November 28, 2023, Weekly Utility, Design and Plant Patents Insights

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:
  1. Patent Volume was 7,385 for the week, including 6,643 Utility, 731 Design, and 11 Plant Patents.
  2. Patent Attorney Firm (Fish & Richardson, P.C.) had the most number of patents issued (112 patents).
  3. The most prolific Company was SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. with 120 patents.
  4. The most prolific city for issued utility patents was Tokyo, JP with 264 patents.
  5. 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.
  6. The most prolific female inventor was Molly Anderson with 7 patents.- Location: California
  7. Added 4,878 new inventors, and 369 new companies.
Top 10 Inventors:
  1. Tao Luo, 26 patents – San Diego, CA (US)
  2. Junyi Li, 23 patents – Franklin Park, NJ (US)
  3. Duncan Robert Kerr, 10 patents – San Francisco, CA (US)
  4. Navid Abedini, 10 patents – Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
  5. Bartley K. Andre, 9 patents – Palo Alto, CA (US)
  6. Shota Aoyagi, 9 patents – San Francisco, CA (US)
  7. Martha Evans Hankey, 9 patents – San Francisco, CA (US)
  8. Richard P. Howarth, 9 patents – San Francisco, CA (US)
  9. Peter Russell-Clarke, 9 patents – San Francisco, CA (US)
  10. Frederick E. Shelton, IV, 8 patents – Hillsboro, OH (US)
10 Most forward citations growth:
  1. Frederick E Shelton, IV, +9,455 – Hillsboro, OH (US)
  2. Jason L Harris, +3,157 – Lebanon, OH (US)
  3. Jerome R Morgan, +2,671 – Cincinnati, OH (US)
  4. Jeffrey S Swayze, +1,745 – West Chester, OH (US)
  5. Chester O Baxter, III, +1,688 – Loveland, OH (US)
  6. David C Yates, +1,555 – West Chester, OH (US)
  7. Frank J Viola, +1,198 – Sandy Hook, CT (US)
  8. Charles J Scheib, +888 – Loveland, OH (US)
  9. William Bruce Weisenburgh, II, +861 – Maineville, OH (US)
  10. Gregory J Bakos, +808 – Mason, OH (US)
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Top 10 Attorneys:
  1. Fish & Richardson P.C., 112 patents
  2. Sughrue Mion, PLLC, 88 patents
  3. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, 82 patents
  4. Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, 73 patents
  5. Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP, 71 patents
  6. CANTOR COLBURN LLP, 67 patents
  7. Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A., 65 patents
  8. Foley & Lardner, LLP, 62 patents
  9. Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P., 59 patents
  10. Venable LLP, 56 patents
Top 10 Companies:
Top 10 Countries:
  1. United States of America, 3,631 patents
  2. China, 871 patents
  3. Japan, 859 patents
  4. South Korea, 513 patents
  5. Germany, 346 patents
  6. Taiwan, 303 patents
  7. Canada, 216 patents
  8. India, 207 patents
  9. United Kingdom, 189 patents
  10. France, 129 patents

Top 10 Cities:
  1. Tokyo, JP, 264 patents
  2. San Jose, CA (US), 237 patents
  3. Seoul, KR, 203 patents
  4. San Diego, CA (US), 185 patents
  5. San Francisco, CA (US), 171 patents
  6. Beijing, CN, 171 patents
  7. Shenzhen, CN, 139 patents
  8. Suwon-si, KR, 130 patents
  9. Kanagawa, JP, 124 patents
  10. Sunnyvale, CA (US), 106 patents
Patents & GDP per capita by US States
Angelina Kushnarova

Angelina Kushnarova (Sverediuk) was born in Ukraine. She graduated from Ternopil Medical University with a specialization in Medicine and completed an internship in Radiology at Lviv University. She worked as a Radiologist, while also working as a web developer.

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