Where does Strategic Sports Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Strategic Sports Limited ranks #18,148 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 Strategic Sports Limited hold?

Strategic Sports Limited holds 16 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2023, spanning 5 technology areas.

What is Strategic Sports Limited's Innovation Score?

Strategic Sports Limited has an Innovation Score of 33.8 out of 100 (46th percentile of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Strategic Sports Limited focus on?

Strategic Sports Limited's top technology area is A42B (HATS; Head Coverings) with 8 patents, ranking #36 of 278 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 5 CPC subclasses total.

Is Strategic Sports Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Strategic Sports Limited's recent grant velocity is -40% 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 Strategic Sports Limited's patents?

Strategic Sports Limited's patents average 8.4 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 Strategic Sports Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

Strategic Sports Limited

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 16 granted patents across 5 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2023. 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: A42B (HATS; Head Coverings).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Strategic ranks #18,148 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 16 patents across 5 technology areas.

#18,148
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: 46th percentile
by Innovation Score (33.8/100): 8.4
avg claims per patent: -40%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R18148 · Foreign Corporation #18,148 · 16 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-PAR · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-DOWN · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 16 grants
MID-PACK #18,148/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH SPX Fitness
CPC-NARROW A42B · 5 areas
INNOV-THIN 33.8/100
CLAIMS-PAR 8.4 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-DOWN -40% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: SPX Fitness, Inc. (±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 Strategic’s 33.8 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 9.8 pts (29%) Velocity 11.1 pts (33%) Breadth 7.9 pts (23%) Claim depth 5.0 pts (15%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

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Strategic Sports · this assignee

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3D Lighting… · lowest

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What this shows Strategic's Innovation Score is 33.8/100 (46th percentile 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 Strategic?

Each dot is one of Strategic’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). Strategic’s own 8.4 claims/patent is at or below the 14.2 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Strategic's grants concentrate

Strategic Sports Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 5 CPC subclasses with 50% of grants classified under A42B (HATS; Head Coverings). Peak complete grant year is 2018 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2015. By volume, Strategic sits between SPX Fitness, Inc. and SVM Schultz Verwaltungs-GmbH & Co. KG.

Strategic's three-year grant acceleration

Strategic Sports Limited shows 5 grants in 2022–2024 against only 3 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

SPX Fitness

16
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16
Stone Lock Global

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16
Supfina Grieshabe…

16
Suture Ease

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16
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Strategic Sports ◀

16

What this shows Strategic holds 16 patents at rank #18,108, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Strategic

By rank, the assignees closest to #18,108 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A42B (HATS)

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

Strategic's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

34 46th percentile higher than 46% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2023

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Strategic Sports Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	1	6.3%
2017	2	12.5%
2018	5	31.3%
2019	2	12.5%
2020	1	6.3%
2022	2	12.5%
2023	3	18.8%

Which technologies does Strategic Sports Limited patent most?

A42B - HATS; Head Coverings 8

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 2

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 2

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 1

A42C - Manufacturing OR Trimming Head Coverings, e.g. Hats 1

Top 5 of 5 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Strategic Sports Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Strategic Sports Limited's lead technology class is A42B (HATS; Head Coverings), 50% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A42B
Ranked #18,148 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Strategic Sports Limited against SPX Fitness, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 33.8/100 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

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.