It is my honor to post the seventh annual US Design Patent Toteboard.
The USPTO issued 30497 design patents in 2018. 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 2018. Each firm was invited in early 2019 to submit a simple online questionnaire. The closing date for the questionnaires was in March of 2019.
Each firm was asked to report only US design patents for which that firm is listed on the front page of the granted patent. The firms listed below, between them, accounted for well over ten percent of all of the granted US design patents in 2018.
| Ranking | Patents | Firm | Web Site |
| 1 | 851 | Banner & Witcoff | https://www.bannerwitcoff.com |
| 2 | 794 | Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch | https://www.bskb.com |
| 3 | 467 | Sterne Kessler | https://www.sternekessler.com/ |
| 4 | 357 | Cantor Colburn LLP | https://www.cantorcolburn.com/ |
| 5 | 241 | Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C. | https://www.mg-ip.com |
| 6 | 235 | NSIP Law | https://www.nsiplaw.com |
| 7 | 210 | Saidman DesignLaw Group LLC | https://www.designlawgroup.com |
| 8 | 207 | Finnegan LLP | https://www.finnegan.com |
| 9 | 105 | Ladas & Parry LLP | https://www.ladas.com |
| 10 | 98 | Quarles & Brady, LLP | https://www.quarles.com |
| 11 | 93 | QuickPatents, LLC | https://www.quickpatents.com |
| 12 | 84 | Harness Dickey | https://www.hdp.com |
| 13 | 83 | Lee & Hayes, PC | https://www.leehayes.com/ |
| 14 | 76 | Brinks Gilson & Lione | https://www.brinksgilson.com |
| 15 | 67 | Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC | https://www.bipc.com |
| 16 | 64 | Hodgson Russ LLP | https://www.hodgsonruss.com/ |
| 17 | 62 | Fox Rothschild LLP | https://www.foxrothschild.com |
| 18 | 43 | Design IP | https://designip.com |
| 19 | 42 | Middleton Reutlinger | https://www.middletonlaw.com |
| 20 | 39 | Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC | https://www.oppedahl.com |
| 21 | 34 | Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP | https://www.eversheds-sutherland.com |
| 22 | 34 | Polson IP Law PC | https://www.polsoniplaw.com |
| 23 | 27 | Blue Filament Law PLLC | https://www.bluefilamentlaw.com |
| 24 | 27 | Loza & Loza, LLP | https://www.lozaip.com |
| 25 | 22 | Kenja IP Law PC | https://www.kenjaip.com |
| 26 | 19 | Levenfeld Pearlsein | https://www.lplegal.com |
| 27 | 18 | Capitol City TechLaw, PLLC | https://www.capcitytechlaw.com |
| 28 | 17 | Jacobson Holman PLLC | https://jhip.com |
| 29 | 16 | MacMillan, Sobanski and Todd LLC | https://www.mstfirm.com/ |
| 30 | 9 | Umberg Zipser | https://www.umbergzipser.com |
| 31 | 8 | Withrow & Terranova, P.L.L.C. | https://www.withrowterranova.com/ |
| 32 | 7 | Patentfile, LLC | https://patentfile.org/ |
| 33 | 4 | Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. | https://www.gklaw.com |
| 34 | 4 | Rogowski Law LLC | https://www.rogowskilaw.com |
| 35 | 4 | Werschulz Patent Law, LLC | https://www.wplllc.com |
| 36 | 3 | Michael J Brown Law Office LLC | https://www.mjbrownlaw.com |
| 37 | 3 | Stout, Uxa & Buyan, LLP | https://www.patlawyers.com |
| 38 | 2 | Matrix Patent Agency | https://www.mxpatent.com |
| 39 | 2 | Patent Law of Virginia PLLC | https://www.patentlawva.com |
| 40 | 2 | Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP | https://sagllp.com/ |
| 41 | 1 | Patwrite Law | https://www.patwrite.com |
| 42 | 1 | Ramey & Schwaller | https://rameyfirm.com |
You can also see the 2018 US Trademark Toteboard and the 2018 US Utility Patent Toteboard. You can also see the past toteboards.
If you wish to be included in next year’s toteboard, please subscribe to the Industrial Designs listserv or subscribe to this blog. You will then learn of the availability of the questionnaire in early 2020.