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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Third Quarter 2009 - July 1, 2009 – September 30, 2009

 

Top 20 List – Law Firms

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Law Firm

Number of Patents Issued – Q3

 

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Law Firm

Number of Patents Issued – Q3

1

1

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

945

11

9

Foley & Lardner LLP

381

2

2

Sughrue Mion, PLLC

868

12

8

Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

373

3

3

Oliff & Berridge, PLC

680

13

7

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

349

4

4

Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

654

14

20

Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

320

5

5

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

536

15

18

Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

319

6

17

Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP

453

16

20

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

318

7

10

Fish & Richardson P.C.

420

17

17

Cantor Colburn LLP

272

8

6

Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto

414

18

15

Staas & Halsey LLP

254

9

14

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

403

19

16

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

241

10

12

Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

385

20

N/A

Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

237

*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 - Q3

 

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Company

Number of Patents Issued - Q3

1

1

Samsung Electronics

1254

11

11

Intel Corporation

385

2

2

Microsoft Corporation

819

12

14

Seiko Epson

371

3

3

IBM

772

13

13

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

330

4

6

Hitachi

578

14

12

Hewlett-Packard

317

5

9

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

562

15

20

General Electricic

294

6

4

LG Electronics

524

16

17

Ricoh

243

7

7

Sony Corporation

508

17

16

Honda Motor

233

8

8

Panasonic Corporation

490

18

18

Micron Technology

232

9

9

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

471

19

N/A

Cisco Technology

220

10

10

Fujitsu

387

20

15

Nokia

205

*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.  Numbers may be lower or higher due to divestitures, acquisitions, mergers and / or incomplete subsidiary information.  Legal Advantage attempts to capture information from  aforementioned events, however due to timing and availability of information it is not always possible.

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