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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Second Quarter 2009 - April 1, 2009 – June 30, 2009

 

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.

1164

11

14

Fish & Richardson P.C.

389

2

2

Sughrue Mion, PLLC

754

12

9

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

384

3

4

Oliff & Berridge, PLC

657

13

15

Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

378

4

3

Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

615

14

14

Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP

374

5

5

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

555

15

18

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

366

6

16

Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto L.L.P.

452

16

20

Staas & Halsey LLP

324

7

8

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

413

17

12

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

321

8

T-10

Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

411

18

17

Cantor Colburn LLP

299

9

13

Foley & Lardner LLP

398

19

19

Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

266

10

7

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

392

20

T-10

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

260

*N/A – Not in Top 20 for the previous quarter
**Source – USPTO October 2009
**Data is subject to change as there may be some lag time in publishing issued patents data by the USPTO. 

Top 20 List - Companies

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Company

Number of Patents Issued

 

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Company

Number of Patents Issued

1

1

IBM

1449

11

11

Intel Corporation

430

2

2

Samsung Electronics

1319

12

14

Seiko Epson

395

3

3

Microsoft Corporation

768

13

13

Hewlett-Packard

354

4

6

Hitachi

630

14

12

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

336

5

9

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

598

15

20

General Electric

309

6

4

Sony Corporation

578

16

17

Ricoh

297

7

7

Panasonic Corporation

549

17

16

Nokia

296

8

8

LG Electronics

495

18

18

Micron Technology, Inc.

263

9

9

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

484

19

N/A

Cisco Technology, Inc.

224

10

10

Fujitsu

437

20

15

Honda Motir Co., Ltd.

209

*N/A – Not in Top 20 for the previous quarter
**Source – USPTO July 2009
**Data is subject to change as there may be some lag time in publishing issued patents data by the USPTO. 

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