Finding your patents

Since 1990, 4,008,329 utility patents have won U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approval. In 2014 alone, the USPTO granted more than 300,000 of them. And those awards went to a wide range of patenting entities — 38,000 of them, in fact.

If you do legal work for companies of any size, those clients of yours likely own at least one patent and may have quite a few (several hundred entities received 40 or more patent grants just in 2014). Do you have any idea how many or what inventions they cover?

Don’t worry if you don’t. You can get a list and see a copy of the patents in no time flat.
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