divestiture History Shaped Its Assignee Architecture<\/h3>\r\n <p>The assignee distribution within Del Monte's patent portfolio is among the most informationally rich dimensions of the entire landscape analysis \u2014 directly mapping the company's complex corporate history of mergers, divestitures, brand splits, and geographic spin-offs onto its intellectual property ownership record. <strong>DEL MONTE (core entity \u2014 148 documents, 44.4%)<\/strong> dominates the portfolio and represents the historical US canned goods and branded food products entity, encompassing filings from the 1960s through the early 2000s across food preservation, packaging, and ingredient technology. This core entity's IP concentration is consistent with Del Monte's historical position as a vertically integrated cannery-to-consumer brand.<\/p>\r\n <p><strong>DEL MONTE FRESH PRODUCE (32 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 now operating as Fresh Del Monte Produce \u2014 represents the fresh fruit and produce division spun off in 1997, with filings concentrated in post-harvest treatment, fresh produce packaging, and modified atmosphere technology for extending the shelf life of fresh pineapples, bananas, and specialty produce. <strong>DEL MONTE PHILIPPINES (14 documents)<\/strong> captures the Philippines operations' IP contributions, including collaborative research with the University of San Agustin on plant-derived bioactive compounds \u2014 a distinctive pairing that reflects Del Monte Philippines' dual role as both a commercial production entity and an agri-food R&D partner to Philippine academic institutions.<\/p>\r\n <p><strong>MANN PACKING (10 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 the fresh-cut vegetables company acquired by Del Monte Foods in 2018 \u2014 contributes specialty produce processing and packaging IP. <strong>DEL MET (10 documents)<\/strong> reflects Del Monte's historical metalworking and can manufacturing subsidiary, with a portfolio concentrated in B21D (can body and end manufacture) filings. The presence of <strong>MEOW MIX (7 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 the pet food brand once owned by Del Monte Foods \u2014 captures the pet food era's innovation in companion animal nutrition formulation. This multi-entity assignee landscape is a corporate history in miniature, tracing Del Monte's evolution from a single branded food company into an ecosystem of legally distinct but commercially related food and agriculture entities.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:44px;\">\r\n <div class=\"sec-title\">Spotlight: 4 Recent Unique Patents from Del Monte's Active Innovation Pipeline<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"pt-grid\">\r\n\r\n <div class=\"pt\">\r\n <div class=\"pt-num\">USPP37193 P2<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"pt-class\">A01H-006\/22 \u2013 New Plant Varieties<\/div>\r\n <p class=\"pt-desc\">A newly granted US plant patent for a proprietary pineapple variety developed by Del Monte International \u2014 the most recent grant in the portfolio. This filing is part of Del Monte's ongoing investment in developing and protecting exclusive tropical fruit varieties with superior flavor profiles, extended shelf life, pest resistance, and commercial yield characteristics that differentiate its branded fresh pineapple products in global retail markets.<\/p>\r\n <div class=\"pt-meta\">\r\n <div>Priority: <span>2025-01-27<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Published: <span>2026-01-06<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Status: <span>GRANTED<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Assignee: <span>DEL MONTE INTL<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"pt\">\r\n <div class=\"pt-num\">USPP36777 P2<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"pt-class\">A01H-005\/08 \u2013 Fruit Plant Varieties<\/div>\r\n <p class=\"pt-desc\">A granted US plant patent covering a novel pineapple cultivar developed through Del Monte International's proprietary plant breeding program. This patent protects a new fruit plant variety with distinct agronomic and organoleptic characteristics \u2014 a key instrument in Del Monte's strategy to maintain exclusive commercial advantage in the premium fresh pineapple market segment against competing growers and fresh produce distributors.<\/p>\r\n <div class=\"pt-meta\">\r\n <div>Priority: <span>2024-09-24<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Published: <span>2025-07-01<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Status: <span>GRANTED<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Assignee: <span>DEL MONTE INTL<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"pt\">\r\n <div class=\"pt-num\">CA3234220 A1<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"pt-class\">B65D-005\/42 \u2013 Packaging Containers<\/div>\r\n <p class=\"pt-desc\">A Canadian patent application for an innovative cardboard container design \u2014 part of Del Monte International's investment in sustainable and consumer-friendly packaging architecture. This packaging innovation addresses the global regulatory and consumer-driven demand for reduced plastic packaging, featuring novel structural configurations that enhance product protection, portion control, and retail display appeal while supporting Del Monte's environmental sustainability commitments.<\/p>\r\n <div class=\"pt-meta\">\r\n <div>Priority: <span>2023-04-05<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Published: <span>2025-06-18<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Status: <span>PENDING<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Assignee: <span>DEL MONTE INTL<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"pt\">\r\n <div class=\"pt-num\">AEP6001258\/2021 A1<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"pt-class\">A61K-036\/00 \u2013 Medicinal Plant Preparations<\/div>\r\n <p class=\"pt-desc\">A UAE patent application filed by Del Monte Philippines in collaboration with the University of San Agustin, covering plant-derived bioactive compound preparations with potential therapeutic applications. This pioneering collaborative filing signals Del Monte Philippines' strategic expansion into the functional food and nutraceutical space \u2014 leveraging tropical plant biodiversity and academic research partnerships to develop novel health-forward ingredient technologies from pineapple and related tropical fruit sources.<\/p>\r\n <div class=\"pt-meta\">\r\n <div>Priority: <span>2020-12-09<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Published: <span>2024-12-16<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Status: <span>PENDING<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Assignee: <span>DEL MONTE PH \/ UNIV. SAN AGUSTIN<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"traj\">\r\n <h2>Innovation Trajectory: Del Monte's Century of IP Evolution & Future Technology Strategy Outlook<\/h2>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"phases\">\r\n <div class=\"phase\">\r\n <div class=\"ph-lbl\">Phase 1: Canning & Preservation (1916\u20131960)<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ph-txt\">Foundational food preservation chemistry, thermal processing, acidification, and metallic container design. Establishing the industrial canning technology IP that defined Del Monte's first century of commercial success.