2012 US Design Patent Toteboard
(Revised February 6 and 7, 2015 to correct a typographical error in the patent count for two firms.)
Note: You can also see the 2014 US Design Patent Toteboard and the 2013 US Design Patent Toteboard.
The USPTO issued 21951 design patents in 2012. 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 January 2015 to submit a simple online questionnaire. Each firm was asked to report only US design patents for which that firm is listed on the front page of the granted patent. Here are the results of those reports.
| ranking | firm | patents | web address |
| 1 | Banner & Witcoff | 660 | www.bannerwitcoff.com |
| 2 | QuickPatents | 328 | www.quickpatents.com |
| 3 | Sughrue Mion, PLLC | 258 | www.sughrue.com |
| 4 | Muncy, Geissler, Olds. | 168 | www.mg-ip.com |
| 5 | Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC | 147 | www.raderfishman.com |
| 6 | Saidman DesignLaw Group | 124 | www.designlawgroup.com |
| 7 | Knobbe Martens | 113 | www.knobbe.com |
| 8 | Harness Dickey | 109 | www.hdp.com |
| 9 | Cantor Colburn LLP | 107 | www.cantorcolburn.com |
| 10 | Westerman, Hattori, Daniels | 81 | www.whda.com |
| 11 | Pearne & Gordon LLP | 77 | www.pearne.com |
| 12 | RatnerPrestia | 73 | www.ratnerprestia.com |
| 13 | Crowell & Morning LLP | 69 | www.crowell.com |
| 14 | Jacobson Holman PLLC | 54 | www.jhip.com |
| 15 | Leydig, Voit & Mayer | 49 | www.leydig.com |
| 16 | Warner Norcross & Judd LLP | 49 | www.wnj.com |
| 17 | Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC | 30 | www.oppedahl.com |
| 18 | Osha Liang LLP | 24 | www.oshaliang.com |
| 19 | Leason Ellis LLC | 23 | www.leasonellis.com |
| 20 | Otter Products, LLC | 19 | www.otterbox.com |
| 21 | Design IP | 18 | www.designip.com |
| 22 | Andrus Intellectual Property | 16 | www.andruslaw.com |
| 23 | Head, Johnson & Kachigian, PC | 12 | www.hjklaw.com |
| 24 | Brown & Michaels | 3 | www.bpmlegal.com |
| 25 | Chernoff Vilhauer LLP | 3 | www.chernofflaw.com |
| 26 | Babcock IP, PLLC | 3 | www.babcockip.com |
| 27 | Michael J Brown Law Office | 2 | www.mjbrownlaw.com |
| 28 | G. White Patents | 1 | www.gwhitepatents.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.
You can also see all of the past toteboards.
This table is provided by the Ant-Like Persistence blog.