Where does Skullcandy, Inc. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Skullcandy, Inc. ranks #3,859 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 Skullcandy, Inc. hold?

Skullcandy, Inc. holds 94 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 25 technology areas.

What is Skullcandy, Inc.'s Innovation Score?

Skullcandy, Inc. has an Innovation Score of 43.8 out of 100 (top 27% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Skullcandy, Inc.'s recent grant velocity is -63% 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 Skullcandy, Inc.'s patents?

Skullcandy, Inc.'s patents average 11.4 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 Skullcandy, 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

Skullcandy, Inc.

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

Skullcandy, Inc.'s top technology area is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems) with 49 patents. Grants appear in 25 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 94 granted patents across 25 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: H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Skullcandy ranks #3,859 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 94 patents across 25 technology areas.

#3,859
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 27%
by Innovation Score (43.8/100): 11.4
avg claims per patent: -63%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3859 · US Corporation #3,859 · 94 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 94 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,859/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Riverbed Technology
CPC-FOCUS H04R · 25 areas
INNOV-PAR 43.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 11.4 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -63% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Riverbed Technology 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.

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
DataRobot · near

44
Gaudio LAB · near

44
Skullcandy · this assignee

44
Wiab Water Innovatio… · near

44
Aptar Radolfzell · near

44
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Skullcandy's Innovation Score is 43.8/100 (top 27% 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.

Where Skullcandy's grants concentrate

Skullcandy, Inc. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 25 CPC subclasses with 52.1% of grants classified under H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (18 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, Skullcandy sits between Riverbed Technology LLC and Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd..

Skullcandy's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Skullcandy, Inc. moved from 23 to 12 grants (0.52x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Riverbed Technolo…

94
Sanyo Chemical In…

94
SUN Yat-sen Unive…

94
Shanghai Huali In…

94
Soundhound

94
Sportsmedia Techn…

94
Technische Univer…

94
Toyo Kohan

94
Skullcandy ◀

94

What this shows Skullcandy holds 94 patents at rank #3,860, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Skullcandy

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,860 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04R (Loudspeakers)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Skullcandy, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above).

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (44 here).

Gaudio LAB, Inc. 44 DataRobot, Inc. 44 Wiab Water Innovation AB 44 Aptar Radolfzell GmbH 44

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (11.4 here).

National University Corporation Kagawa University 11.4 avg Lintec Corporation 11.4 avg Sagem Defense Securite 11.4 avg Coravin, Inc. 11.4 avg

Skullcandy's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

44 Top 27% higher than 73% 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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Skullcandy, Inc. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	8	8.5%
2016	18	19.1%
2017	13	13.8%
2018	18	19.1%
2019	10	10.6%
2020	6	6.4%
2021	7	7.4%
2022	6	6.4%
2023	5	5.3%
2024	1	1.1%
2025partial year	2	2.1%

Which technologies does Skullcandy, Inc. patent most?

H04R - Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems 49

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 9

H04S - Stereophonic Systems 9

G10K - Sound-producing DEVICES; Methods OR Devices FOR Protecting Against, OR FOR Damping, Noise OR Other Acoustic Waves IN GENERAL; Acoustics NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 5

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 4

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 4

H03G - Control OF Amplification 3

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 3

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 3

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 3

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 2

H02J - Circuit Arrangements OR Systems FOR Supplying OR Distributing Electric POWER; Systems FOR Storing Electric Energy 2

G02C - SPECTACLES; Sunglasses OR Goggles Insofar AS They Have THE Same Features AS SPECTACLES; Contact Lenses 1

H04M - Telephonic Communication 1

Top 15 of 25 technology areas

Where it ranks

Overall rank by patents

#3,859

of 49,997 tracked assignees

Innovation Score

43.8 out of 100

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Skullcandy, Inc.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Skullcandy, Inc.'s lead technology class is H04R (Loudspeakers, Microphones, Gramophone Pick-ups OR Like Acoustic Electromechanical TRANSDUCERS; Deaf-aid SETS; Public Address Systems), 52.1% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04R
Ranked #3,859 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Skullcandy, Inc. against Riverbed Technology LLC, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 43.8/100 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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