<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"phase\">\r\n <div class=\"ph-lbl\">Phase 2: Diversification Surge (1961\u20131990)<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ph-txt\">Peak filing activity (33 patents in 1986). Expansion into transgenic plant technology (C12N), biological pesticides (A01N), frozen foods (A23G), and pet food (A23K) \u2014 reflecting Del Monte's conglomerate-era diversification strategy under RJR Nabisco ownership.<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"phase\">\r\n <div class=\"ph-lbl\">Phase 3: Restructuring & Focus (1991\u20132015)<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ph-txt\">Corporate spin-offs (Fresh Del Monte 1997), divestitures, and declining filing volume. IP strategy narrows to core competencies: fresh produce packaging, canned food formulations, and plant variety development for pineapple and specialty produce.<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"phase\">\r\n <div class=\"ph-lbl\">Phase 4: Biotech & Sustainability (2016\u2013Present)<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ph-txt\">Renewed focus on plant variety patents (A01H), sustainable packaging (B65D), nutraceuticals (A61K), and academic research partnerships in the Philippines. Positioning Del Monte International as a precision agriculture and functional food innovator.<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <p>The innovation trajectory of Del Monte, as revealed through this comprehensive patent landscape analysis, is the story of a company whose intellectual property history mirrors its extraordinary corporate journey \u2014 from a pioneering 20th-century industrial cannery through conglomerate diversification and fragmentation, to a refocused 21st-century agri-food enterprise investing in the convergence of plant biotechnology, sustainable packaging, and functional food ingredients. The portfolio's century-long span captures this evolution with remarkable fidelity: each decade's filing patterns reflecting the strategic priorities, ownership structure, and technology frontiers of its era.<\/p>\r\n <p>The current trajectory is clearly defined by two converging innovation streams. The first is <strong>plant variety protection<\/strong> \u2014 Del Monte International's aggressive programme of pineapple variety development, generating a series of US plant patents for proprietary cultivars that deliver measurable advantages in flavor, shelf life, yield, and pest resistance. These plant variety patents represent Del Monte International's most commercially impactful current IP strategy \u2014 protecting the biological foundation of its premium fresh pineapple franchise against competitors who lack access to the same proprietary genetics. The second stream is <strong>sustainable packaging innovation<\/strong> \u2014 a response to the tidal wave of regulatory and consumer pressure on single-use plastics and conventional food packaging, with Del Monte's recent B65D filings reflecting design innovation in cardboard-based and reduced-plastic container architectures.<\/p>\r\n <p>Looking forward, the 10 pending patent applications currently in prosecution \u2014 combined with the pattern of recent plant biotechnology and nutraceutical filings in collaboration with Philippine academic partners \u2014 suggest that Del Monte's next innovation frontier will be defined by the intersection of tropical plant biodiversity and functional food science. The University of San Agustin collaboration and the UAE\/US pending applications in plant-derived bioactive compounds signal a strategic intent to position Del Monte Philippines as both a commercial food producer and a source of novel, scientifically validated functional ingredients with applications in the rapidly growing global nutraceutical and health food markets. For IP professionals, food technology investors, and competitive intelligence analysts, monitoring Del Monte's pending prosecution pipeline will provide early intelligence on this emerging strategic direction.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"contact\">\r\n For inquiries regarding customized patent landscape reports, competitive IP intelligence, or white-space analysis in the tobacco technology or adjacent sectors, please contact IIPRD at <a href=\"mailto:info@iiprd.com\">info@iiprd.com<\/a> or through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iiprd.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.iiprd.com<\/a>.\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\r\n <strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> This article is published for informational and exemplary representation purposes only, based on publicly available patent databases and information. 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}\r\n }\r\n<\/style>\r\n<\/head>\r\n<body>\r\n<div class=\"wrap\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"hdr\">\r\n <div class=\"eyebrow\">Patent Landscape Report \u00b7 IIPRD Technology Intelligence Series<\/div>\r\n <h1>Del Monte Patent Landscape: A Comprehensive Intellectual Property & Food Technology Innovation Analysis<\/h1>\r\n <p class=\"hdr-sub\">An in-depth analysis of 333 patent documents spanning over a century of food science, agricultural biotechnology, plant variety innovation, and packaging engineering \u2014 mapping Del Monte's global IP portfolio across 15+ jurisdictions and 6 decades of continuous inventive activity.<\/p>\r\n <div class=\"tags\">\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Patent Landscape<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Intellectual Property<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">IP Portfolio<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Technology Innovation<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Patent Analytics<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Prior Art<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Patent Family<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Food Technology IP<\/span>\r\n <span class=\"tag\">Agri-Biotech Patents<\/span>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"stats\">\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">333<\/div><div class=\"l\">Total Patent Documents<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">189<\/div><div class=\"l\">Patent Families<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">8.1%<\/div><div class=\"l\">Granted Patents<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">15+<\/div><div class=\"l\">Filing Jurisdictions<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">1916<\/div><div class=\"l\">Earliest Priority Year<\/div><\/div>\r\n <div class=\"stat\"><div class=\"n\">37<\/div><div class=\"l\">Alive Patents<\/div><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"exec\">\r\n <h2>Executive Summary: Del Monte Patent Portfolio \u2014 A Century of Food Science & Agricultural Innovation<\/h2>\r\n <p>Del Monte \u2014 one of the world's most iconic food and agricultural brands, with operations spanning canned fruits and vegetables, fresh produce, plant biotechnology, pet food, and food service \u2014 has assembled an intellectual property portfolio that reflects more than a century of continuous innovation across the agri-food value chain. This patent landscape report, prepared by IIPRD as an exemplary technology intelligence analysis, examines a corpus of <strong>333 patent documents<\/strong> organized across 189 distinct patent families, with priority filings traceable to 1916 \u2014 spanning the arc from early food preservation chemistry through modern plant genomics and smart packaging engineering.