Where does Wilson Sporting Goods Co. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Wilson Sporting Goods Co. ranks #2,520 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 Wilson Sporting Goods Co. hold?

Wilson Sporting Goods Co. holds 155 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 23 technology areas.

What is Wilson Sporting Goods Co.'s Innovation Score?

Wilson Sporting Goods Co. has an Innovation Score of 48.1 out of 100 (top 17% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Wilson Sporting Goods Co.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Wilson Sporting Goods Co.'s recent grant velocity is -30% 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 Wilson Sporting Goods Co.'s patents?

Wilson Sporting Goods Co.'s patents average 16.0 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 Wilson Sporting Goods Co. 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

Wilson Sporting Goods Co.

Q: What technology areas does Wilson Sporting Goods Co. focus on?

Wilson Sporting Goods Co.'s top technology area is A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment) with 112 patents, ranking #13 of 1,021 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 23 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 155 granted patents across 23 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: A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Wilson ranks #2,520 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 155 patents across 23 technology areas.

#2,520
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 17%
by Innovation Score (48.1/100): 16.0
avg claims per patent: -30%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R2520 · US Corporation #2,520 · 155 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 155 grants
TOP-DECILE #2,520/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Oce- B V
CPC-FOCUS A63B · 23 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.0 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DOWN -30% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Oce-technologies B.V. (±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 Wilson’s 48.1 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 17.4 pts (36%) Velocity 4.1 pts (9%) Breadth 17.0 pts (35%) Claim depth 9.6 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Oakley · near

48
Spogen Biotech · near

48
Abbott Point of Care · near

48
Wilson Sporting Goods · this assignee

48
Chipone Technology… · near

48
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Wilson's Innovation Score is 48.1/100 (top 17% 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 Wilson?

Each dot is one of Wilson’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). Wilson’s own 16.0 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.0 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Wilson's grants concentrate

Wilson Sporting Goods Co. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 23 CPC subclasses with 72.3% of grants classified under A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment). Peak complete grant year is 2015 (20 grants) versus a trough of 5 in 2022. By volume, Wilson sits between Oce-technologies B.V. and Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd..

Wilson's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Wilson Sporting Goods Co. moved from 50 to 31 grants (0.62x 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 #2,394. See the growth leaderboard.

Oce- B V

155
ONO Pharmaceutical

155
Safran Seats USA

155
Tenneco

155
Wilson Sporting G… ◀

155
Atlassian

154
CMR Surgical

154
Cancer Research T…

154
Citizen Holdings

154

What this shows Wilson holds 155 patents at rank #2,520, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Wilson

By rank, the assignees closest to #2,520 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Wilson, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training), Wilson ranks #13 of 1,021 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (48 here).

Abbott Point of Care Inc. 48 Chipone Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. 48 Oakley, Inc. 48 Spogen Biotech, Inc. 48

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.0 here).

Versalis S.P.A. 16.0 avg The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA 16.0 avg Azur Space Solar Power GmbH 16.0 avg THE Texas A&M University System 16.0 avg

Wilson's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

48 Top 17% higher than 83% 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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Wilson Sporting Goods Co. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	20	12.9%
2016	16	10.3%
2017	18	11.6%
2018	15	9.7%
2019	19	12.3%
2020	19	12.3%
2021	12	7.7%
2022	5	3.2%
2023	15	9.7%
2024	11	7.1%
2025partial year	5	3.2%

Which technologies does Wilson Sporting Goods Co. patent most?

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 112

G09B - Educational OR Demonstration APPLIANCES; Appliances FOR Teaching, OR Communicating With, THE Blind, Deaf OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; Diagrams 17

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 12

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 10

G01M - Testing Static OR Dynamic Balance OF Machines OR STRUCTURES; Testing OF Structures OR Apparatus, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 9

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 9

A41D - OUTERWEAR; Protective GARMENTS; Accessories 7

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 5

A41F - Garment FASTENINGS; Suspenders 3

G09F - DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; Labels OR NAME-PLATES; Seals 2

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

B29D - Producing Particular Articles From Plastics OR From Substances IN A Plastic State 1

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 1

B62B - Hand-propelled Vehicles, e.g. Hand Carts OR PERAMBULATORS; Sledges 1

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

Top 15 of 23 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

Wilson Sporting Goods Co.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Wilson Sporting Goods Co.'s lead technology class is A63B (Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment), 72.3% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore A63B
Ranked #2,520 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Wilson Sporting Goods Co. against Oce-technologies B.V., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.1/100 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

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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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