Where does Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. ranks #2,144 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 Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. hold?

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. holds 184 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 14 technology areas.

What is Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 51.9 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%).

What technology areas does Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. focus on?

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s top technology area is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication) with 137 patents, ranking #290 of 8,956 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 14 CPC subclasses total.

Is Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is +45% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s patents?

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s patents average 19.4 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 Live Nation Entertainment, 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

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 184 granted patents across 14 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).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Live ranks #2,144 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 184 patents across 14 technology areas.

#2,144
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.9/100): 19.4
avg claims per patent: +45%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2144 · US Corporation #2,144 · 184 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 184 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,144/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH ETH Zurich
CPC-FOCUS H04L · 14 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +45% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: ETH Zurich (±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 Live’s 51.9 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 18.0 pts (35%) Velocity 8.9 pts (17%) Breadth 13.2 pts (25%) Claim depth 11.7 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Live Nation… · this assignee

52
Mitsubishi Heavy… · near

52
Victoria Link · near

52
Hulu · near

52
J C Bamford Excavators · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Live's Innovation Score is 51.9/100 (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 Live?

Each dot is one of Live’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). Live’s own 19.4 claims/patent is ABOVE the 11.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Live's grants concentrate

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 14 CPC subclasses with 74.5% of grants classified under H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (26 grants) versus a trough of 3 in 2015. By volume, Live sits between ETH Zurich and Solaero Technologies Corp..

Live's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. moved from 53 to 71 grants (1.34x 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 #596. See the growth leaderboard.

ETH Zurich

184
Foundation OF Soo…

184
Gates

184
Keio University

184
Noritz

184
Pioneer Square Br…

184
SCA Hygiene Produ…

184
Solaero

184
Live Nation Enter… ◀

184

What this shows Live holds 184 patents at rank #2,144, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Live

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,144 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Live, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information), Live ranks #290 of 8,956 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems, Ltd. 52 Victoria Link Ltd. 52 J. C. Bamford Excavators Limited 52 Hulu, LLC 52

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.4 here).

Innovative Technology Lab Co., Ltd. 19.4 avg Hydro-Gear Limited Partnership 19.4 avg Eagle Technology, LLC 19.4 avg TrueCar, Inc. 19.4 avg

Live'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

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	3	1.6%
2016	9	4.9%
2017	20	10.9%
2018	18	9.8%
2019	21	11.4%
2020	19	10.3%
2021	13	7.1%
2022	23	12.5%
2023	22	12.0%
2024	26	14.1%
2025partial year	10	5.4%

Which technologies does Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. patent most?

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 137

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 119

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 100

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 60

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 21

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 17

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 13

G07B - Ticket-issuing APPARATUS; Fare-registering APPARATUS; Franking Apparatus 12

G07F - Coin-freed OR Like Apparatus 4

G01S - Radio DIRECTION-FINDING; Radio NAVIGATION; Determining Distance OR Velocity BY USE OF Radio WAVES; Locating OR Presence-detecting BY USE OF THE Reflection OR Reradiation OF Radio WAVES; Analogous Arrangements Using Other Waves 4

A61M - Devices FOR Introducing Media Into, OR Onto, THE Body ; Devices FOR Transducing Body Media OR FOR Taking Media From THE Body ; Devices FOR Producing OR Ending Sleep OR Stupor 4

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 4

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

Top 14 of 14 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04L (Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication), 74.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04L
Ranked #2,144 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. against ETH Zurich, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.