<\/p>\r\n <p>The Del Monte IP portfolio is architecturally distinctive in the food industry for its remarkable breadth across multiple technology pillars. The portfolio's CPC classification distribution spans <strong>food preservation and processing (A23B \u2014 46 documents)<\/strong>, container and packaging design (B65D \u2014 23 documents), recombinant DNA and plant biotechnology (C12N \u2014 23 documents), plant variety protection (A01H \u2014 14 documents), food machinery (A23N \u2014 12 documents), dairy and produce processing (A23C \u2014 12 documents), metalworking for packaging (B21D \u2014 10 documents), frozen confection technology (A23G \u2014 10 documents), and food packaging operations (B65B \u2014 10 documents). This multi-pillar IP architecture is consistent with a company that has historically operated across the full farm-to-fork supply chain \u2014 from plant breeding through processing, preservation, packaging, and final product delivery.<\/p>\r\n <p>The legal status composition \u2014 with <strong>156 lapsed patents (46.8%)<\/strong>, 134 expired patents (40.2%), 27 granted (8.1%), 10 pending (3.0%), and 6 revoked (1.8%) \u2014 is characteristic of a portfolio with a significant historical depth, where the dominant lapsed and expired categories reflect inventions from the 1960s\u20131990s era that have completed their commercial lifecycle. The 37 currently alive patents represent the active, commercially relevant segment of Del Monte's current IP estate. The geographic filing footprint spans 15+ jurisdictions \u2014 led by the United States (108 documents), Canada (35), WIPO PCT (24), European Patent Office (19), and the Philippines (17) \u2014 confirming a strategic filing approach that tracks Del Monte's primary manufacturing, commercial, and agricultural markets.<\/p>\r\n <p>This patent landscape analysis provides actionable intelligence for IP professionals, food technology strategists, agricultural investors, and competitive intelligence analysts seeking to understand the historical evolution, current status, and future direction of Del Monte's intellectual property portfolio in the global food and agricultural technology sector.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"sec-title\">Patent Filing & Publication Timeline Analysis<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Del Monte Patent Priority, Application & Publication Date Trends Over Time<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Annual volume of priority filings, application submissions, and publications \u2014 tracing Del Monte's IP prosecution lifecycle from 1960 to present<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>X-Axis Range:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"dXf\" onchange=\"buildDates()\">\r\n <option value=\"1960\" selected>1960 \u2013 Present<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"1980\">1980 \u2013 Present<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"2000\">2000 \u2013 Present<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"all\">All Years<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <label> | Series:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"dSf\" onchange=\"buildDates()\">\r\n <option value=\"all\">All Three Series<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"priority\">Priority Only<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"application\">Application Only<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"publication\">Publication Only<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"datesChart\" height=\"340\"><\/canvas><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>Decades of Innovation Filing: Decoding Del Monte's Patent Prosecution Lifecycle Across the Agri-Food Technology Spectrum<\/h3>\r\n <p>The temporal distribution of Del Monte's patent activity reveals a filing history of remarkable breadth and historical continuity \u2014 one that mirrors the company's own corporate evolution from a California cannery into a global diversified food and agricultural enterprise. The patent record begins with a single priority filing in 1916, reflecting Del Monte's early engagement with industrial food preservation chemistry during the era when canning technology was itself a frontier innovation. The portfolio's most concentrated filing period corresponds to the years <strong>1968\u20131991<\/strong>, with the peak year being 1986 with an extraordinary <strong>33 priority filings<\/strong> \u2014 a surge that aligns with Del Monte's most aggressive R&D investment period in biological pesticides, transgenic plant technology, food preservation chemistry, and new canned product formulations.<\/p>\r\n <p>The year 1986 stands out as the single most prolific year in Del Monte's patent prosecution history, reflecting a convergence of multiple innovation streams: advances in recombinant DNA technology that enabled plant genetic transformation (C12N filings), the commercialization of biological pesticides and post-harvest treatment compounds (A01N filings), and significant investments in metallic can design and sealing technology (B21D\/B65D filings). This multi-domain surge is consistent with Del Monte's corporate positioning in the mid-1980s as a diversified agri-food conglomerate under the RJR Nabisco ownership era. The subsequent years 1991 (13 filings), 1989 (10), and 1985 (9) sustain high-volume prosecution, before a pronounced deceleration from the mid-1990s onwards reflects the progressive divestiture and restructuring of Del Monte's various business units.<\/p>\r\n <p>The post-2000 activity pattern is particularly revealing: a renewed burst in 2002 (23 filings) reflects Del Monte's investment in frozen produce and specialty food product innovation following its re-emergence as an independent public company. The more recent filings in 2020 (11 filings) in plant biotechnology and 2012 (11 filings) in fresh produce packaging represent Del Monte's current innovation strategy \u2014 focused, targeted R&D in plant variety development and sustainable packaging rather than the broad-spectrum technology prosecution of the 1980s era.