It is my honor to post the ninth annual US Design Patent Toteboard.
The USPTO issued 34876 design patents in 2020. 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 2020. Each firm was invited in early 2021 to submit a simple online questionnaire. The closing date for the questionnaires was April 2, 2021.
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 about sixteen percent of all of the granted US design patents in 2020.
| rank | number | firm name | web site |
| 1 | 1136 | Banner Witcoff | www.bannerwitcoff.com |
| 2 | 554 | Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. | www.sternekessler.com |
| 3 | 498 | Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP | www.bskb.com |
| 4 | 323 | Cantor Colburn LLP | www.cantorcolburn.com |
| 5 | 323 | Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C. | www.mg-ip.com |
| 6 | 260 | Wood Herron & Evans LLP | www.whe-law.com |
| 7 | 256 | McAndrews, Held & Malloy | www.mcandrews-ip.com |
| 8 | 250 | Saidman DesignLaw Group | www.designlawgroup.com |
| 9 | 217 | NSIP Law | www.nsiplaw.com |
| 10 | 201 | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | www.kilpatricktownsend.com |
| 11 | 173 | Finnegan LLP | www.finnegan.com |
| 12 | 166 | Quarles & Brady LLP | www.quarles.com |
| 13 | 138 | Crowell & Moring LLP | www.crowell.com |
| 14 | 118 | Harness Dickey | www.hdp.com |
| 15 | 114 | Leydig, Voit & Mayer | www.leydig.com |
| 16 | 106 | Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP | www.fitcheven.com |
| 17 | 103 | Marshall Gerstein & Borun LLP | www.marshallip.com |
| 18 | 99 | Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. | www.oblon.com |
| 19 | 90 | Brinks Gilson & Lione | www.brinksgilson.com |
| 20 | 83 | Fox Rothschild LLP | www.foxrothschild.com |
| 21 | 72 | Westerman Hattori Daniels & Adrian LLP | www.whda.com |
| 22 | 68 | FisherBroyles, LLP | www.fisherbroyles.com |
| 23 | 57 | Venable LLP | www.venable.com |
| 24 | 36 | Maier & Maier PLLC | www.maierandmaier.com |
| 25 | 35 | Capitol City TechLaw, PLLC | www.capcitytechlaw.com |
| 26 | 32 | Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP | www.eversheds-sutherland.com |
| 27 | 29 | KPPB LLP | www.kppb.com |
| 28 | 27 | Kenja IP Law PC | www.kenjaip.com |
| 29 | 26 | Woodard, Emhardt, Henry, Reeves & Wagner, LLP | www.uspatent.com |
| 30 | 25 | Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC | www.oppedahl.com |
| 31 | 24 | Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. | www.cll.com |
| 32 | 24 | Jacobson Holman PLLC | www.jhip.com |
| 33 | 24 | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | www.wsgr.com |
| 34 | 18 | Loza & Loza, LLP | www.lozaip.com |
| 35 | 16 | Blue Filament Law PLLC | www.bluefilamentlaw.com |
| 36 | 16 | Umberg Zipser LLP | www.umbergzipser.com |
| 37 | 12 | Nancy J. Flint, Attorney At Law, P.A. | www.flintiplaw.com |
| 38 | 12 | PatentFile, LLC | www.patentfile.org |
| 39 | 9 | iPA & iPM | www.ipatentapplication.com |
| 40 | 9 | Rogowski Law LLC | www.rogowskilaw.com |
| 41 | 8 | Offit Kurman, Attorneys at Law | www.offitkurman.com |
| 42 | 6 | Aslan Law | www.aslan.law |
| 43 | 6 | Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. | www.gklaw.com |
| 44 | 6 | Patent Law of Virginia, PLLC | www.patentlawva.com |
| 45 | 4 | Fishman Stewart PLLC | www.fishstewip.com |
| 46 | 4 | Hard IP LLC | www.hard-ip.net |
| 47 | 4 | Michael J Brown Law Office LLC | www.mjbrownlaw.com |
| 48 | 4 | Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP | www.sagllp.com |
| 49 | 1 | Smirman IP Law, PLLC | www.smirman.com |
You can also see the 2020 US Trademark Registration Toteboard and the 2020 US Utility Patent Toteboard and the 2020 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 Industrial Designs listserv or subscribe to this blog. You will then learn of the availability of the questionnaire in early 2022.