Where does Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II ranks #1,397 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 Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II hold?

Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II holds 302 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 1 technology areas.

What is Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II's Innovation Score?

Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II has an Innovation Score of 44.3 out of 100 (top 26% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II focus on?

Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II's top technology area is A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear) with 12 patents, ranking #30 of 317 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 1 CPC subclasses total.

Is Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II's recent grant velocity is +112% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II's patents?

Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II's patents average 1.8 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 Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II 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

Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 302 granted patents across 1 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: A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Skechers ranks #1,397 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 302 patents across 1 technology areas.

#1,397
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 26%
by Innovation Score (44.3/100): 1.8
avg claims per patent: +112%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1397 · US Corporation #1,397 · 302 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-SPARSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 302 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,397/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hall Labs
CPC-NARROW A43B · 1 areas
INNOV-PAR 44.3/100
CLAIMS-SPARSE 1.8 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +112% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hall Labs 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 Skechers’s 44.3 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 19.7 pts (44%) Velocity 20.0 pts (45%) Breadth 3.5 pts (8%) Claim depth 1.1 pts (2%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Neovasc Tiara · near

44
Assa Abloy Access… · near

44
Entrust Datacard · near

44
New-Tec Integration… · near

44
Skechers U II · this assignee

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Skechers's Innovation Score is 44.3/100 (top 26% 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 Skechers?

Each dot is one of Skechers’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). Skechers’s own 1.8 claims/patent is at or below the 14.8 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Skechers's grants concentrate

Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II is a focused PatentsView assignee: 1 CPC subclasses with 4% of grants classified under A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (83 grants) versus a trough of 9 in 2022. By volume, Skechers sits between Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd. and Voith Patent GmbH.

Skechers's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II moved from 38 to 147 grants (3.87x 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 #50. See the growth leaderboard.

Hitachi Industria…

302
Hall Labs

302
Neoperl

302
Owens Corning Int…

302
Truist Bank

302
Skechers U II ◀

302
Autoliv ASP

301
Cloudflare

301
Voith Patent

301

What this shows Skechers holds 302 patents at rank #1,397, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Skechers

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,397 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A43B (Characteristic Features OF Footwear)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Skechers, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A43B (Characteristic Features OF Footwear), Skechers ranks #30 of 317 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

New-Tec Integration (Xiamen) Co., Ltd. 44 Entrust Datacard Corporation 44 Assa Abloy Access and Egress Hardware Group, Inc. 44 Neovasc Tiara Inc. 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (1.8 here).

Klemm + Sohn GMBH & Co. KG 1.8 avg Iris Ohyama Inc. 1.8 avg Tenacious Holdings, Inc. 1.8 avg Richemont International SA 1.8 avg

Skechers's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 26% higher than 74% 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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Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	15	5.0%
2016	17	5.6%
2017	17	5.6%
2018	19	6.3%
2019	13	4.3%
2020	14	4.6%
2021	11	3.6%
2022	9	3.0%
2023	55	18.2%
2024	83	27.5%
2025partial year	49	16.2%

Which technologies does Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II patent most?

A43B - Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear 12

Top 1 of 1 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

Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II's lead technology class is A43B (Characteristic Features OF FOOTWEAR; Parts OF Footwear), 4% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A43B
Ranked #1,397 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II against Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 44.3/100 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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