On a quarterly basis Legal Advantage reports the top 20 companies and the top 20 law firms who were issued patents by the USPTO

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First Quarter 2009 - January 1, 2009 – March 31, 2009

 

Top 20 List - Companies

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Company

Number of Patents Issued

 

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Company

Number of Patents Issued

1

2

IBM

1955

11

10

Intel Corporation

369

2

1

Samsung Electronics

1294

12

13

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

342

3

5

Microsoft Corporation

668

13

9

Hewlett-Packard

322

4

6

Sony Corporation

539

14

12

Seiko Epson

299

5

7

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

489

15

N/A

General Electric

274

6

3

Hitachi

476

16

N/A

Nokia

259

7

13

Panasonic Corporation

462

17

N/A

Ricoh

257

8

N/A

LG Electronics

425

18

18

Micron Technology

248

9

4

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

404

19

N/A

Hondo Motor Co., Ltd.

232

10

8

Fujitsu

383

20

20

Cisco Technology, Inc.

225

*N/A – Not in Top 20 for the previous quarter

Top 20 List – Law Firms

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Law Firm

Number of Patents Issued

 

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Law Firm

Number of Patents Issued

1

1

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

1022

1

10

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

365

2

2

Sughrue Mion, PLLC

701

12

19

Cantor Colburn LLP

357

3

3

Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

631

13

11

Foley & Lardner LLP

348

4

4

Oliff & Berridge, PLC

617

14

15

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

332

5

6

Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.

493

15

12

Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP

319

6

13

Fish & Richardson P.C.

404

16

5

Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto

296

7

9

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.

401

17

16

Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

289

8

8

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

392

18

7

Staas & Halsey LLP

287

9

14

Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

380

19

17

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

268

10

N/A

Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

368

20

20

Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

249

*Source – USPTO April 2009

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