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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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Fourth Quarter 2009 - October 1, 2009 – December 31, 2009

Top 20 List – Law Firms

Current Rank	Law Firm	Number of Patents Issued – Q4	Current Rank	Law Firm	Number of Patents Issued – Q4
1	Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P. .	1001	11	Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP	387
2	Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP	790	12	Banner & Witcoff Ltd	359
3	Sughrue Mion, PLLC	766	13	Foley & Lardner LLP	343
4	Oliff & Berridge, PLC	611	14	McDermott Will & Emery LLP	340
5	Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.	522	15	Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP	337
6	Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto	469	16	Workman Nydegger	307
7	Fish & Richardson P.C.	440	17	Cantor Colburn LLP	297
8	Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.	413	18	Staas & Halsey LLP	284
9	Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.	405	19	Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione	282
10	Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman	394	20	Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.	270

*N/A – Not in Top 20 for the previous quarter
**Source – USPTO December 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	Company	Number of Patents Issued - Q4	Current Rank	Company	Number of Patents Issued - Q4
1	Samsung	1206	11	Intel Corporation	357
2	Microsoft Corporation	908	12	Siemens Aktiengesellschaft	348
3	International Business Machines Corporation	713	13	Seiko Epson Corporation	346
4	Canon Kabushiki Kaisha	694	14	General Electric Company	316
5	Hitachi, Ltd.	593	15	Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.	310
6	Sony Corporation	592	16	NEC Corporation	268
7	LG	556	17	Cisco Technology, Inc.	265
8	Panasonic Corporation	503	18	Fujifilm Corporation	257
9	Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba	500	19	Honda Motor Co., Ltd.	254
10	Fujitsu Limited	468	20	Nokia Corporation	246

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