Where does Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC ranks #2,109 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 Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC hold?

Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC holds 187 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 12 technology areas.

What is Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC's Innovation Score?

Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC has an Innovation Score of 42.1 out of 100 (top 31% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC focus on?

Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC's top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 151 patents, ranking #266 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 12 CPC subclasses total.

Is Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC's recent grant velocity is -75% 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 Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC's patents?

Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC's patents average 16.7 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 Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC 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

Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 187 granted patents across 12 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: H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Go ranks #2,109 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 187 patents across 12 technology areas.

#2,109
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 31%
by Innovation Score (42.1/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -75%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2109 · US Corporation #2,109 · 187 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 187 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,109/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Breville Pty
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 12 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -75% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Breville Pty Limited (±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 Go’s 42.1 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 18.1 pts (43%) Velocity 1.7 pts (4%) Breadth 12.2 pts (29%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (24%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Aware · near

42
b box for kids… · near

42
Go Daddy Operating · this assignee

42
Kathrein-werke KG · near

42
Metabolon · near

42
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Go's Innovation Score is 42.1/100 (top 31% 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 Go?

Each dot is one of Go’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). Go’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Go's grants concentrate

Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 12 CPC subclasses with 80.7% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2017 (37 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Go sits between Visteon Global Technologies, Inc. and Sears Brands, L.L.C..

Go's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC moved from 54 to 14 grants (0.26x 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 #3,032. See the growth leaderboard.

Visteon Global

188
Widex A/S

188
Walker Edison Fur…

188
Breville Pty

187
KMW

187
Landis+GYR Innova…

187
Lumus

187
Sears Brands L L C

187
Go Daddy Operating ◀

187

What this shows Go holds 187 patents at rank #2,109, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Go

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,109 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Go, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Go ranks #266 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (42 here).

Aware, Inc. 42 Kathrein-werke KG 42 b.box for kids developments Pty Ltd 42 Metabolon, Inc. 42

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.7 here).

Optum, Inc. 16.7 avg Acacia Communications, Inc. 16.7 avg Sercel, Inc 16.7 avg Steelcase Inc. 16.7 avg

Go's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

42 Top 31% higher than 69% 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.

View data table

Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	10.2%
2016	27	14.4%
2017	37	19.8%
2018	31	16.6%
2019	32	17.1%
2020	17	9.1%
2021	5	2.7%
2022	10	5.3%
2023	3	1.6%
2024	1	0.5%
2025partial year	5	2.7%

Which technologies does Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 151

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 115

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 55

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 5

H04B - Transmission 2

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 2

H04M - Telephonic Communication 2

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

G09C - Ciphering OR Deciphering Apparatus FOR Cryptographic OR Other Purposes Involving THE Need FOR Secrecy 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 1

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 1

Top 12 of 12 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

Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC's lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 80.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #2,109 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC against Visteon Global Technologies, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.1/100 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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