Where does Cartier International AG rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Cartier International AG ranks #1,271 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 Cartier International AG hold?

Cartier International AG holds 332 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 8 technology areas.

What is Cartier International AG's Innovation Score?

Cartier International AG has an Innovation Score of 38.3 out of 100 (top 41% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Cartier International AG's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Cartier International AG's recent grant velocity is -8% 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 Cartier International AG's patents?

Cartier International AG's patents average 1.5 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 Cartier International AG patent data sourced?

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

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

Cartier International AG

Q: What technology areas does Cartier International AG focus on?

Cartier International AG's top technology area is G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars) with 7 patents, ranking #26 of 92 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 8 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 332 granted patents across 8 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Cartier ranks #1,271 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 332 patents across 8 technology areas.

#1,271
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 41%
by Innovation Score (38.3/100): 1.5
avg claims per patent: -8%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1271 · Foreign Corporation #1,271 · 332 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-FLAT · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 332 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,271/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ICU Medical
CPC-NARROW G04B · 8 areas
INNOV-THIN 38.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.5 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-FLAT -8% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ICU Medical, Inc. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Cartier’s 38.3 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 20.1 pts (52%) Velocity 7.3 pts (19%) Breadth 10.0 pts (26%) Claim depth 0.9 pts (2%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Cartier International · this assignee

38
FibroGen · near

38
IGT Canada Solutions… · near

38
Improbable Worlds · near

38
inMusic Brands · near

38
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Cartier's Innovation Score is 38.3/100 (top 41% 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 Cartier?

Each dot is one of Cartier’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). Cartier’s own 1.5 claims/patent is at or below the 17.3 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Cartier's grants concentrate

Cartier International AG is a focused PatentsView assignee: 8 CPC subclasses with 2.1% of grants classified under G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (67 grants) versus a trough of 9 in 2022. By volume, Cartier sits between Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated and Columbia Insurance Company.

Cartier's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Cartier International AG moved from 82 to 90 grants (1.10x 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 #965. See the growth leaderboard.

Vertex Pharmaceut…

334
Conduent Business…

333
Mentor Graphics

333
Toyo Seikan

333
ICU Medical

332
Soitec

332
Toyobo

332
Cartier Internati… ◀

332
Columbia Insurance

331

What this shows Cartier holds 332 patents at rank #1,271, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Cartier

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,271 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Cartier, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches), Cartier ranks #26 of 92 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (38 here).

IGT Canada Solutions ULC 38 inMusic Brands, Inc. 38 FibroGen, Inc. 38 Improbable Worlds Limited 38

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (1.5 here).

Landscape Forms, Inc. 1.5 avg Christian Dior Couture 1.5 avg SDI Technologies, Inc. 1.5 avg Apparatus LLC 1.5 avg

Cartier's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

38 Top 41% higher than 59% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Cartier International AG patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	22	6.6%
2017	58	17.5%
2018	47	14.2%
2019	29	8.7%
2020	17	5.1%
2021	36	10.8%
2022	9	2.7%
2023	14	4.2%
2024	67	20.2%
2025partial year	33	9.9%

Which technologies does Cartier International AG patent most?

G04B - Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars 7

A44C - Personal Adornments, e.g. JEWELLERY; Coins 7

C03C - Chemical Composition OF Glasses, Glazes OR Vitreous ENAMELS; Surface Treatment OF GLASS; Surface Treatment OF Fibres OR Filaments Made From Glass, Minerals OR SLAGS; Joining Glass TO Glass OR Other Materials 1

B44C - Producing Decorative Effects ; MOSAICS; Tarsia Work ; Paperhanging 1

B44F - Special Designs OR Pictures 1

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 1

G04D - Apparatus OR Tools Specially Designed FOR Making OR Maintaining Clocks OR Watches 1

F16B - Devices FOR Fastening OR Securing Constructional Elements OR Machine Parts Together, e.g. Nails, Bolts, Circlips, Clamps, Clips OR WEDGES; Joints OR Jointing 1

Top 8 of 8 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

Cartier International AG's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Cartier International AG's lead technology class is G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars), 2.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G04B
Ranked #1,271 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Cartier International AG against Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 38.3/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

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

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

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

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

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

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