The USPTO issued 28874 design patents in 2015, an 11% increase over 2015. 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 US design patents. It ranks the firms according to the number of US design patents obtained in 2016. Each firm was invited in January 2017 to submit a simple online questionnaire. The closing date for the questionnaires was January 15, 2017.
Each firm was asked to report only US design patents for which that firm is listed on the front page of the granted patent. Some fifty-four firms responded. Some firms that had obtained significant numbers of US design patents in 2016, however, failed to respond. For such firms (denoted by an asterisk) we carried out our own database searches and arrived at numbers of patents and inserted those numbers into the table.
The resulting table accounts for 29% of all granted US design patents in 2016.
| Ranking | Design patents | Firm | Web site |
| 1 | 1032 | Banner & Witcoff | https://bannerwitcoff.com/ |
| 2 | 722 | NSIP Law | * |
| 3 | 610 | Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox | www.skgf.com |
| 4 | 553 | Cantor Colburn LLP | www.cantorcolburn.com |
| 5 | 418 | Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP | www.bskb.com |
| 6 | 284 | Ladas & Parry | * |
| 7 | 271 | Muncy Geissler | * |
| 8 | 264 | Foley & Lardner | * |
| 9 | 255 | Sughrue | * |
| 10 | 250 | McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd. | www.mcandrews-ip.com |
| 11 | 245 | Morgan Lewis | * |
| 12 | 235 | Knobbe Martens | * |
| 13 | 204 | Crowell & Moring | * |
| 14 | 191 | Saidman DesignLaw Group, LLC | www.designlawgroup.com |
| 15 | 167 | Harness Dickey | www.hdp.com |
| 16 | 153 | Kilpatrick Stockton | * |
| 17 | 145 | QuickPatents, LLC | https://www.quickpatents.com |
| 18 | 126 | Finnegan Henderson | * |
| 19 | 123 | Design IP | www.designip.com |
| 20 | 115 | Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik LLP | https://ldlkm.com/ |
| 21 | 115 | Nixon Vanderhye | * |
| 22 | 108 | Fishman Stewart PLLC | www.fishstewip.com |
| 23 | 106 | Sheridan Ross P.C. | www.sheridanross.com |
| 24 | 102 | Leydig, Voit & Mayer | www.leydig.com |
| 25 | 95 | BakerHostetler LLP | www.bakerlaw.com |
| 26 | 95 | Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian LLP | WHDA.com |
| 27 | 90 | Plumsea Law Group, LLC | www.plumsea.com |
| 28 | 83 | Pearne & Gordon LLP | https://pearne.com |
| 29 | 80 | RatnerPrestia | www.ratnerprestia.com |
| 30 | 77 | Reising Ethington P.C. | www.reising.com |
| 31 | 75 | Renner Otto | www.rennerotto.com |
| 32 | 74 | Wolf Greenfield | * |
| 33 | 65 | Christensen O’Connor | * |
| 34 | 65 | Oblon McClelland | * |
| 35 | 63 | Troutman Sanders LLP | www.troutmansanders.com |
| 36 | 60 | Thomas Horstemeyer | www.thomashorstemeyer.com |
| 37 | 54 | Leason Ellis LLP | www.LeasonEllis.com |
| 38 | 50 | Warner Norcross | * |
| 39 | 45 | Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice | wcsr.com |
| 40 | 44 | Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC | www.oppedahl.com |
| 41 | 42 | Lee & Hayes, pllc | https://www.leehayes.com/ |
| 42 | 42 | Novak Druce | * |
| 43 | 38 | Klarquist Sparkman LLP | www.klarquist.com |
| 44 | 38 | Hodgson Russ LLP | * |
| 45 | 36 | Cozen O’Connor | * |
| 46 | 35 | Carter, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP | www.cdfslaw.com |
| 47 | 34 | Andrus IP Law | * |
| 48 | 24 | Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC | www.drm.com |
| 49 | 21 | Fox Rothschild LLP | www.foxrothschild.com |
| 50 | 20 | Blue Filament Law PLLC | www.bluefilamentlaw.com |
| 51 | 19 | Capitol City TechLaw | www.capcitytechlaw.com |
| 52 | 18 | Standley Law Group | www.standleyllp.com |
| 53 | 17 | MacMillan Sobanski | * |
| 54 | 16 | Polson IP Law | * |
| 55 | 15 | Jacobson Holman PLLC | www.jhip.com |
| 56 | 15 | Osha Liang LLP | www.oshaliang.com |
| 57 | 13 | Loza & Loza, LLP | www.lozaip.com |
| 58 | 13 | Hauptman Ham | * |
| 59 | 13 | Head Johnson | * |
| 60 | 10 | Chernoff Vilhauer LLP | chernofflaw.com |
| 61 | 9 | DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C. | www.dewittross.com |
| 62 | 8 | Brown & Michaels | * |
| 63 | 6 | Kenja IP Law PC | www.kenjaip.com |
| 64 | 5 | Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. | www.gklaw.com |
| 65 | 5 | Hoffman Warnick LLC | www.hoffmanwarnick.com |
| 66 | 5 | Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP | https://www.sagllp.com/ |
| 67 | 4 | Von Hellens & Bycer Law | www.bycerlaw.com |
| 68 | 4 | Winston & Strawn | * |
| 69 | 3 | Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP | www.millernash.com |
| 70 | 2 | Law Offices of Guy V. Manning | |
| 71 | 2 | Baylis Medical Company Inc. | |
| 72 | 2 | Patwrite Law | www.patwrite.com |
| 73 | 1 | Smirman IP Law, PLLC | www.smirman.com |
| 74 | 1 | Neifeld IP Law, PC | www.neifeld.com |
| 75 | 1 | Michael J Brown Law Office LLC | mjbrownlaw.com |
You can also see the 2016 US Trademark Toteboard and the 2016 US Utility Patent Toteboard. You can also see the Ant-Like Persistence US design patent toteboards for 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012.
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