March 2, 2021 Patents by Numbers
There were 7,135 new patents issued at the US Patent Office, not counting the Design and Reissue patents. There were 3,740 patents issued to inventors in the United States broken out by state in the following:
Below is the breakdown for the top countries assignee new patents issued:
There were 20 new patents issued with “blockchain” in the patent claims. Advanced New Technologies continues to add to their patent holdings with another 6 blockchain related patents for the week and a total of 22 new issued patents for the week.
There were 16 new patents issued with “Electric Vehicle” in the patent claims.
The table below is some of the top Assignees of the week. IBM and Samsung continue to lead the weekly pack for new patent grants.
The top ten longest time to patent grant for the week with patent 10,937,092 coming in at a whopping 6,017 days pending with a series of non-final & final rejections along with petitions. The Ebay patent is also really interesting. It must have hundreds of patent and non patent references cited and was rejected at the USPTO 9 times. Congratulations to the inventors at Ebay and the legal team at Mintz Levin
The top ten shortest time to patent grant for the week was between 110 and 139 days. Well done to the teams!