November 21, 2023, Weekly Utility, Design and Plant Patents Insights

Welcome to the 21st of November 2023: A glimpse at what’s new in weekly utility, design and plant patents insights on recent patent grants that have been issued across various industries.

Interesting Insights:

1. Patent Volume was 7,377 for the week, including 6,648 Utility, 710 Design, and 19 Plant Patents.
2. Patent Attorney Firm (Sughrue Mion, PLLC) had the most number of patents issued (97 patents).
3. The most prolific Company was Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. with 121 patents.
4. The most prolific city for issued utility patents was Tokyo, JP with 274 patents.
5. The most prolific inventor was Tao Luo with 18 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 Yan Zhou with 7 patents.- Location: California
7. Added 5,534 new inventors, and 456 new companies.

Recent Posts:

• Recognizing Inventors with Centurion+ Utility, Design and Plant Patents as of November 14, 2023
• November 14, 2023, Weekly Utility Patent Insights
• Famous Inventors Born in November!

Recent Videos:

• New Innovation of Inventors | November 14
• New Innovation of Inventors This Week | November 7
• Marie Curie | First Woman to Win the Nobel Prize

Patent History:

• Bee Dance | Nobel Prize
• Traffic Signal
• Thermos
• First Computer Mouse
• Coca-Cola Contour Bottle
• King Gillette’s Safety Razor
• Tapeworm Trap
• Scotchgard

Top Global Statistics by 2023

Top 10 Inventors:

1. Tao Luo, 18 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
2. Xiaoxia Zhang, 13 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
3. Li Zhang, 11 patents – Los Angeles, CA (US)
4. Peter Gaal, 11 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
5. Esmael Hejazi Dinan, 11 patents – McLean, VA (US)
6. Junyi Li, 10 patents – Chester, NJ (US)
7. Wanshi Chen, 9 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
8. Jing Sun, 9 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
9. Kai Zhang, 9 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
10. Jonathan P. Ive, 7 patents – San Francisco, CA (US)

10 Most forward citations growth:

1. Frederick E Shelton, IV, +684 – Hillsboro, OH (US)
2. Ammar Al-Ali, +346 – San Juan Capistrano, CA (US)
3. Jonathan P Ive, +269 – San Francisco, CA (US)
4. Duncan Robert Kerr, +261 – San Francisco, CA (US)
5. Bartley K Andre, +242 – Palo Alto, CA (US)
6. Richard P Howarth, +238 – San Francisco, CA (US)
7. Eugene Antony Whang, +229 – San Francisco, CA (US)
8. Peter N Russell-Clarke, +215 – San Francisco, CA (US)
9. Christopher J Stringer, +208 – Woodside, CA (US)
10. Frank J Viola, +206 – Sandy Hook, CT (US)

Top 10 Attorneys:

1. Sughrue Mion, PLLC, 97 patents
2. Fish & Richardson P.C., 95 patents
3. CANTOR COLBURN LLP, 82 patents
4. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, 75 patents
5. FOLEY & LARDNER LLP, 72 patents
6. Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, 69 patents
7. Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP, 69 patents
8. Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C., 68 patents
9. Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A., 68 patents
10. JCIPRNET, 67 patents

Top 10 Companies:

1. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., 134 patents
2. QUALCOMM Incorporated, 99 patents
3. Apple Inc., 94 patents
4. Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, 81 patents
5. TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., 74 patents
6. International Business Machines Corporation, 73 patents
7. Samsung Display Co., Ltd., 66 patents
8. Other, 65 patents
9. HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, 49 patents
10. LG ELECTRONICS INC., 47 patents

Top 10 Cities:

1. Tokyo, JP, 274 patents
2. San Jose, CA (US), 247 patents
3. Seoul, KR, 231 patents
4. San Francisco, CA (US), 176 patents
5. San Diego, CA (US), 173 patents
6. Beijing, CN, 151 patents
7. Sunnyvale, CA (US), 128 patents
8. Suwon-si, KR, 125 patents
9. Shenzhen, CN, 120 patents
10. Kanagawa, JP, 110 patents

Top 10 Countries:

1. United States of America, 3,433 patents
2. Japan, 932 patents
3. China, 858 patents
4. South Korea, 527 patents
5. Germany, 388 patents
6. Taiwan, 264 patents
7. India, 207 patents
8. Canada, 197 patents
9. United Kingdom, 181 patents
10. France, 166 patents

Inventors per Patents over Time