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Del Monte Patent Portfolio Distribution by CPC (Cooperative Patent Classification) Subclass<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Top CPC subclasses by document count \u2014 mapping the full technology breadth of Del Monte's food science, biotechnology, and packaging IP estate<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Sort:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"cpcS\" onchange=\"buildCPC()\">\r\n <option value=\"desc\">Highest Count First<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"asc\">Lowest Count First<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <label> | Show Top:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"cpcT\" onchange=\"buildCPC()\">\r\n <option value=\"10\" selected>Top 10<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"8\">Top 8<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"12\">Top 12<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"6\">Top 6<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"cpcChart\" height=\"340\"><\/canvas><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>CPC Technology Intelligence: How Del Monte's Patent Classification Reveals the Full Farm-to-Fork Innovation Architecture<\/h3>\r\n <p>The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) distribution of Del Monte's patent portfolio provides the most granular and technically precise map of where the company's inventive resources have been directed across its operational history. The dominant CPC class is <strong>A23B (46 documents \u2014 20.5% of CPC-classified patents)<\/strong> \u2014 Preservation of foods, vegetables, or plants; anti-bacterials for food preservation. This concentration in A23B reflects Del Monte's foundational expertise in post-harvest preservation science: the thermal processing parameters, acidification protocols, chemical preservative formulations, and modified atmosphere packaging technologies that have defined industrial food preservation since the early 20th century and continue to represent the company's most commercially critical technical competency.<\/p>\r\n <p>The second-largest cluster, <strong>B65D (23 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 containers and packaging \u2014 and the closely related <strong>B65B (10 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 packaging operations \u2014 together account for 33 documents covering Del Monte's substantial investment in can design, closure technology, easy-open end systems, and multi-layer packaging innovations. The <strong>C12N (23 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 nucleic acids, recombinant DNA, and plant transformation \u2014 cluster is strategically significant as it reflects Del Monte's mid-1980s to early-1990s investment in transgenic plant technology, including its landmark work on tomato genetic transformation (the research that informed the PDA approval pathway for genetically engineered fresh produce) and virus-resistant crop development. This C12N cluster places Del Monte among the earliest agri-food companies to prosecute recombinant plant biotechnology IP.<\/p>\r\n <p>The <strong>A01H (14 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 plant variety protection and new plant development \u2014 cluster represents Del Monte's ongoing investment in proprietary pineapple, tomato, and specialty fresh produce variety development through conventional plant breeding, supported by plant patents and plant variety protection certificates. The <strong>A23G (10 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 ice cream, frozen confections \u2014 cluster captures Del Monte's frozen treat product line IP, while <strong>A23K (9 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 animal feeding stuffs \u2014 reflects the pet food R&D heritage of the Meow Mix and Del Monte pet food business units, confirming the remarkable technology diversification of a company whose IP portfolio spans from plant genomics to canine nutrition science.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">IPC (International Patent Classification) Distribution Across Del Monte's Global Patent Portfolio<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Del Monte patent documents mapped by main IPC class \u2014 the international taxonomy applied by patent offices worldwide for prior art search and examination<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Sort:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"ipcS\" onchange=\"buildIPC()\">\r\n <option value=\"desc\">Highest Count First<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"asc\">Lowest Count First<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <label> | Show Top:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"ipcT\" onchange=\"buildIPC()\">\r\n <option value=\"10\" selected>Top 10<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"8\">Top 8<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"12\">Top 12<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"ipcChart\" height=\"340\"><\/canvas><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>IPC Classification Analysis: Uncovering Del Monte's Multi-Domain Technology Taxonomy Across Global Patent Jurisdictions<\/h3>\r\n <p>The International Patent Classification (IPC) distribution of Del Monte's portfolio provides the cross-jurisdictional technology taxonomy lens applied by patent examiners across the US, Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, and the Philippines \u2014 the primary filing jurisdictions for Del Monte's IP estate. The IPC analysis reveals both convergent and divergent patterns relative to the CPC distribution, offering complementary insights into the portfolio's technology scope. <strong>A23B (39 documents)<\/strong> remains dominant in IPC \u2014 confirming the primacy of food preservation and post-harvest treatment technology as Del Monte's core innovation domain, irrespective of the classification system applied.<\/p>\r\n <p>The IPC distribution reveals a notably expanded <strong>A01H (24 documents)<\/strong> classification \u2014 larger than in CPC \u2014 reflecting the IPC system's somewhat broader inclusion of plant variety and agricultural genetics documents, including plant patents for pineapple varieties, tomato cultivars, and specialty produce developments that form the growing edge of Del Monte International's current R&D strategy. The <strong>B65D (25 documents)<\/strong> and <strong>B65B (24 documents)<\/strong> clusters in IPC are proportionally significant, capturing Del Monte's historical depth in packaging design and operations \u2014 particularly the generation of can-end patents from the 1970s and 1980s that predated the widespread adoption of easy-open ring-pull technology.