August 22, 2023, Weekly Utility Patent Insights

Welcome to the 22nd of August 2023: A glimpse at what’s new in weekly utility patent insights on recent patent grants that have been issued across various industries.

Interesting Insights:

1. Utility Patent Volume was 7,262 for the week.
2. Patent Attorney Firm (Fish & Richardson, P.C.) had the most number of patents issued (119 patents).
3. The most prolific Company was Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. with 126 patents.
4. The most prolific city for issued utility patents was San Jose, CA (US) with 252 patents.
5. The most prolific inventor was Tao Luo with 20 patents.- Location: California.- Want to see who’s in their sphere? Visit Tao’s collaboration wheel of co-inventors.
6. The most prolific female inventor was Lei Zhang with 4 patents.- Location: California
7. Added 4,680 new inventors, and 405 new companies.

Top 10 Inventors:

1. Tao Luo, 20 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
2. Junyi Li, 10 patents – Franklin Park, NJ (US)
3. Xiaoxia Zhang, 10 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
4. Kapil Gulati, 9 patents – Belle Mead, NJ (US)
5. Shan Liu, 9 patents – San Jose, CA (US)
6. Xiang Li, 8 patents – Beijing, CN
7. Chih-Hao Wang, 8 patents – Hsinchu, TW
8. Jing Sun, 8 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
9. Jinsam Kwak, 7 patents – Gyeonggi-do, KR
10. Frederick E. Shelton, IV, 6 patents – Hillsboro, OH (US)

Top 10 Attorneys:

1. Fish & Richardson P.C., 119 patents
2. Sughrue Mion, PLLC, 115 patents
3. Foley & Lardner LLP, 86 patents
4. Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C., 84 patents
5. Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A., 82 patents
6. Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P., 72 patents
7. JCIPRNET, 64 patents
8. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, 64 patents
9. Knobbe Martens Olson and Bear, LLP, 64 patents
10. Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP, 60 patents

Top 10 Companies:

1. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., 150 patents
2. International Business Machines Corporation, 99 patents
3. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., 86 patents
4. QUALCOMM INCORPORATED, 81 patents
5. APPLE INC., 74 patents
6. Micron Technology, Inc., 60 patents
7. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., 58 patents
8. TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, 49 patents
9. Other, 48 patents
10. Intel Corporation, 48 patents

Top 10 Cities:

1. San Jose, CA (US), 252 patents
2. Tokyo, JP, 224 patents
3. Seoul, KR, 210 patents
4. San Diego, CA (US), 182 patents
5. Beijing, CN, 179 patents
6. San Francisco, CA (US), 178 patents
7. Sunnyvale, CA (US), 136 patents
8. Suwon-si, KR, 130 patents
9. Hsinchu, TW, 113 patents
10. Kanagawa, JP, 106 patents

Top 10 Countries:

1. United States of America, 3,564 patents
2. Japan, 913 patents
3. China, 682 patents
4. South Korea, 515 patents
5. Germany, 370 patents
6. Taiwan, 318 patents
7. India, 233 patents
8. United Kingdom, 201 patents
9. Canada, 188 patents
10. France, 170 patents