Where does Fossil Group, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fossil Group, Inc. ranks #13,428 of 50,000 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Fossil Group, Inc. hold?

Fossil Group, Inc. holds 22 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2024, spanning 20 technology areas.

What is Fossil Group, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Fossil Group, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 35.8 out of 100 (top 48% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Fossil Group, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fossil Group, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -62% 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 Fossil Group, Inc.'s patents?

Fossil Group, Inc.'s patents average 10.7 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 Fossil Group, 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

Fossil Group, Inc.

Q: What technology areas does Fossil Group, Inc. focus on?

Fossil Group, Inc.'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 5 patents. Grants appear in 20 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 22 granted patents across 20 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2024. 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, Fossil ranks #13,428 of 50,000 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 22 patents across 20 technology areas.

#13,428
of 50,000 US assignees by volume: Top 48%
by Innovation Score (35.8/100): 10.7
avg claims per patent: -62%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R13428 · US Corporation #13,428 · 22 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 22 grants
MID-PACK #13,428/50,000
PHOTO-FINISH Fellow Industries
CPC-FOCUS G04B · 20 areas
INNOV-THIN 35.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 10.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -62% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Fellow Industries, 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Fossil Group · this assignee

36
3D Lighting Innovati… · lowest

7

What this shows Fossil Group, Inc. stamps GRANTS-SMALL, MID-PACK, PHOTO-FINISH, CPC-FOCUS, INNOV-THIN, CLAIMS-PAR, TYPE-USCORP, VEL-DROP, BOOK-FULL. Volume places it #13,428 of 50,000; Innovation Score 35.8/100 sits in the top 48% of the PatentsView-derived corpus. Closest grant-volume peer on this plate is Fellow Industries, Inc. (±0 grants).

Portfolio overview

Fossil Group, Inc. has been granted 22 US utility patents between 2017 and 2024, placing Fossil Group, Inc. at #13,428 of 50,000 across all assignees tracked by PlainPatent. This portfolio spans 20 distinct Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) subclasses, averaging 10.7 claims per patent with primary concentration in 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). As a US Corporation, Fossil Group, Inc. is one of the more focused assignees in the PatentsView dataset. By volume, Fossil sits between Fellow Industries, Inc. (22 patents, rank #13,426) and Galtronics Corporation Ltd. (22 patents, rank #13,434) - the closest US assignees by grant volume. The composite Innovation Score of 35.8/100 blends portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth into a single comparable measure drawn directly from USPTO PatentsView records.

Grant cadence records the difference between two grant-year windows. Between 2020 and 2024 the company received 6 grants, compared with 16 in the 2015–2019 window, a -62% shift in five-year grant velocity. Both windows cover five complete grant years; the latest PatentsView year is a partial release and is excluded from this comparison, though it still appears in the yearly table and chart below. Grant timing can lag the related application by years, so this comparison does not establish current R&D spending, strategic intent, or a company’s application activity. The US Corporation classification provides context for the assignee record, not a conclusion about its business strategy.

Claim depth and technology breadth describe this aggregate record. Fossil Group, Inc.'s 10.7 average claims per patent is an average count, not a measure of claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk. The record spans 20 CPC subclasses. Combined with portfolio volume, these figures let readers compare the documented grant records of assignees in similar technology classes.

Fellow Industries

22
Finesse Solutions

22
Formosa Saint Jose

22
Forza Silicon

22
Furniture of Amer…

22
Fusion Holdings

22
GACW Incorporated

22
Galtronics

22
Fossil Group ◀

22

What this shows Fossil holds 22 patents at rank #13,430, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fossil

By rank, the assignees closest to #13,430 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches)

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

Fossil's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

36 Top 48% higher than 52% of 50,000 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2024

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Fossil Group, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	9	40.9%
2018	6	27.3%
2019	1	4.5%
2020	3	13.6%
2021	1	4.5%
2022	1	4.5%
2024	1	4.5%

Which technologies does Fossil Group, Inc. 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 5

A44C - PERSONAL ADORNMENTS, e.g. JEWELLERY; COINS 4

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION 3

H02J - CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY 2

G04G - ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES 2

G04C - ELECTROMECHANICAL CLOCKS OR WATCHES 2

B23C - MILLING 1

G05B - CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS 1

B22F - WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER ; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER 1

G09B - EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS 1

A63B - APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT 1

F16G - BELTS, CABLES, OR ROPES, PREDOMINANTLY USED FOR DRIVING PURPOSES; CHAINS; FITTINGS PREDOMINANTLY USED THEREFOR 1

H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS 1

A43B - CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF FOOTWEAR; PARTS OF FOOTWEAR 1

H05K - PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS 1

Top 15 of 20 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#13,428

of 50,000 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

35.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

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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