<\/p>\r\n <p>The <strong>A23L (20 documents)<\/strong> IPC class \u2014 food preparations, cooking, ready meals \u2014 appears prominently in IPC but less so in CPC, reflecting the classification of Del Monte's product innovation patents (beverages, fruit preparations, vegetable purees, and specialty sauces) under IPC's broader food preparations category. The <strong>C12N (21 documents)<\/strong> alignment between IPC and CPC confirms the robustness of Del Monte's biotechnology patent classification. For IP professionals conducting freedom-to-operate analyses or prior art searches in the food processing and agricultural biotechnology domains, the A23B, A01H, B65D, and C12N IPC classes constitute the essential search territory for Del Monte's core and most strategically significant intellectual property assets.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Del Monte Global Patent Filing Geography: Jurisdiction-Wise IP Protection Strategy<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Patent document count by filing jurisdiction \u2014 revealing Del Monte's geographic IP protection priorities and commercial market enforcement strategy<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Sort:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"ctS\" onchange=\"buildCountry()\">\r\n <option value=\"desc\">Highest First<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"asc\">Lowest First<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <label> | Show Top:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"ctT\" onchange=\"buildCountry()\">\r\n <option value=\"10\" selected>Top 10<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"8\">Top 8<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"15\">Top 15<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"countryChart\" height=\"300\"><\/canvas><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>Global IP Jurisdiction Map: How Del Monte's Filing Geography Tracks Its Agricultural Production and Commercial Market Footprint<\/h3>\r\n <p>Del Monte's patent filing geography presents a fascinating picture of how a vertically integrated agri-food company maps its intellectual property protection to its operational realities \u2014 with filing jurisdictions reflecting not just commercial consumer markets but also the agricultural production geographies where proprietary plant varieties and cultivation methods require protection. The <strong>United States dominates with 108 patent documents (32.4%)<\/strong> \u2014 entirely consistent with Del Monte's California origins, its primary consumer market presence, and the jurisdiction most critical for enforcement of food technology patents against domestic competitors in canned goods, fresh produce, and frozen food categories.<\/p>\r\n <p><strong>Canada (35 documents)<\/strong> reflects a combination of commercial market proximity and the Canadian patent system's importance for food and agricultural technology IP enforcement. The substantial <strong>WIPO PCT (24 documents)<\/strong> and <strong>European Patent Office (19 documents)<\/strong> representation confirms that Del Monte has historically pursued international patent protection for its most commercially significant innovations \u2014 particularly in food preservation chemistry and packaging design \u2014 through the PCT route, which offers maximum jurisdictional flexibility for subsequent national phase entry. <strong>Australia (17 documents)<\/strong> is noteworthy as a significant filing jurisdiction, reflecting Del Monte's historical pineapple and tropical fruit agricultural operations in the Pacific region.<\/p>\r\n <p>Most distinctively, the presence of <strong>Philippines (17 documents)<\/strong> as a top-five filing jurisdiction is unique and strategically revealing. The Philippines is one of Del Monte's most important agricultural production bases \u2014 home to large-scale pineapple plantation operations, a Del Monte Philippines canning facility, and collaborative R&D with Philippine academic institutions (as evidenced by the University of San Agustin co-assignee filings). Filing substantial IP in the Philippines reflects Del Monte's recognition that protecting proprietary agricultural methods, plant varieties, and processing technologies at the point of production is as strategically important as protecting finished product formulations in consumer markets. Japan (16), Spain (10), Mexico (9), Germany (8), and South Africa (8) round out a global filing footprint that spans four continents.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Legal Status Distribution of Del Monte's Patent Portfolio: Granted, Lapsed, Expired, Pending & Revoked<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Breakdown of 333 Del Monte patent documents by current legal status \u2014 measuring IP asset lifecycle, portfolio health, and commercial enforceability<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Chart Style:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"lsT\" onchange=\"buildLegal()\">\r\n <option value=\"doughnut\" selected>Doughnut<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"bar\">Bar Chart<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"pie\">Pie Chart<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-center\"><div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"legalChart\" height=\"340\"><\/canvas><\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>Portfolio Lifecycle Analysis: Contextualizing Del Monte's Legal Status Distribution as a Multi-Decade IP Asset Maturity Signal<\/h3>\r\n <p>The legal status distribution of Del Monte's patent portfolio must be interpreted through the lens of a company with filing history spanning over a century and multiple major corporate restructuring events \u2014 spin-offs, divestitures, and brand splits that significantly affected IP maintenance decision-making. The dominant categories of <strong>LAPSED (156 patents \u2014 46.8%)<\/strong> and <strong>EXPIRED (134 patents \u2014 40.2%)<\/strong> together account for 87% of the portfolio \u2014 a figure that reflects the natural lifecycle completion of a largely historical patent estate. Lapsed patents represent those abandoned through non-payment of maintenance fees, often because the underlying technology was superseded, the associated business unit was divested, or the commercial value of continued maintenance could not be justified. Expired patents have completed their full 20-year statutory term \u2014 the strongest quality indicator in patent valuation, confirming that the underlying invention was valued enough to maintain through its entire legal life.<\/p>\r\n <p>The <strong>27 GRANTED patents (8.1%)<\/strong> represent Del Monte's currently active, legally enforceable intellectual property estate \u2014 the inventions for which Del Monte holds full legal rights to exclude competitors, license technology, and assert infringement claims. In the context of Del Monte's corporate structure \u2014 which now encompasses Del Monte International (fresh produce), Del Monte Foods (canned goods in the US), Del Monte Philippines, and Fresh Del Monte Produce as separate operating entities \u2014 these 27 granted patents are distributed across the portfolio's current operational entities and technology domains, with plant variety protection (A01H) emerging as the primary growth area for new grants in recent years.