It is my honor to post the fifth annual US Utility Patent Toteboard.
The USPTO issued 354445 US utility patents in 2019. 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 patents. It ranks the firms according to the number of US utility patents obtained in 2019. Each firm was invited in early 2020 to submit a simple online questionnaire. The closing date for the questionnaires was in January 31, 2020.
Each firm was asked to report only US utility patents for which that firm is listed on the front page of the granted patent. The firms listed below, between them, accounted for about fourteen percent of all of the granted US utility patents in 2019.
| Ranking | patents | Firm | web site |
| 1 | 6088 | Oblon McLelland | www.oblon.com |
| 2 | 4581 | Sughrue | www.sughrue.com |
| 3 | 4418 | Cantor Colburn LLP | www.cantorcolburn.com |
| 4 | 3855 | Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP | www.bskb.com |
| 5 | 3394 | Harness Dickey | www.hdp.com |
| 6 | 1982 | Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C. | www.mg-ip.com |
| 7 | 1947 | Finnegan Henderson | www.finnegan.com |
| 8 | 1526 | Brinks Gilson & Lione | www.brinksgilson.com |
| 9 | 1524 | Banner Witcoff | www.bannerwitcoff.com |
| 10 | 1476 | Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. | leydig.com |
| 11 | 1185 | Westerman Hattori Daniels & Adrian, LLP | whda.com |
| 12 | 1181 | Hauptman Ham, LLP | www.ipfirm.com |
| 13 | 1025 | Keating & Bennett, LLP | www.kbiplaw.com |
| 14 | 889 | Sterne Kessler | www.sternekessler.com |
| 15 | 767 | Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP | www.fitcheven.com |
| 16 | 750 | Ladas & Parry LLP | www.ladas.com |
| 17 | 639 | Wood Herron & Evans LLP | www.whe-law.com |
| 18 | 627 | NSIP Law | www.nsiplaw.com |
| 19 | 530 | Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP | www.eversheds-sutherland.com |
| 20 | 502 | Withrow & Terranova, P.L.L.C. | www.wt-ip.com |
| 21 | 449 | Loza & Loza LLP | www.lozaip.com |
| 22 | 425 | Fox Rothschild LLP | www.foxrothschild.com |
| 23 | 385 | Maier & Maier, PLLC | www.maierandmaier.com |
| 24 | 384 | Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC | www.lsk-iplaw.com |
| 25 | 343 | Hoffman Warnick LLC | www.hoffmanwarnick.com |
| 26 | 290 | Hodgson Russ LLP | www.hodgsonruss.com |
| 27 | 282 | Fishman Stewart PLLC | www.fishstewip.com |
| 28 | 272 | Thompson Hine LLP | www.thompsonhine.com |
| 29 | 265 | Browdy and Neimark, PLLC | www.browdyneimark.com |
| 30 | 236 | Robert Eichenberger | www.middletonlaw.com |
| 31 | 234 | MacMillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC | mstfirm.com |
| 32 | 215 | Allen, Dyer, Doppelt + Gilchrist, P.A. | www.allendyer.com |
| 33 | 167 | KPPB LLP | www.kppb.com |
| 34 | 155 | DeWitt LLP | www.dewittllp.com |
| 35 | 151 | Woodard, Emhardt, Henry, Reeves & Wagner, LLP | www.uspatent.com |
| 36 | 134 | Medley, Behrens & Lewis LLC | www.medleybehrens.com |
| 37 | 127 | Klintworth and Rozenblat IP LLP | www.kandrip.com |
| 38 | 117 | Amerson Law Firm, PLLC | |
| 39 | 99 | Blue Filament Law PLLC | www.bluefilamentlaw.com |
| 40 | 94 | Chernoff Vilhauer LLP | chernofflaw.com |
| 41 | 91 | Fogarty LLP | www.fogartyip.com |
| 42 | 90 | Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC | www.dbllawyers.com |
| 43 | 62 | Jacobson Holman PLLC | |
| 44 | 58 | Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC | www.lplegal.com |
| 45 | 45 | Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC | www.oppedahl.com |
| 46 | 42 | Umberg Zipser, LLP | www.umbergzipser.com |
| 47 | 39 | Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP | lewisbrisbois.com |
| 48 | 38 | Canady + Lortz LLP | canadylortz.com |
| 49 | 34 | Capitol City TechLaw, PLLC | www.capcitytechlaw.com |
| 50 | 34 | Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP | www.sagllp.com |
| 51 | 32 | PatentFile, LLC | patentfile.org |
| 52 | 25 | Smirman IP Law, PLLC | Www.smirman.com |
| 53 | 22 | Rogowski Law LLC | www.rogowskilaw.com |
| 54 | 20 | Aslan Law | www.aslanlaw.com |
| 55 | 20 | Michael L. Leetzow, P.A. | leetzow.com |
| 56 | 19 | Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. | www.gklaw.com |
| 57 | 18 | Patwrite Law | www.patwrite.com |
| 58 | 16 | Patricia Liner | millermartin.com |
| 59 | 14 | Werschulz Patent Law, LLC | wplllc.com |
| 60 | 13 | Bycer Law, PLC | www.bycerlaw.com |
| 61 | 11 | Nancy J. Flint, Attorney At Law, P.A. | www.flintiplaw.com |
| 62 | 10 | Matrix Patent Agency | www.mxpatent.com |
| 63 | 8 | IP&L Solutions | |
| 64 | 7 | Groover & Associates PLLC | technopatents.com |
| 65 | 7 | Patent Law of Virginia, PLLC | www.patentlawva.com |
| 66 | 5 | Michael J Brown Law Office LLC | www.mjbrownlaw.com |
| 67 | 1 | Phil IP Law Group | www.philiplawgroup.com |
You can also see the 2019 US Trademark Registration Toteboard and the 2019 US Design Patent Toteboard and the 2019 US Plant Patent Toteboard. You can also see the past toteboards.
If you wish to be included in next year’s toteboard, please subscribe to the EFS-Web listserv or subscribe to this blog. You will then learn of the availability of the questionnaire in January of 2021.