It is my honor to post the ninth annual US Utility Patent Toteboard.
The USPTO issued about 312095 US utility patents in 2023. The goal of this toteboard, brought to you by the Ant-Like Persistence blog, is to list the firms that helped clients to obtain these patents. It ranks the firms according to the number of US utility patents obtained in 2023. Each firm was invited in early 2024 to submit a simple online questionnaire. The closing date for the questionnaires was Friday, February 9, 2024. Each firm was asked to report only US utility patents for which that firm is listed on the front page of the granted patent.
The firms listed below, between them, accounted for about twelve percent of all of the granted US utility patents in 2023.
| Ranking | Utility Patents |
Firm | web site |
| 1 | 4002 | Sughrue | |
| 2 | 3535 | Harness IP | www.harnessip.com |
| 3 | 3178 | Oblon | |
| 4 | 2837 | Cantor Colburn LLP | www.cantorcolburn.com |
| 5 | 2636 | Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP | www.bskb.com |
| 6 | 1743 | Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C. | www.mg-ip.com |
| 7 | 1524 | Banner Witcoff | bannerwitcoff.com |
| 8 | 1433 | Venable LLP | www.venable.com |
| 9 | 1361 | WHDA, LLP | www.whda.com |
| 10 | 1261 | Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC | www.sternekessler.com |
| 11 | 1255 | Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. | www.leydig.com |
| 12 | 1208 | Hauptman Ham, LLP | www.ipfirm.com |
| 13 | 1034 | Marshall Gerstein & Borun LLP | marshallip.com |
| 14 | 995 | Renner Otto | www.rennerotto.com |
| 15 | 916 | Fox Rothschild LLP | www.foxrothschild.com |
| 16 | 783 | Pearne & Gordon LLP | pearne.com |
| 17 | 694 | Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC | www.lsk-iplaw.com |
| 18 | 626 | Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP | www.fitcheven.com |
| 19 | 531 | McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd. | www.mcandrews-ip.com |
| 20 | 499 | Loza & Loza, LLP | www.lozaip.com |
| 21 | 477 | FisherBroyles, LLP | www.fisherbroyles.com |
| 22 | 443 | Rossi, Kimms & McDowell LLP | www.rkmllp.com |
| 23 | 389 | McKee, Voorhees & Sease, PLC | www.ipmvs.com |
| 24 | 359 | Leason Ellis LLP | leasonellis.com |
| 25 | 357 | Withrow & Terranova, P.L.L.C. | www.wt-ip.com |
| 26 | 310 | Hodgson Russ LLP | www.hodgsonruss.com |
| 27 | 305 | Esplin & Associates, PC | esplin.legal |
| 28 | 268 | Hovey Williams LLP | www.hoveywilliams.com |
| 29 | 201 | Browdy and Neimark, PLLC | www.browdyneimark.com |
| 30 | 161 | Wood Herron & Evans LLP | whe-law.com |
| 31 | 151 | Allen, Dyer, Doppelt + Gilchrist, P.A. | allendyer.com |
| 32 | 137 | Fogarty LLP | www.fogartyip.com |
| 33 | 136 | Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig | www.dbllawyers.com |
| 34 | 132 | Kenja IP Law PC | |
| 35 | 123 | Woodard, Emhardt, Henry, Reeves & Wagner, LLP | www.uspatent.com |
| 36 | 89 | Umberg Zipser LLP | www.umbergzipser.com |
| 37 | 66 | Notaro, Michalos & Zaccaria P.C. | www.notaromichalos.com |
| 38 | 50 | Talem IP Law LLP | www.talemip.com |
| 39 | 50 | Thompson Patent Law | thompsonpatentlaw.com |
| 40 | 38 | Capitol City TechLaw, PLLC | www.capcitytechlaw.com |
| 41 | 31 | Aslan Law, P.C. | www.aslan.law |
| 42 | 28 | Offit Kurman. P.A. | www.offitkurman.com |
| 43 | 23 | Messner Reeves LLP | messner.com |
| 44 | 22 | Canady + Lortz LLP | canadylortz.com |
| 45 | 21 | Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. | www.gklaw.com |
| 46 | 19 | Leber IP Law | www.leberiplaw.com |
| 47 | 18 | Haukaas Fortius PLLC | www.hfglobalip.com |
| 48 | 17 | Thomas W. Galvani, P.C. | galvanilegal.com |
| 49 | 15 | Graeser Associates International Inc | kisspatent.com |
| 50 | 15 | Shakri Law PLLC | www.shakirlaw.com |
| 51 | 13 | Bycer & Marion, PLC | www.bycermarion.com |
| 52 | 11 | Juneau & Mitchell | |
| 53 | 11 | New England Intellectual Property | www.newenglandip.com |
| 54 | 11 | Rogowski Law LLC | www.rogowskilaw.com |
| 55 | 9 | Kintner IP, LLC | www.kintnerip.com |
| 56 | 9 | Patentfile, LLC | patentfile.org |
| 57 | 7 | Matrix Patent Agency | www.mxpatent.com |
| 58 | 7 | Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC | www.oppedahl.com |
| 59 | 5 | IP&L Solutions | |
| 60 | 4 | Moazzam & Associates, LLC | moazzamlaw.com |
You can also see the 2023 US Trademark Registration Toteboard and the 2023 US Design Patent Toteboard and the 2023 US Plant Patent Toteboard. You can also see the past toteboards.
If you wish to be included in next year’s toteboard, please subscribe to the Patent Practice listserv or subscribe to this blog. You will then learn of the availability of the questionnaire in early 2025.