In Part II of our Using Juristat's Examiner Reports series, we looked at how attorneys can use Juristat Examiner Reports when deciding the best way to respond to an office action. In Part III, we will highlight Examiner Reports' historical analysis of your examiner's behavior. Because every examiner has his or her own unique opinions about patent law, looking into how they have responded to applicants in the past is a good indicator of how they will respond to you. 

In Part I of our Using Juristat's Examiner Reports series, we explained how understanding an examiner's key metrics can help you estimate expense, allocate resources, and manage client expectations. In this post, we'll take a closer look at responding to office actions, including interviews, appeals, and the effects of filing a continuation or continuation-in-part. 

Following up on our post from last week, the Top Firms in TC 2400, we now move on to the firms that receive the fewest office actions to allowance. Below, we’ve ranked the ten firms that receive the fewest office actions to allowance in TC 2400. To be eligible for inclusion, the firms must be based in the United States and have at least 500 disposed applications in the ten-year period between 2006 and 2015. 

Technology Center 2400 covers networking, multiplexing, cable, and security. The security and cryptography art units within the tech center were the subject of our previous post titled “Top Firms for Cybersecurity Patents.” The average allowance rate in TC 2400 is 72.8%, but the firms below have rates quite a bit higher. 

Now that we have revealed the top firms by allowance rate in TC 2100, we now turn our attention to the firms that receive the fewest office actions to allowance. Below, we’ve ranked the ten firms that receive the fewest office actions to allowance in TC 2100. To be eligible for inclusion, the firms must be based in the United States and have at least 500 disposed applications in the ten-year period between 2006 and 2015. 

If you're feeling down in the creative dumps this Halloween, there is no need to worry as we here at Juristat dove deep into the USPTO archives to round up two last-minute Halloween costume ideas for the patent-minded among us. This year you won’t be forced to venture out wearing a sheet in a disheartening attempt at portraying a generic ghost if you follow our step-by-step guide for putting together your own intellectual property-friendly witch or vampire costume. 

Technology Center 2100 covers computer technologies, including computer architecture, memory, databases, and software development. The average allowance rate in TC 2100 is 74.3%, which very nearly mirrors the USPTO average of 72%. Here, we’ve ranked the ten firms with the highest allowance rates in TC 2100. To be eligible for inclusion on this list, each firm must have disposed of at least 500 applications in the technology center in the 10-year period between 2006 and 2015. 

Continuing our study of firms that perform above average in several metrics in every technology center at the USPTO, we now turn our attention to the firms that receive the fewest office actions to allowance in TC 1700. As we have stated before, we simply report the facts. A low number of office actions could mean that a firm did not fight for as much claim scope as they could have, or it could mean that the firm was precise and targeted when writing their claims. Either way, fewer office actions generally indicates a more efficient and cheaper prosecution, which is something both firms and their clients can find merit in. 

Our Patent Examiner Reports give attorneys, agents, and in-house teams nearly limitless advantages over the competition. Every time you open an Examiner Report, our system performs over a billion calculations to return the most up-to-date information. As of this writing,

Juristat’s database covers approximately 9,000 active examiners in almost 900 art units. Not only that, we have data on nearly 8 million patent applications.

In this series of posts, we will go step-by-step through an Examiner Report and demonstrate just how useful Juristat can be.

We’ve got some exciting new features for you in the latest Examiner Reports release. You can read more about how to use these new features – and Juristat Examiner Reports in general – in our posts on managing client expectations and how Examiner Reports are power tools for patent lawyers. For now, here’s the quick rundown of the new stuff: