From 2005 to 2014, Intellectual Property Today magazine served the IP community by providing toteboards ranking US patent and trademark firms according to the number of patents and trademarks obtained for clients each year.
The Ant-Like Persistence blog now carries on this tradition. Here are the 2015 US toteboards. You can see:
- the 2015 US Utility Patent Toteboard
- the 2015 US Design Patent Toteboard
- the 2015 US Trademark Toteboard
You can also see previous US Design Patent Toteboards for 2014, 2013, and 2012.
These toteboards rely upon reported numbers from patent and trademark firms. Unfortunately, not all patent and trademark firms reported their numbers, which doubtless left some omissions in the rankings. For the utility and design patent toteboards, we were able to carry out searches on a USPTO database to remedy some of the omissions. As for US trademark registrations, however, it is not easy to carry out searches by trademark firm. So there are probably more omissions in that toteboard.
Hopefully by next year most patent and trademark firms will be aware of these toteboards and will report their numbers.
If your firm did not respond and is not listed in these 2015 toteboards, feel free to post a comment below with your firm’s totals for 2015 and, if you like, the approximate ranking that you think would have resulted for your firm.
Can you please clarify these stats? Are these numbers only the registrations obtained in 2015, and not the total number of filings?
Thanks
Thank you for posting. Yes for the trademark toteboard the figure is US trademark registrations granted in 2015.
sorry for my ignorance, but whatever happened to the IP today magazine. did they go out of business?
Thanks for posting. I sure wish I knew what happened to the magazine. About a month ago I tried phoning them and emailing them and couldn’t get through. And the web site was down.
The Office of General Counsel for the Department of the Navy had (at least) 353 issued patents in CY15.
While probably not a perfectly exact number, a search of issued patents where the Navy is listed as an assignee gets us in the ballpark. I weeded out the 10 applications where the Navy was a joint owner and the prosecution was done by an attorney retained by the joint owner. This method might miss a patent where the attorney forgot to list the assignee on the issue fee payment sheet, but that shouldn’t be too many.
In 2015, Cook Alex Ltd. had 83 US Utility Patents, 20 US Design Patents and 39 US Trademarks.
In 2015 Lackenbach Siegel LLP obtained 244 US registrations for our various clients.