Where does The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd ranks #926 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 The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd hold?

The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd holds 482 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 158 technology areas.

What is The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd's Innovation Score?

The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd has an Innovation Score of 64.5 out of 100 (top 2% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd's recent grant velocity is +43% 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 The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd's patents?

The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd's patents average 15.2 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.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView Foreign Corporation

The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd

Q: What technology areas does The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd focus on?

The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd's top technology area is G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars) with 307 patents, ranking #1 of 92 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 158 CPC subclasses total.

Q: How is the The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd 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 PatentsView assignee record - 482 granted patents across 158 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: G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, The ranks #926 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 482 patents across 158 technology areas.

#926
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 2%
by Innovation Score (64.5/100): 15.2
avg claims per patent: +43%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R926 · Foreign Corporation #926 · 482 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 482 grants
TOP-DECILE #926/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Sika Technology
CPC-WIDE G04B · 158 areas
INNOV-STRONG 64.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.2 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +43% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Sika Technology AG (±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 The’s 64.5 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 21.3 pts (33%) Velocity 9.0 pts (14%) Breadth 25.0 pts (39%) Claim depth 9.1 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
National Institute… · near

64
Southeast University · near

64
The Swatch Group… · this assignee

64
Uber · near

64
Research & Business… · near

64
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows The's Innovation Score is 64.5/100 (top 2% 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 The?

Each dot is one of The’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). The’s own 15.2 claims/patent is at or below the 16.5 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

How The's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd received 264 grants versus 184 in 2015–2019 (+43% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 65 grants and bottomed in 2015 at 27. Lead class G04B accounts for 63.7% of the portfolio across 158 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Atmel Corporation (#922) and The Penn State Research Foundation (#930).

The's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd moved from 130 to 175 grants (1.35x 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 #585. See the growth leaderboard.

Atmel

483
Pioneer

483
Toyota Motor Nort…

483
Sika Technology

482
The Swatch Group… ◀

482
Corning Research…

481
Conocophillips

481
Schweitzer Engine…

480
The Penn State Re…

480

What this shows The holds 482 patents at rank #926, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near The

By rank, the assignees closest to #926 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for The, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR Watches), The ranks #1 of 92 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (64 here).

Southeast University 64 Uber Technologies, Inc. 64 National Institute of Clean-and-Low-Carbon Energy 64 Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University 64

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (15.2 here).

Owen Mumford Limited 15.2 avg L&L Candle Company, LLC 15.2 avg Toast, Inc. 15.2 avg Leica Biosystems Melbourne PTY Ltd 15.2 avg

The's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

64 Top 2% higher than 98% 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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The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	27	5.6%
2016	37	7.7%
2017	37	7.7%
2018	42	8.7%
2019	41	8.5%
2020	35	7.3%
2021	54	11.2%
2022	50	10.4%
2023	65	13.5%
2024	60	12.4%
2025partial year	34	7.1%

Which technologies does The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd patent most?

G04B - Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars 307

G04C - Electromechanical Clocks OR Watches 122

G04G - Electronic Time-pieces 72

A44C - Personal Adornments, e.g. JEWELLERY; Coins 65

G04D - Apparatus OR Tools Specially Designed FOR Making OR Maintaining Clocks OR Watches 64

C22C - Alloys 28

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 26

C25D - Processes FOR THE Electrolytic OR Electrophoretic Production OF COATINGS; ELECTROFORMING; Apparatus Therefor 20

Y02P - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN THE Production OR Processing OF Goods 19

C23C - Coating Metallic MATERIAL; Coating Material With Metallic MATERIAL; Surface Treatment OF Metallic Material BY Diffusion Into THE Surface, BY Chemical Conversion OR SUBSTITUTION; Coating BY Vacuum Evaporation, BY Sputtering, BY ION Implantation OR BY Chemical Vapour Deposition, IN General 18

Y02E - Reduction OF Greenhouse GAS [GHG] Emissions, Related TO Energy Generation, Transmission OR Distribution 17

G02B - Optical Elements, Systems OR Apparatus 16

H04B - Transmission 16

H01M - Processes OR Means, e.g. Batteries, FOR THE Direct Conversion OF Chemical Energy Into Electrical Energy 15

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 15

Top 15 of 158 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

The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd's lead technology class is G04B (Mechanically-driven Clocks OR WATCHES; Mechanical Parts OF Clocks OR Watches IN GENERAL; Time Pieces Using THE Position OF THE SUN, Moon OR Stars), 63.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G04B
Ranked #926 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd against Atmel Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 64.5/100 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

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