It is my honor to post the eighth annual US Utility Patent Toteboard.
The USPTO issued about 322992 US utility patents in 2022. 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 2022. Each firm was invited in early 2023 to submit a simple online questionnaire. The closing date for the questionnaires was January 24, 2023. 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 fifteen percent of all of the granted US utility patents in 2022.
| Ranking | Utility Patents |
Firm | web site |
| 1 | 4579 | Sughrue Mion | https://www.sughrue.com/ |
| 2 | 4251 | Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt LLP | www.oblon.com |
| 3 | 3165 | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | www.kilpatricktownsend.com |
| 4 | 3154 | Cantor Colburn LLP | www.cantorcolburn.com |
| 5 | 3149 | Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP | www.bskb.com |
| 6 | 2868 | Harness IP | https://www.harnessip.com/ |
| 7 | 1898 | Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C. | www.mg-ip.com |
| 8 | 1873 | Slater Matsil, LLP | slatermatsil.com |
| 9 | 1567 | Venable LLP | https://www.venable.com/ |
| 10 | 1451 | Leydig, Voit & Mayer | leydig.com |
| 11 | 1415 | Banner Witcoff | https://bannerwitcoff.com/ |
| 12 | 1134 | Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. | www.sternekessler.com |
| 13 | 1094 | Hauptman Ham, LLP | www.ipfirm.com |
| 14 | 1070 | Brooks Kushman | https://www.brookskushman.com/ |
| 15 | 1049 | Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP | www.marshallip.com |
| 16 | 977 | WHDA | whda.com |
| 17 | 854 | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | https://www.wsgr.com/en/ |
| 18 | 803 | FisherBroyles, LLP | https://www.fisherbroyles.com/ |
| 19 | 688 | NSIP Law | www.nsiplaw.com |
| 20 | 667 | Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC | www.lsk-iplaw.com |
| 21 | 650 | Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP | eversheds-sutherland.com |
| 22 | 637 | Fox Rothschild LLP | www.foxrothschild.com |
| 23 | 506 | McAndrews, Held & Malloy | https://www.mcandrews-ip.com/ |
| 24 | 424 | Withrow + Terranova, PLLC | https://www.wt-ip.com/ |
| 25 | 412 | Rossi, Kimms & McDowell LLP | www.rkmllp.com |
| 26 | 370 | Loza & Loza LLP | www.lozaip.com |
| 27 | 265 | McKee, Voorhees & Sease, PLC | https://www.ipmvs.com/ |
| 28 | 226 | Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, PC | www.cll.com |
| 29 | 224 | Browdy and Neimark, PLLC | www.browdyneimark.com |
| 30 | 211 | Allen, Dyer, Doppelt + Gilchrist, P.A. | https://allendyer.com/ |
| 31 | 204 | Kenja IP Law PC | https://www.kenjaip.com |
| 32 | 140 | MacMillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC | https://mstfirm.com/ |
| 33 | 134 | Woodard, Emhardt, Henry, Reeves & Wagner, LLP | www.uspatent.com |
| 34 | 128 | Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig | https://www.dbllawyers.com/ |
| 35 | 125 | Alliance IP | www.allianceip.com |
| 36 | 116 | Fogarty LLP | www.fogartyip.com |
| 37 | 92 | Jacobson Holman PLLC | jhip.com |
| 38 | 91 | Umberg Zipser LLP | www.umbergzipser.com |
| 39 | 89 | Smartpat PLC | https://www.smartpat.us/ |
| 40 | 37 | Thompson Patent Law | https://thompsonpatentlaw.com |
| 41 | 33 | Canady + Lortz LLP | canadylortz.com |
| 42 | 32 | Capitol City TechLaw, PLLC | www.capcitytechlaw.com |
| 42 | 32 | GrowIP Law Group LLC | https://www.growip.com/ |
| 42 | 32 | Offit Kurman | https://offitkurman.com/ |
| 45 | 31 | Siritzky Law PLLC | www.siritzkylaw.com |
| 46 | 28 | Polson IP Law | https://www.polsoniplaw.com/ |
| 47 | 24 | New England Intellectual Property, LLC | www.newenglandip.com |
| 48 | 21 | Aslan Law, P.C. | https://www.aslan.law |
| 49 | 19 | Thomas W. Galvani, P.C. | https://galvanilegal.com |
| 50 | 17 | Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC | www.oppedahl.com |
| 51 | 14 | PatentFile, LLC | www.patentfile.org |
| 52 | 13 | Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. | www.gklaw.com |
| 53 | 10 | Matrix Patent Agency | www.mxpatent.com |
| 53 | 10 | Rogowski Law LLC | www.rogowskilaw.com |
| 55 | 9 | Bycer & Marion, PLC | https://www.bycermarion.com/ |
| 56 | 4 | Ferraiuoli LLC | https://ferraiuoli.com/ |
| 56 | 4 | Michael J Brown Law Office LLC | www.mjbrownlaw.com |
| 56 | 4 | Norred Law, PLLC | www.norredlaw.com |
| 59 | 3 | Patents and Licensing LLC | www.patentsandlicensing.com |
You can also see the 2022 US Trademark Registration Toteboard and the 2022 US Design Patent Toteboard and the 2022 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 early 2024.