Company Analysis

Designer Brands Inc. (DBI)

NYSE: DBI · Retail-Shoe Stores · Columbus, OH · filing with the SEC since 2005
Grade4.7
◀ Past 5.9● Present 5.3▶ Future 2.7

Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

7 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Designer Brands Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
7
5 design, 2 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
Against 1 in 2024 and none in 2023
Applications published
1
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'03'04'05'09'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name2 counted
DSW Shoe Warehouse, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
5 granted
1 published
DBI Brands Management LLC a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
2 granted
0 published
Names not counted (4)
DSW Inc.
Most of its patents print KR; this name counts in US. 0 granted and 1 published under it are not counted.
DSW IP Assets B.V.
Most of its patents print NL; this name counts in US. 1 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
DSW Inc.
Most of its patents print IT; this name counts in US. 1 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
JEMS, Inc.
Most of its patents print NL; this name counts in US. 1 granted and 0 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jan 7, 2025D1,056,436Footwear upperDBI Brands Management LLC
Jul 23, 2024D1,036,094Footwear upperDBI Brands Management LLC
Jan 20, 20097,478,732Modular footwear display and storage system and methodFurniture, gamesDSW Shoe Warehouse, Inc.
Sep 27, 2005D509,972Combined product display and stacked product container separatorDSW Shoe Warehouse, Inc.
Sep 27, 20056,948,622Modular footwear display and storage system and methodFurniture, gamesDSW Shoe Warehouse, Inc.
Aug 31, 2004D495,172Combined product display and stacked product container separatorDSW Shoe Warehouse, Inc.
Aug 19, 2003D478,435Modular shoe box display fixtureDSW Shoe Warehouse, Inc.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Oct 20, 20052005/0230333Modular footwear display and storage system and methodFurniture, gamesDSW Shoe Warehouse, Inc. · patent 7,478,732 granted from it

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

SI Assistanton DBI · research, not advice