<\/p>\r\n <p>The <strong>10 PENDING patents (3.0%)<\/strong> represent the active prosecution pipeline \u2014 applications currently undergoing examination that will yield additional granted rights upon allowance. The <strong>6 REVOKED patents (1.8%)<\/strong> are a relatively small figure indicating limited post-grant challenge success by competitors, though the presence of revocations in a portfolio of this size confirms that Del Monte's IP assets in food processing and biotechnology are significant enough to attract targeted opposition proceedings. The 37 Alive patents (11.1%) collectively define the perimeter of Del Monte's current enforceable IP estate \u2014 a focused but strategically relevant portfolio concentrated in plant variety development and specialty packaging innovations.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Del Monte IP Portfolio Vitality Index: Alive vs. Dead Patent Asset Classification<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Live versus terminated patent documents \u2014 a direct measure of current IP enforceability within Del Monte's global patent estate<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Chart Style:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"adT\" onchange=\"buildAlive()\">\r\n <option value=\"doughnut\" selected>Doughnut<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"bar\">Bar Chart<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-center\"><div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"aliveChart\" height=\"300\"><\/canvas><\/div><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>Portfolio Vitality Assessment: Understanding the 11.1% Alive Ratio in Del Monte's Mature, Historically Deep IP Estate<\/h3>\r\n <p>The Alive\/Dead binary classification provides the most immediate and actionable measure of Del Monte's current IP enforcement capability and portfolio commercial relevance. With <strong>37 patent documents classified as Alive (11.1%)<\/strong> against 296 Dead (88.9%), Del Monte's portfolio vitality ratio is low in absolute terms \u2014 but entirely appropriate and expected for a portfolio spanning over 100 years of filings from a company that has undergone multiple corporate restructurings, brand splits, and divestiture events. The Dead category encompasses the vast majority of historical filings from the 1960s through the 1990s that have naturally transitioned to lapsed or expired status as their commercial lifecycle concluded.<\/p>\r\n <p>For competitive intelligence and freedom-to-operate analysis purposes, the 37 Alive documents represent the critical focal point. These living patents are concentrated in Del Monte International's recent plant variety protection filings (pineapple varieties, tropical fruit cultivars), current packaging innovation applications (sustainable packaging structures and easy-open container systems), and ongoing plant biotechnology proceedings (natural compound extraction and plant-derived ingredient applications in collaboration with Philippine academic partners). This alive portfolio, while compact, reflects Del Monte's current strategic R&D priorities \u2014 and the pending application pipeline suggests additional grants will emerge from the 2020\u20132025 filing cohort through 2027.<\/p>\r\n <p>The 296 Dead patents \u2014 though no longer enforceable \u2014 constitute an invaluable strategic asset: a massive body of published prior art in food preservation chemistry, plant biotechnology, and packaging engineering that prevents competitors from obtaining patents in adjacent technology areas and serves as a rich technical resource for Del Monte's own engineers and R&D teams seeking documented solutions to historical food processing challenges. This prior art moat \u2014 accumulated across six decades of prosecution \u2014 represents a form of defensive IP value that persists long after individual patents have lapsed or expired.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Del Monte Patent Family Size Distribution: Multi-Jurisdictional Filing Depth as a Commercial Value Indicator<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Number of patent families grouped by family size \u2014 indicating geographic breadth of IP protection and Del Monte's prioritization of core innovations<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Family Size Range:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"famT\" onchange=\"buildFamily()\">\r\n <option value=\"10\" selected>Size 1\u201310<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"15\">Size 1\u201315<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"20\">Size 1\u201320 (all)<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <label> | Chart Type:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"famC\" onchange=\"buildFamily()\">\r\n <option value=\"bar\" selected>Bar Chart<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"line\">Line Chart<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"familyChart\" height=\"300\"><\/canvas><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>Patent Family Architecture: Geographic Depth Analysis Reveals Del Monte's Most Commercially Valuable Core Inventions<\/h3>\r\n <p>Patent family analysis provides one of the most powerful quantitative signals available in IP landscape studies \u2014 enabling analysts to identify which inventions an assignee considered valuable enough to prosecute across multiple jurisdictions at significant annual maintenance cost. Del Monte's family distribution reveals a portfolio dominated by singleton families at 138 families (73% of all 189 families contain a single member), reflecting the historical reality of a company that filed many jurisdiction-specific innovations \u2014 often protecting food products or packaging designs in a single target market rather than pursuing multi-national prosecution strategies.<\/p>\r\n <p>The medium-family cohort (sizes 2\u20136) accounts for 45 families and represents the commercially important core of Del Monte's globally protected innovations \u2014 inventions considered significant enough to protect in 2\u20136 jurisdictions, typically combining US protection with a combination of Canadian, Australian, European, and\/or Philippine coverage. These medium-sized families encompass Del Monte's most important food preservation chemistry patents, key packaging design innovations, and core biotechnology filings where the underlying commercial opportunity extended across multiple major markets simultaneously.