Knobbe Martens
Public patent records for Knobbe Martens, 1978–2025: 16,393 patent families shared with other firms for 4,940 clients (applicants). Sign in to explore the app’s partner network, selected filing periods, filing activity, and client relationships.
- Patent families shared with other firms
- 16,393
- 1978–2025. One family can be counted more than once.
- Activity 2016–2020
- 4,570
- Distinct families per year, summed over the last five complete years. 2021 onward is still being published.
- Clients (applicants)
- 4,940
- Applicants named on these families, all recorded years. Not a full client list.
- Firms shown below
- 5
Activity trend (2017–2026)
- Scope
- Knobbe Martens · United States
- Filing years
- 2017–2025
- Unit
- Distinct families per year
2021–2026 are preliminary. Patent filings publish about 18 months after filing, and foreign filings can enter later, so these counts are still filling in.
Each family counts once within a year. A family may recur in multiple years.
View annual counts
| Year | Distinct families per year |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 1,236 |
| 2018 | 891 |
| 2019 | 639 |
| 2020 | 514 |
| 2021 · preliminary | 332 |
| 2022 · preliminary | 265 |
| 2023 · preliminary | 67 |
| 2024 · preliminary | 69 |
| 2025 · preliminary | 1 |
Technology fields it focuses on
Fields where this firm's share of patent families is well above the average for United States firms, 2018–2022.
| Field | Share of its families | vs United States average |
|---|---|---|
| Devices for introducing media into, or onto, the body; devices for transducing body media or for taking media from the body; devices for producing or ending sleep or stuporIPC/CPC A61M | 9.3% | 4.2× |
| Filters implantable into blood vessels; prostheses; devices providing patency to, or preventing collapsing of, tubular structures of the body, e.g. stents; orthopaedic, nursing or contraceptive devices; fomentation; treatment or protection of eyes or ears; bandages, dressings or absorbent pads; first-aid kitsIPC/CPC A61F | 5.6% | 3.7× |
| Methods or apparatus for sterilising materials or objects in general; disinfection, sterilisation or deodorisation of air; chemical aspects of bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articles; materials for bandages, dressings, absorbent pads or surgical articlesIPC/CPC A61L | 2.1% | 2.4× |
| Diagnosis; surgery; identificationIPC/CPC A61B | 12.2% | 2.4× |
| Measuring or testing processes involving enzymes, nucleic acids or microorganisms; compositions or test papers therefor; processes of preparing such compositions; condition-responsive control in microbiological or enzymological processesIPC/CPC C12Q | 2.3% | 2.1× |
Yearly counts for 2018–2022, added up: 2,806 of 4,294 families carry an IPC or CPC classification. Shares are of those classified families, and one family can fall in several fields.
Frequently associated firms
Firms that most often appear on the same patent families. One family can be counted more than once, so these are not unique totals.
Similar United States firms
Yearly counts since 1990, added up. One family can be counted more than once.
- Finnegan Henderson15,572 shared patent families
- Nixon Vanderhye18,081 shared patent families
- Wenderoth Lind & Ponack14,374 shared patent families
- Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney14,095 shared patent families
- McDermott Will Emery14,068 shared patent families
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