Patent Buddy Releases Top 100 Law Firms List
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Written by Gene Quinn President & Founder of IPWatchdog, Inc. Patent Attorney, Reg. No. 44,294 Zies, Widerman & Malek E-mail | Blog | Twitter | LinkedIn Posted: Aug 24, 2009 @ 10:01 pm 
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UPDATED: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 11:54am Eastern
It has come to my attention that the Patent Buddy Top 100 seems to be flawed. I have been contacted by one firm on the Top 100 list and told that number of patents they obtained in 2008 is at least double what is listed on the list. I then did a search for myself and confirmed this, and subsequently searched a few other firms using the USPTO database and confirmed other discrepancies. That being the case, I do not feel comfortable leaving this list up on my site.
Here is the lead in paragraph I wrote for the story:
Patent Buddy, the most extensive database and networking website for patent attorneys and inventors, just released its Top 100 Patent Law Firms to complement its Top 300 Patenting Organizations. The top law firms were determined based upon the number of patents the firm obtained on behalf of clients in 2008. Similarly, the top 300 organizations were determined based on the number of patents obtained in 2008. The top 25 patent firms are reproduced below, with the number of patents obtained in parenthesis.
Because there seems to be a number of inconsistencies I have removed the top 25 list I published, which was taken from the Patent Buddy list.
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Eugene R. Quinn, Jr.
President & Founder of IPWatchdog, Inc. US Patent Attorney (Reg. No. 44,294) Zies, Widerman & Malek B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Rutgers University J.D., Franklin Pierce Law Center L.L.M. in Intellectual Property, Franklin Pierce Law Center Send me an e-mail  |
Gene Quinn is a US Patent Attorney, law professor and the founder of IPWatchdog.com. He is also a principal lecturer in the top patent bar review course in the nation, which helps aspiring patent attorneys and patent agents prepare themselves to pass the patent bar exam. Known by many as “The IPWatchdog,” Gene started the widely popular intellectual property website IPWatchdog.com in 1999, and since that time the site has had millions of unique visitors. Gene has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the LA Times, CNN Money, NPR and various other newspapers and magazines worldwide. He represents individuals, small businesses and start-up corporations. As an electrical engineer with a computer engineering focus his specialty is electronic and computer devices, Internet applications, software and business methods.
Gene,
The Patent Buddy list relates only to patents obtained for the 300 companies that receive most patents from the USPTO. Clearly, most – if not all – of the firms on the top 100 list will also represent other clients, which is why the overall number of patents that the firms obtain will not correlate to the numbers detailed by Patent Buddy. That could explain the disparities you and the firm that contacted you have found.
All the best,
Joff
Joff-
Thanks for this clarification. I also received the same information from Patent Buddy. Perhaps I did not look closely enough at the list, but it seemed that others were having the same trouble interpreting the results that I was (once the problem was pointed out to me). That being the case, and since I was not in charge of compiling the list and I want to do whatever I can to maintain what I believe is my reputation for accuracy, I chose to remove the list from IPWatchdog.com. Perhaps I over reacted, I don’t know. What I do know is that I was not comfortable with the list when inquiries were be made of me and about the list. I erred on the side of caution, no doubt.
-Gene