<\/p>\r\n <p>At the high end of the distribution, Del Monte maintains families of 10, 11, and <strong>17 member documents<\/strong> \u2014 the largest family in the portfolio, almost certainly corresponding to one of the company's foundational food processing or plant biotechnology innovations prosecuted across all major markets simultaneously. A 17-member family represents exceptional investment in multi-jurisdictional protection and signals the highest-priority technological asset in Del Monte's historical patent estate. From an IP valuation standpoint, family size remains one of the most reliable quantitative proxies for assignee-assessed commercial value \u2014 and Del Monte's largest families in A23B (food preservation) and C12N (plant biotechnology) almost certainly represent the company's most commercially impactful historical innovations.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"cg\">\r\n <div class=\"cc\">\r\n <div class=\"cc-title\">Technology Overview by Assignee: Del Monte's Corporate Entity IP Ecosystem and Subsidiary Innovation Architecture<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"cc-sub\">Patent document count by assignee entity \u2014 revealing the corporate structure, historical divestitures, and strategic R&D focus across Del Monte's IP ecosystem<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"fb\">\r\n <label>Sort:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"asS\" onchange=\"buildAssignee()\">\r\n <option value=\"desc\">Highest First<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"asc\">Lowest First<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <label> | Show Top:<\/label>\r\n <select id=\"asT\" onchange=\"buildAssignee()\">\r\n <option value=\"8\" selected>Top 8<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"10\">Top 10<\/option>\r\n <option value=\"6\">Top 6<\/option>\r\n <\/select>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"chart-wrap\"><canvas id=\"assigneeChart\" height=\"300\"><\/canvas><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ib\">\r\n <h3>Corporate IP Ecosystem Analysis: How Del Monte's Brand Fragmentation and Divestiture History Shaped Its Assignee Architecture<\/h3>\r\n <p>The assignee distribution within Del Monte's patent portfolio is among the most informationally rich dimensions of the entire landscape analysis \u2014 directly mapping the company's complex corporate history of mergers, divestitures, brand splits, and geographic spin-offs onto its intellectual property ownership record. <strong>DEL MONTE (core entity \u2014 148 documents, 44.4%)<\/strong> dominates the portfolio and represents the historical US canned goods and branded food products entity, encompassing filings from the 1960s through the early 2000s across food preservation, packaging, and ingredient technology. This core entity's IP concentration is consistent with Del Monte's historical position as a vertically integrated cannery-to-consumer brand.<\/p>\r\n <p><strong>DEL MONTE FRESH PRODUCE (32 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 now operating as Fresh Del Monte Produce \u2014 represents the fresh fruit and produce division spun off in 1997, with filings concentrated in post-harvest treatment, fresh produce packaging, and modified atmosphere technology for extending the shelf life of fresh pineapples, bananas, and specialty produce. <strong>DEL MONTE PHILIPPINES (14 documents)<\/strong> captures the Philippines operations' IP contributions, including collaborative research with the University of San Agustin on plant-derived bioactive compounds \u2014 a distinctive pairing that reflects Del Monte Philippines' dual role as both a commercial production entity and an agri-food R&D partner to Philippine academic institutions.<\/p>\r\n <p><strong>MANN PACKING (10 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 the fresh-cut vegetables company acquired by Del Monte Foods in 2018 \u2014 contributes specialty produce processing and packaging IP. <strong>DEL MET (10 documents)<\/strong> reflects Del Monte's historical metalworking and can manufacturing subsidiary, with a portfolio concentrated in B21D (can body and end manufacture) filings. The presence of <strong>MEOW MIX (7 documents)<\/strong> \u2014 the pet food brand once owned by Del Monte Foods \u2014 captures the pet food era's innovation in companion animal nutrition formulation. This multi-entity assignee landscape is a corporate history in miniature, tracing Del Monte's evolution from a single branded food company into an ecosystem of legally distinct but commercially related food and agriculture entities.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:44px;\">\r\n <div class=\"sec-title\">Spotlight: 4 Recent Unique Patents from Del Monte's Active Innovation Pipeline<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"pt-grid\">\r\n\r\n <div class=\"pt\">\r\n <div class=\"pt-num\">USPP37193 P2<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"pt-class\">A01H-006\/22 \u2013 New Plant Varieties<\/div>\r\n <p class=\"pt-desc\">A newly granted US plant patent for a proprietary pineapple variety developed by Del Monte International \u2014 the most recent grant in the portfolio. This filing is part of Del Monte's ongoing investment in developing and protecting exclusive tropical fruit varieties with superior flavor profiles, extended shelf life, pest resistance, and commercial yield characteristics that differentiate its branded fresh pineapple products in global retail markets.<\/p>\r\n <div class=\"pt-meta\">\r\n <div>Priority: <span>2025-01-27<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Published: <span>2026-01-06<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Status: <span>GRANTED<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Assignee: <span>DEL MONTE INTL<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"pt\">\r\n <div class=\"pt-num\">USPP36777 P2<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"pt-class\">A01H-005\/08 \u2013 Fruit Plant Varieties<\/div>\r\n <p class=\"pt-desc\">A granted US plant patent covering a novel pineapple cultivar developed through Del Monte International's proprietary plant breeding program. This patent protects a new fruit plant variety with distinct agronomic and organoleptic characteristics \u2014 a key instrument in Del Monte's strategy to maintain exclusive commercial advantage in the premium fresh pineapple market segment against competing growers and fresh produce distributors.<\/p>\r\n <div class=\"pt-meta\">\r\n <div>Priority: <span>2024-09-24<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Published: <span>2025-07-01<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Status: <span>GRANTED<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Assignee: <span>DEL MONTE INTL<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"pt\">\r\n <div class=\"pt-num\">CA3234220 A1<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"pt-class\">B65D-005\/42 \u2013 Packaging Containers<\/div>\r\n <p class=\"pt-desc\">A Canadian patent application for an innovative cardboard container design \u2014 part of Del Monte International's investment in sustainable and consumer-friendly packaging architecture. This packaging innovation addresses the global regulatory and consumer-driven demand for reduced plastic packaging, featuring novel structural configurations that enhance product protection, portion control, and retail display appeal while supporting Del Monte's environmental sustainability commitments.