Where does Otter Products, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Otter Products, LLC ranks #1,355 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 Otter Products, LLC hold?

Otter Products, LLC holds 310 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 56 technology areas.

What is Otter Products, LLC's Innovation Score?

Otter Products, LLC has an Innovation Score of 54.7 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Otter Products, LLC focus on?

Otter Products, LLC's top technology area is A45C (PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags) with 104 patents, ranking #1 of 494 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

Is Otter Products, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Otter Products, LLC's recent grant velocity is -72% 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 Otter Products, LLC's patents?

Otter Products, LLC's patents average 12.2 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 Otter Products, 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

Otter Products, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 310 granted patents across 56 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: A45C (PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Otter ranks #1,355 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 310 patents across 56 technology areas.

#1,355
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (54.7/100): 12.2
avg claims per patent: -72%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1355 · US Corporation #1,355 · 310 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 310 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,355/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH CGG Services SAS
CPC-WIDE A45C · 56 areas
INNOV-PAR 54.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 12.2 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -72% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: CGG Services SAS (±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 Otter’s 54.7 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 19.8 pts (36%) Velocity 2.6 pts (5%) Breadth 25.0 pts (46%) Claim depth 7.3 pts (13%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
K2M · near

55
EagleBurgmann… · near

55
Nissan Chemical… · near

55
Otter Products · this assignee

55
Julius Blum · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Otter's Innovation Score is 54.7/100 (top 7% 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 Otter?

Each dot is one of Otter’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). Otter’s own 12.2 claims/patent is at or below the 12.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How Otter's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Otter Products, LLC received 67 grants versus 242 in 2015–2019 (-72% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2016 at 57 grants and bottomed in 2024 at 5. Lead class A45C accounts for 33.5% of the portfolio across 56 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation (#1,351) and Gwangju Institute OF Science AND Technology (#1,359).

Otter's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Otter Products, LLC moved from 83 to 32 grants (0.39x 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 #2,903. See the growth leaderboard.

Mitsubishi Heavy…

311
Marvell Israel (M…

311
CGG Services SAS

310
Cheil Industries

310
Otter Products ◀

310
Advanced Bionics

309
Daio Paper

309
Glory

309
Gwangju Institute…

309

What this shows Otter holds 310 patents at rank #1,355, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Otter

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,355 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A45C (Purses)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Otter, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A45C (Purses), Otter ranks #1 of 494 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd. 55 EagleBurgmann Germany GmbH & Co. KG 55 K2M, Inc. 55 Julius Blum GMBH 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (12.2 here).

AGS LLC 12.2 avg Kookmin University Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation 12.2 avg Zinus Inc. 12.2 avg Avon Products, Inc. 12.2 avg

Otter's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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

Otter Products, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	54	17.4%
2016	57	18.4%
2017	32	10.3%
2018	51	16.5%
2019	48	15.5%
2020	17	5.5%
2021	18	5.8%
2022	12	3.9%
2023	15	4.8%
2024	5	1.6%
2025partial year	1	0.3%

Which technologies does Otter Products, LLC patent most?

A45C - PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags 104

H04B - Transmission 92

H04M - Telephonic Communication 85

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 77

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 52

A45F - Travelling OR Camp EQUIPMENT: Sacks OR Packs Carried ON THE Body 44

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 39

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 25

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 25

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 17

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 16

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 14

F16M - Frames, Casings OR Beds OF Engines, Machines OR Apparatus, NOT Specific TO Engines, Machines OR Apparatus Provided FOR ELSEWHERE; STANDS; Supports 13

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 13

F25D - REFRIGERATORS; Cold ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; Cooling OR Freezing Apparatus NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 11

Top 15 of 56 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

Otter Products, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Otter Products, LLC's lead technology class is A45C (PURSES; LUGGAGE; Hand Carried Bags), 33.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A45C
Ranked #1,355 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Otter Products, LLC against Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 54.7/100 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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