(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.