<\/p>\r\n <div class=\"pt-meta\">\r\n <div>Priority: <span>2023-04-05<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Published: <span>2025-06-18<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Status: <span>PENDING<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Assignee: <span>DEL MONTE INTL<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"pt\">\r\n <div class=\"pt-num\">AEP6001258\/2021 A1<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"pt-class\">A61K-036\/00 \u2013 Medicinal Plant Preparations<\/div>\r\n <p class=\"pt-desc\">A UAE patent application filed by Del Monte Philippines in collaboration with the University of San Agustin, covering plant-derived bioactive compound preparations with potential therapeutic applications. This pioneering collaborative filing signals Del Monte Philippines' strategic expansion into the functional food and nutraceutical space \u2014 leveraging tropical plant biodiversity and academic research partnerships to develop novel health-forward ingredient technologies from pineapple and related tropical fruit sources.<\/p>\r\n <div class=\"pt-meta\">\r\n <div>Priority: <span>2020-12-09<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Published: <span>2024-12-16<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Status: <span>PENDING<\/span><\/div>\r\n <div>Assignee: <span>DEL MONTE PH \/ UNIV. SAN AGUSTIN<\/span><\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"traj\">\r\n <h2>Innovation Trajectory: Del Monte's Century of IP Evolution & Future Technology Strategy Outlook<\/h2>\r\n\r\n <div class=\"phases\">\r\n <div class=\"phase\">\r\n <div class=\"ph-lbl\">Phase 1: Canning & Preservation (1916\u20131960)<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ph-txt\">Foundational food preservation chemistry, thermal processing, acidification, and metallic container design. Establishing the industrial canning technology IP that defined Del Monte's first century of commercial success.<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"phase\">\r\n <div class=\"ph-lbl\">Phase 2: Diversification Surge (1961\u20131990)<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ph-txt\">Peak filing activity (33 patents in 1986). Expansion into transgenic plant technology (C12N), biological pesticides (A01N), frozen foods (A23G), and pet food (A23K) \u2014 reflecting Del Monte's conglomerate-era diversification strategy under RJR Nabisco ownership.<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"phase\">\r\n <div class=\"ph-lbl\">Phase 3: Restructuring & Focus (1991\u20132015)<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ph-txt\">Corporate spin-offs (Fresh Del Monte 1997), divestitures, and declining filing volume. IP strategy narrows to core competencies: fresh produce packaging, canned food formulations, and plant variety development for pineapple and specialty produce.<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <div class=\"phase\">\r\n <div class=\"ph-lbl\">Phase 4: Biotech & Sustainability (2016\u2013Present)<\/div>\r\n <div class=\"ph-txt\">Renewed focus on plant variety patents (A01H), sustainable packaging (B65D), nutraceuticals (A61K), and academic research partnerships in the Philippines. Positioning Del Monte International as a precision agriculture and functional food innovator.<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <p>The innovation trajectory of Del Monte, as revealed through this comprehensive patent landscape analysis, is the story of a company whose intellectual property history mirrors its extraordinary corporate journey \u2014 from a pioneering 20th-century industrial cannery through conglomerate diversification and fragmentation, to a refocused 21st-century agri-food enterprise investing in the convergence of plant biotechnology, sustainable packaging, and functional food ingredients. The portfolio's century-long span captures this evolution with remarkable fidelity: each decade's filing patterns reflecting the strategic priorities, ownership structure, and technology frontiers of its era.<\/p>\r\n <p>The current trajectory is clearly defined by two converging innovation streams. The first is <strong>plant variety protection<\/strong> \u2014 Del Monte International's aggressive programme of pineapple variety development, generating a series of US plant patents for proprietary cultivars that deliver measurable advantages in flavor, shelf life, yield, and pest resistance. These plant variety patents represent Del Monte International's most commercially impactful current IP strategy \u2014 protecting the biological foundation of its premium fresh pineapple franchise against competitors who lack access to the same proprietary genetics. The second stream is <strong>sustainable packaging innovation<\/strong> \u2014 a response to the tidal wave of regulatory and consumer pressure on single-use plastics and conventional food packaging, with Del Monte's recent B65D filings reflecting design innovation in cardboard-based and reduced-plastic container architectures.<\/p>\r\n <p>Looking forward, the 10 pending patent applications currently in prosecution \u2014 combined with the pattern of recent plant biotechnology and nutraceutical filings in collaboration with Philippine academic partners \u2014 suggest that Del Monte's next innovation frontier will be defined by the intersection of tropical plant biodiversity and functional food science. The University of San Agustin collaboration and the UAE\/US pending applications in plant-derived bioactive compounds signal a strategic intent to position Del Monte Philippines as both a commercial food producer and a source of novel, scientifically validated functional ingredients with applications in the rapidly growing global nutraceutical and health food markets. For IP professionals, food technology investors, and competitive intelligence analysts, monitoring Del Monte's pending prosecution pipeline will provide early intelligence on this emerging strategic direction.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"contact\">\r\n For inquiries regarding customized patent landscape reports, competitive IP intelligence, or white-space analysis in the tobacco technology or adjacent sectors, please contact IIPRD at <a href=\"mailto:info@iiprd.com\">info@iiprd.com<\/a> or through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iiprd.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.iiprd.com<\/a>.\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\r\n <strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> This article is published for informational and exemplary representation purposes only, based on publicly available patent databases and information. 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