Tracy-Gene G. Durkin, director at the intellectual property law firm Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.L.L.C., examines data and trends from the Intellectual Property Owners Association's 2014 IP Record. Ms. Durkin highlights the relentless, decade long, growth of design patents and analyzes the IPO's list of the top 50 U.S. design patent grantees of 2013.