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Examiners Who Love (and Hate) to Interview (2021)
How do interviews impact your chance at an allowance? Our analysis found that 92% of examiners are more likely to allow an application when an interview is part of the prosecution.
Get Ready for a New Year: 5 Things Your Law Firm Needs to Stop Doing Now
Patent prosecution demands agility and innovation. Successful law firms embrace a culture of continuous self-assessment, regularly refining strategies to stay competitive.
Was the 2019 Revised Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance Successful?
For years, Alice has been a source of frustration for many patent practitioners. New guidance released by the USPTO in 2019 promised to provide some consistency. It’s now been two years — has anything changed?
Key Takeaways from the 2020 USPTO Performance and Accountability Report
Each year, the USPTO releases a Performance and Accountability Report that analyzes the agency’s performance and evaluates how well it met the goals of its five-year Strategic Plan. Here are the key takeaways from the 2020 report.
Growing Your Firm in 2021: Advice from Top Growing and Emerging IP Firms
After a tumultuous 2020, many IP firms are refocusing their efforts on growth in 2021. Here, we share advice from patent leaders at Slater Matsil, Procopio, and Quarles & Brady.
Technology Center Deep Dive: A Look at TC 2600
Technology Center 2600 handles communications-related technologies. This includes telephonic communications, speech processing, digital and optical communications, and computer graphic processing.
The Most Difficult Examiners by Technology Center (2021)
Patent professionals who specialize in a specific type of technology may run into the same examiners from time to time. If that examiner is one of the most difficult in the technology center, knowledge of past performance may be the difference between an allowance and an abandonment.
The Most Difficult Examiners at the USPTO (2021)
We continue our annual tradition of identifying the 10 USPTO examiners with the most skeptical eye toward the patent applications that cross their desks.
New in Juristat: Attorney Metrics
With our new attorney metrics, firms and in-house counsel can better monitor the performance of individual patent professionals.
Technology Center Deep Dive: A Look at TC 2100
Technology Center 2100 handles computer architecture and software, with art unit groups focused on computer reliability and control systems, memory access, computer architecture, databases and file management, software development, artificial intelligence (AI), and graphical user interfaces.
Are you ready to transform your patent practice?
Patent prosecution is complex – we know. If you’re ready for simpler workflows and more predictable outcomes, give us a call.