(Revised February 6 and 7, 2015 to correct a typographical error in two firm’s count of patents.)
Note: You can also see the 2013 US Design Patent Toteboard and the 2012 US Design Patent Toteboard.
You can also see all of the past toteboards.
The USPTO issued 23657 design patents in 2014. The goal of this toteboard 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. Each firm was invited in early January 2015 to submit a simple online questionnaire. The closing date for the questionnaires was January 31, 2015.
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 twenty-nine firms responded, between them having obtained about 16% of all of the granted US design patents in 2014. Some firms that had obtained significant numbers of US design patents in 2014, however, failed to respond despite reminders by email or telephone or both. 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 24% of all granted US design patents in 2014.
| ranking | firm | patents | web address |
| 1 | Banner & Witcoff | 790 | www.bannerwitcoff.com |
| 2 | Sughrue Mion, PLLC | 293 | www.sughrue.com |
| 3 | QuickPatents | 265 | www.quickpatents.com |
| 4 | Muncy, Geissler, Olds | 234 | www.mg-ip.com |
| 5 | Foley & Lardner* | 222 | |
| 6 | Cantor Colburn LLP | 220 | www.cantorcolburn.com |
| 7 | Morgan Lewis* | 219 | |
| 8 | Harness Dickey | 211 | www.hdp.com |
| 9 | Birch Stewart* | 210 | |
| 10 | Sterne Kessler* | 205 | |
| 11 | Knobbe Martens | 172 | www.knobbe.com |
| 12 | Saidman DesignLaw Group | 170 | www.designlawgroup.com |
| 13 | Christensen O’Connor* | 159 | |
| 14 | Kilpatrick Stockton* | 142 | |
| 15 | Crowell & Moring LLP | 136 | www.crowell.com |
| 16 | Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC | 121 | www.raderfishman.com |
| 17 | Ladas & Parry* | 115 | |
| 18 | Wolf Greenfield* | 110 | |
| 19 | RatnerPrestia | 109 | www.ratnerprestia.com |
| 20 | Westerman, Hattori, Daniels | 108 | www.whda.com |
| 21 | Nixon Vanderhye* | 104 | |
| 22 | Finnegan Henderson* | 104 | |
| 23 | Leydig, Voit & Mayer | 98 | www.leydig.com |
| 24 | Sheridan Ross* | 97 | |
| 25 | McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Ltd. | 95 | |
| 26 | Oblon Spivak* | 90 | |
| 27 | Otter Products, LLC | 64 | www.otterbox.com |
| 28 | Novak Druce Connolly Bove | 61 | www.novakdruce.com |
| 29 | Pearne & Gordon LLP | 48 | www.pearne.com |
| 30 | Warner Norcross & Judd LLP | 43 | www.wnj.com |
| 31 | Cozen O’Connor* | 33 | |
| 32 | Leason Ellis LLC | 31 | www.leasonellis.com |
| 33 | Andrus Intellectual Property | 28 | www.andruslaw.com |
| 34 | Osha Liang LLP | 26 | www.oshaliang.com |
| 35 | Jacobson Holman PLLC | 24 | www.jhip.com |
| 36 | Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC | 23 | www.oppedahl.com |
| 37 | Head, Johnson & Kachigian, PC | 17 | www.hjklaw.com |
| 38 | Design IP | 11 | www.designip.com |
| 39 | Brown & Michaels | 9 | www.bpmlegal.com |
| 40 | Chernoff Vilhauer LLP | 9 | www.chernofflaw.com |
| 41 | Michael J Brown Law Office | 7 | www.mjbrownlaw.com |
| 42 | G. White Patents | 1 | www.gwhitepatents.com |
| 43 | Babcock IP, PLLC | 1 | www.babcockip.com |
If you would like to be included in the US Design Patent Toteboard in future years, please subscribe to the Industrial Designs listserv at http://www.oppedahl.com/designs-l/ . When the online questionnaire for next year is made available, it will be announced on that listserv.
This table is provided by the Ant-Like Persistence blog.