2016 US Design Patent Toteboard

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, 20142013 and 2012.

If you wish to be included in next year’s tote board, please subscribe to the Industrial Designs listserv or subscribe to this blog.  You will then learn of the availability of the questionnaire in January of 2018.