The first week of January can be pretty slow for a lot of trademark practices, with the New Year holiday impacting productivity – albeit in a fun and good way. This post looks at the first week of the new year – Jan. 1 – Jan. 7, 2020. That’s a tiny slice of the year, but it’s still informative to see what happened in this small segment of time. Even in a “slow” week, almost 6,000 new trademark applications were filed. (There may be more in raw numbers if you read this in a few months, since Madrid-based applications and extensions of protection can take a while to propagate into the USPTO’s systems.)

This blog posts breaks down the data in several ways: the number of applications by country, by class, by applicant, and by filing counsel.

Applications by Country

The US (4,500 applications) and China (950) were far and away the two largest home countries of applicants, with Canada, Hong Kong, South Korea, and the UK all clearing the 50 application mark. Others with at least ten applications follow:

Country	Applications
USA	4540
China	951
Canada	79
Hong Kong	65
South Korea	53
United Kingdom	51
Israel	25
Taiwan	24
Germany	19
Australia	15
India	15
Japan	13
France	10

Most Common Filing Classes

What are all these applications actually being filed for? We broke down the filing data for you. Multi-class applications are counted separately, and I have included the top multi-class application combinations to provide some additional detail on the top areas of overlap.

Int. Cl.	Applications
25	567
41	466
9	455
35	389
28	199
36	197
3	195
42	195
5	176
21	156
16	148

The most common multi-class pairings follow. Most of these are to be expected: software and hosted software; software and entertainment services; miscellaneous service overlaps, clothing and retail, merchandised goods, and food products.

Int. Cl. Groupings	Applications
9; 42	57
9; 41	35
35; 42	28
35; 41	22
25; 41	19
35; 36	18
16; 41	15
25; 35	15
9; 16; 41	14
16; 25	13
29; 30	12

Busiest Applicants

The vast majority of applicants filed only a single application – there were 4,600 owners for those 6,000 applications. Only 250 filed more than three applications in the week; of these, a handful stood out for their filing volume. A couple of the largest applicants have large trademark portfolios, but most of the higher-volume applicants saw most of their total trademark filing activity in this week – not what we would have expected.

Applicant	Applications in Period	Total Applications
Adam $mith Laboratories, Inc.	24	32
CUBEAGE LIMITED	24	24
TALES IP, L.L.C.	22	45
International Fasteners, Inc.	16	27
XU BOXIN	14	17
Callisto Media Inc.	12	18
Exact Sciences Corporation	12	78
Miami Corporation	12	174
SG GAMING, INC.	12	1787
Guangzhou Shiyuan Electronic Technology Company Limited	11	21
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.	11	2822
BreathableBaby, LLC	10	55
Shanxi Huacai Zhongxing E-commerce Co., Ltd.	10	21

Busiest Filing Correspondents

We also ran the numbers on filing correspondents in the week. Those with ten or more applications in that week are included below. It’s a mix of busy practices – a number of large, multi-office and multi-practice firms, consumer-centric trademark shops, firms with strong ties to jurisdictions with high levels of filings into the US, and active smaller practices.

Correspondent Firm	Applications
LAW OFFICE OF YI WAN	119
LAW OFFICE OF TONY HOM	67
LEGALFORCE RAPC WORLDWIDE, P.C.	47
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONSULTING, LLC	46
DI LI LAW, P.C.	44
NI, WANG & MASSAND, PLLC	35
THE LICHY LAW FIRM, P.C.	35
LEGALZOOM LEGAL SERVICES, LTD.	34
GOLDMAN LAW GROUP	33
KOH LAW FIRM, LLC.	32
MUNCY, GEISSLER, OLDS & LOWE, P.C.	32
BAYRAMOGLU LAW OFFICES LLC	30
VALAUSKAS CORDER LLC	24
IPSPEEDY CONSULTING COMPANY, LLC	23
LOZA & LOZA, LLP	23
FOX ROTHSCHILD LLP	22
TALES IP, L.L.C.	22
ARENT FOX LLP	21
BARNES & THORNBURG LLP	21
LAW OFFICE OF CURT HANDLEY	17
FRIJOUF, RUST & PYLE, P.A.	16
MICHAEL BEST & FRIEDRICH LLP	16
K&L GATES LLP	15
SHAN ZHU LAW GROUP, P. C.	15
DLA PIPER LLP (US)	14
SAUSSER SUMMERS, PC	14
COBB COLE	13
PRYOR CASHMAN LLP	13
WINTHROP & WEINSTINE, P.A.	13
HOVEY WILLIAMS LLP	12
JPG LEGAL	12
LADAS & PARRY LLP	12
RIMON, P.C.	12
SCIENTIFIC GAMES CORPORATION	12
THE SLADKUS LAW GROUP	12
WARNER BROS ENTERTAINMENT INC.	12
BAKER & HOSTETLER LLP	11
BROWN BROTHERS LAW LLP	11
THE MCGHEE LAW FIRM	11
LAW OFFICES OF BENJAMIN LASKI	10
MERCHANT & GOULD P.C.	10
ROTHSCHILD & ASSOCIATES LLC	10
WEN IP LLC	10

Thanks for taking a look at this filing data from the first week of 2020!