Where does Callaway Golf Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Callaway Golf Company ranks #643 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 Callaway Golf Company hold?

Callaway Golf Company holds 694 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 42 technology areas.

What is Callaway Golf Company's Innovation Score?

Callaway Golf Company has an Innovation Score of 51.8 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Callaway Golf Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Callaway Golf Company's recent grant velocity is -58% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Callaway Golf Company's patents?

Callaway Golf Company's patents average 8.2 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 Callaway Golf Company patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Callaway Golf Company

Q: What technology areas does Callaway Golf Company focus on?

Callaway Golf Company's top technology area is A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment) with 398 patents, ranking #6 of 1,021 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 42 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 694 granted patents across 42 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Callaway ranks #643 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 694 patents across 42 technology areas.

#643
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.8/100): 8.2
avg claims per patent: -58%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R643 · US Corporation #643 · 694 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 694 grants
TOP-DECILE #643/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CenturyLink…
CPC-WIDE A63B · 42 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -58% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (±1 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 Callaway’s 51.8 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 22.6 pts (44%) Velocity 1.3 pts (3%) Breadth 22.9 pts (44%) Claim depth 4.9 pts (9%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Callaway Golf · this assignee

52
Continuous Composites · near

52
Imperial Innovations · near

52
Teleflex Medical… · near

52
Varjo 0y · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Callaway's Innovation Score is 51.8/100 (top 11% 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 Callaway?

Each dot is one of Callaway’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). Callaway’s own 8.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Callaway's grants concentrate

Callaway Golf Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 42 CPC subclasses with 57.3% of grants classified under A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (115 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2023. By volume, Callaway sits between Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and University of Washington.

Callaway's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Callaway Golf Company moved from 256 to 51 grants (0.20x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #3,095. See the growth leaderboard.

Rutgers the State…

698
Arizona Board of…

696
Centurylink Intel…

695
Cerner Innovation

695
Callaway Golf ◀

694
Cameron Internati…

692
Posco

691
Schneider Electri…

691
University of Was…

691

What this shows Callaway holds 694 patents at rank #643, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Callaway

By rank, the assignees closest to #643 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Callaway, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training), Callaway ranks #6 of 1,021 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Varjo Technologies 0y 52 Teleflex Medical Incorporated 52 Continuous Composites Inc. 52 Imperial Innovations Limited 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (8.2 here).

Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG 8.2 avg Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc. 8.2 avg Meiji Seika Pharma Co., Ltd. 8.2 avg Wapp Tech Corp. 8.2 avg

Callaway's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Callaway Golf Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	76	11.0%
2016	90	13.0%
2017	104	15.0%
2018	115	16.6%
2019	104	15.0%
2020	72	10.4%
2021	80	11.5%
2022	49	7.1%
2023	1	0.1%
2024	1	0.1%
2025partial year	2	0.3%

Which technologies does Callaway Golf Company patent most?

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 398

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 31

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 28

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 27

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 26

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 20

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 17

C01B - Non-metallic ELEMENTS; Compounds THEREOF; ; Metalloids OR Compounds Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclass C01c 17

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 10

B22F - Working Metallic POWDER; Manufacture OF Articles From Metallic POWDER; Making Metallic Powder ; Apparatus OR Devices Specially Adapted FOR Metallic Powder 9

B21K - Making Forged OR Pressed Metal Products, e.g. Horse-shoes, Rivets, Bolts OR Wheels 8

C08G - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained Otherwise Than BY Reactions Only Involving Unsaturated Carbon-to-carbon Bonds 8

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 7

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 7

B22C - Foundry Moulding 6

Top 15 of 42 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

Callaway Golf Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Callaway Golf Company's lead technology class is A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment), 57.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63B
Ranked #643 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Callaway Golf Company against Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.8/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

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Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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