November 28, 2023, Weekly Utility, Design and Plant Patents Insights
November 28, 2023
Welcome to the 28th 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:
- Patent Volume was 7,385 for the week, including 6,643 Utility, 731 Design, and 11 Plant Patents.
- Patent Attorney Firm (Fish & Richardson, P.C.) had the most number of patents issued (112 patents).
- The most prolific Company was SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. with 120 patents.
- The most prolific city for issued utility patents was Tokyo, JP with 264 patents.
- The most prolific inventor was Tao Luo with 26 patents.- Location: California.- Want to see who’s in their sphere? Visit Tao’s collaboration wheel of co-inventors.
- The most prolific female inventor was Molly Anderson with 7 patents.- Location: California
- Added 4,878 new inventors, and 369 new companies.
Top 10 Inventors:
- Tao Luo, 26 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
- Junyi Li, 23 patents – Franklin Park, NJ (US)
- Duncan Robert Kerr, 10 patents – San Francisco, CA (US)
- Navid Abedini, 10 patents – Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
- Bartley K. Andre, 9 patents – Palo Alto, CA (US)
- Shota Aoyagi, 9 patents – San Francisco, CA (US)
- Martha Evans Hankey, 9 patents – San Francisco, CA (US)
- Richard P. Howarth, 9 patents – San Francisco, CA (US)
- Peter Russell-Clarke, 9 patents – San Francisco, CA (US)
- Frederick E. Shelton, IV, 8 patents – Hillsboro, OH (US)
10 Most forward citations growth:
- Frederick E Shelton, IV, +9,455 – Hillsboro, OH (US)
- Jason L Harris, +3,157 – Lebanon, OH (US)
- Jerome R Morgan, +2,671 – Cincinnati, OH (US)
- Jeffrey S Swayze, +1,745 – West Chester, OH (US)
- Chester O Baxter, III, +1,688 – Loveland, OH (US)
- David C Yates, +1,555 – West Chester, OH (US)
- Frank J Viola, +1,198 – Sandy Hook, CT (US)
- Charles J Scheib, +888 – Loveland, OH (US)
- William Bruce Weisenburgh, II, +861 – Maineville, OH (US)
- Gregory J Bakos, +808 – Mason, OH (US)
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- Top 100 Inventors of Each Country
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Patent History:
Top Global Statistics by 2023
Top 10 Attorneys:
- Fish & Richardson P.C., 112 patents
- Sughrue Mion, PLLC, 88 patents
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, 82 patents
- Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, 73 patents
- Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP, 71 patents
- CANTOR COLBURN LLP, 67 patents
- Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A., 65 patents
- Foley & Lardner, LLP, 62 patents
- Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P., 59 patents
- Venable LLP, 56 patents
Top 10 Companies:

Top 10 Countries:
- United States of America, 3,631 patents
- China, 871 patents
- Japan, 859 patents
- South Korea, 513 patents
- Germany, 346 patents
- Taiwan, 303 patents
- Canada, 216 patents
- India, 207 patents
- United Kingdom, 189 patents
- France, 129 patents
Top 10 Cities:
- Tokyo, JP, 264 patents
- San Jose, CA (US), 237 patents
- Seoul, KR, 203 patents
- San Diego, CA (US), 185 patents
- San Francisco, CA (US), 171 patents
- Beijing, CN, 171 patents
- Shenzhen, CN, 139 patents
- Suwon-si, KR, 130 patents
- Kanagawa, JP, 124 patents
- Sunnyvale, CA (US), 106 patents
Patents & GDP per capita by US States
