Where does Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. ranks #8,186 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 Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. hold?

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. holds 39 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 22 technology areas.

What is Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 40.8 out of 100 (top 35% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +333% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.'s patents?

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.'s patents average 12.3 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 Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. 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

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. focus on?

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.'s top technology area is A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment) with 12 patents, ranking #104 of 1,021 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 22 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 39 granted patents across 22 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, Dick's ranks #8,186 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 39 patents across 22 technology areas.

#8,186
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 35%
by Innovation Score (40.8/100): 12.3
avg claims per patent: +333%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8186 · US Corporation #8,186 · 39 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 39 grants
UPPER-Q #8,186/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Deep Science
CPC-FOCUS A63B · 22 areas
INNOV-PAR 40.8/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +333% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Deep Science, LLC (±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 Dick's’s 40.8 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 12.7 pts (31%) Velocity 4.1 pts (10%) Breadth 16.6 pts (41%) Claim depth 7.4 pts (18%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Dick's Sporting Goods · this assignee

41
Fallbrook Intellectu… · near

41
Knox Associates · near

41
Sanyo Special Steel · near

41
Selig Sealing Products · near

41
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Dick's's Innovation Score is 40.8/100 (top 35% 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 Dick's?

Each dot is one of Dick's’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). Dick's’s own 12.3 claims/patent is at or below the 12.4 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Dick's's grants concentrate

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 22 CPC subclasses with 30.8% of grants classified under A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment). Peak complete grant year is 2021 (13 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Dick's sits between Doheny EYE Institute and Eternal Plant Boijl B.V..

Dick's's three-year grant acceleration

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 18 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Doheny EYE Instit…

39
Dongjin Semichem

39
Dsm&t

39
Deep Science

39
E-link Plastic &…

39
Eight Holdings

39
Espressif Systems…

39
Eternal Plant Boi…

39
Dick's Sporting G… ◀

39

What this shows Dick's holds 39 patents at rank #8,189, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Dick's

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,189 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Dick's, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training), Dick's ranks #104 of 1,021 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (41 here).

Sanyo Special Steel Co., Ltd. 41 Selig Sealing Products, Inc. 41 Knox Associates, Inc. 41 Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC 41

Dick's's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

41 Top 35% higher than 65% 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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Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	2.6%
2017	1	2.6%
2018	1	2.6%
2019	3	7.7%
2020	2	5.1%
2021	13	33.3%
2022	4	10.3%
2023	2	5.1%
2024	5	12.8%
2025partial year	7	17.9%

Which technologies does Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. patent most?

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 12

A42B - HATS; Head Coverings 3

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 3

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 3

A45F - Travelling OR Camp EQUIPMENT: Sacks OR Packs Carried ON THE Body 2

F41J - TARGETS; Target RANGES; Bullet Catchers 2

B63H - Marine Propulsion OR Steering 2

E04H - Buildings OR Like Structures FOR Particular PURPOSES; Swimming OR Splash Baths OR POOLS; MASTS; FENCING; Tents OR Canopies, IN General 2

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 1

A47J - Kitchen EQUIPMENT; Coffee MILLS; Spice MILLS; Apparatus FOR Making Beverages 1

A47G - Household OR Table Equipment 1

B65D - Containers FOR Storage OR Transport OF Articles OR Materials, e.g. Bags, Barrels, Bottles, Boxes, Cans, Cartons, Crates, Drums, Jars, Tanks, Hoppers, Forwarding CONTAINERS; Accessories, Closures, OR Fittings THEREFOR; Packaging ELEMENTS; Packages 1

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 1

A63D - Bowling Games, e.g. Skittles, Bocce OR BOWLS; Installations THEREFOR; Bagatelle OR Similar GAMES; Billiards 1

Top 15 of 22 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

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.'s lead technology class is A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment), 30.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63B
Ranked #8,186 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. against Doheny EYE Institute, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 40.8/100 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

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

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