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.
The goal of this toteboard is to list the firms that helped clients obtain US trademark registrations in 2015. The toteboard seeks to list US trademark registrations granted in 2015. Firms were invited in January 2016 to submit a simple online questionnaire. The closing date for the questionnaires was February 15, 2016.
| Ranking | US trademarks | FIrm | City | State | Web site |
| 1 | 587 | K&L Gates | Chicago | IL | www.klgates.com |
| 2 | 557 | Abelman Frayne & Schwab | New York | New York | www.lawabel.com |
| 3 | 551 | Fox Rothschild LLP | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | foxrothschild.com |
| 4 | 452 | BakerHostetler | Cleveland | Ohio | |
| 5 | 396 | Harness Dickey | Troy | MI | www.hdp.com |
| 6 | 394 | Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP | Falls Church | VA | www.bskb.com |
| 7 | 362 | Cantor Colburn | Hartford | CT | www.cantorcolburn.com |
| 8 | 233 | Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C. | Fairfax | Virginia | www.mg-ip.com |
| 9 | 219 | Pearne & Gordon LLP | Cleveland | OH | pearne.com |
| 10 | 208 | Erik M. Pelton & Associates | Falls Church | VA | www.ErikPelton.com |
| 11 | 205 | Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. | Chicago | IL | www.leydig.com |
| 12 | 135 | Loza & Loza, LLP | Upland | CA | www.lozaip.com |
| 13 | 130 | Banner & Witcoff | Washington | DC | www.bannerwitcoff.com |
| 14 | 128 | Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. | Milwaukee | WI | www.gklaw.com |
| 15 | 94 | Head, Johnson & Kachigian, PC | Tulsa | Oklahoma | hjklaw.com |
| 16 | 91 | Antoinette M. Tease, P.L.L.C. | Billings | MT | www.teaselaw.com |
| 17 | 89 | Andrus Intellectual Property Law, LLP | Milwaukee | WI | www.andruslaw.com |
| 18 | 81 | Lee & Hayes, PLLC | Spokane | Washington | www.leehayes.com |
| 19 | 66 | Chernoff Vilhauer LLP | Portland | OR | chernofflaw.com |
| 20 | 55 | Standley Law Group LLP | Dublin | OH | www.standleyllp.com |
| 21 | 49 | Kim Winston LLP | Yonkers | NY | www.kimwinston.com |
| 22 | 40 | Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC | Westminster | CO | www.oppedahl.com |
| 23 | 39 | Michael J Brown Law Office | Livingston | NJ | www.mjbrownlaw.com |
| 24 | 14 | Kain Spielman, P.A. | Fort Lauderdale | Florida | ComplexIP.com |
| 25 | 13 | Neifeld IP Law, PC | Alexandria | Virginia | www.neifeld.com |
(March 1, 2016 update: Banner & Witcoff responded on February 1, 2016 and I somehow failed to get that information into the table. Today I added a row to the table for the Banner & Witcoff listing.)
You can also see the 2015 US Utility Patent Toteboard and 2015 US Design Patent Toteboard.
You can also see all of the past toteboards.
If you wish to be included in next year’s toteboard, please subscribe to the E-trademarks listserv or subscribe to this blog. You will then learn of the availability of the questionnaire in January of 2017.
If your firm did not respond and is not listed in these 2015 toteboards, feel free to post a comment to this article with your firm’s totals for 2015 and, if you like, the approximate ranking that you think would have resulted for your firm.