Weekly Interesting Insights

Weekly (Sep 15, 2026) USPTO Utility, Design and Plant Patents data.

  1. Patent Volume was 7,513 for the week, including 6,883 Utility, 618 Design, and 12 Plant Patents.
  2. Patent Attorney Firm (Sughrue Mion PLLC) had the most number of patents issued (126 patents).
  3. The most prolific
    Company was SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. with 180 patents.
  4. The most prolific
    city for issued patents was Tokyo, JP with 314 patents.
  5. The most prolific
    inventor was Sarbajit K. Rakshit with 13 patents.

    - Location: Kolkata, IN.

    - Want to see who’s in their sphere? Visit Sarbajit’s collaboration wheel of co-inventors.

  6. The most prolific
    female inventor was Andrea Beth Kalvig with 6 patents.

    - Location: Iowa

  7. Added 2,105 new inventors, 294 new companies.


Top Inventors:

  1. Sarbajit K. Rakshit - 13
  2. Tao Luo - 13
  3. Ruilong Xie - 10
  4. Takahiro Nishi - 9
  5. Yi Zhang - 8
  6. Yan Zhou - 8
  7. Jeremy R. Fox - 7
  8. Wei Hong - 7
  9. Wanshi Chen - 7
  10. Mostafa Khoshnevisan - 7
  11. Esmael Hejazi Dinan - 7
  12. Andrea Beth Kalvig - 6
  13. Sony Akkarakaran - 6
  14. Hao Xu - 6
  15. Koji Kusunoki - 6

Top Universities:

  1. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - 10
  2. The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University - 9
  3. THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - 9
  4. SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION - 8
  5. City University of Hong Kong - 7
  6. KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - 6
  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 6
  8. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - 5
  9. BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM - 4
  10. KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION - 4

Top Attorneys:

  1. Sughrue Mion, PLLC - 126
  2. Fish & Richardson P.C. - 95
  3. JCIPRNET - 88
  4. Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP - 88
  5. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP - 86
  6. CANTOR COLBURN LLP - 83
  7. Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. - 75
  8. Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP - 70
  9. Foley & Lardner LLP - 65
  10. Oliff PLC - 64
  11. XSENSUS LLP - 54
  12. Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP - 51
  13. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP - 49
  14. MUNCY, GEISSLER, OLDS & LOWE, P.C. - 47
  15. NIXON & VANDERHYE - 46

Top Companies:

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. - 180
  2. International Business Machines Corporation - 94
  3. QUALCOMM Incorporated - 91
  4. CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA - 75
  5. Samsung Display Co., Ltd. - 69
  6. TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA - 58
  7. LG ELECTRONICS INC. - 54
  8. Apple Inc. - 47
  9. LG DISPLAY CO., LTD. - 45
  10. GOOGLE LLC - 44
  11. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. - 43
  12. BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD - 42
  13. TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) - 42
  14. Hyundai Motor Company - 40
  15. Kia Corporation - 40

Top Cities:

  1. Tokyo, JP - 314
  2. Beijing, CN - 242
  3. Seoul, KR - 228
  4. San Jose, CA (US) - 201
  5. Suwon-si, KR - 178
  6. Shenzhen, CN - 173
  7. San Diego, CA (US) - 169
  8. San Francisco, CA (US) - 159
  9. Kanagawa, JP - 128
  10. Shanghai, CN - 116

The USPTO issued 193,868 US trademark registrations for the week ending Sep 15, 2026.

The goal of this weekly report is to list the firms that helped clients to obtain these registrations.

It ranks the firms according to the number of US trademark registrations received weekly.

  1. Greenberg Traurig LLP - 815
  2. Legalforce RAPC Worldwide - 675
  3. Bayramoglu Law Offices LLC - 655
  4. Sang Young Han - 621
  5. Barnes & Thornburg - 605
  6. Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP - 594
  7. Muncy Geissler Olds & Lowe, PC - 565
  8. Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu PC - 521
  9. All West Law Group, Pllc - 517
  10. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP - 507

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