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Metrics for IP teams to evaluate outside patent counsel

5 Best Metrics to Evaluate Outside Counsel

Evaluating outside counsel is a crucial task for in-house patent teams seeking a valuable legal partner. While it may be easy to simply pick the biggest name firm, or choose based on word-of-mouth, that might not always be the best fit for your business. 

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How to Discover Competitors You Didn’t Even Know Existed

Competition is a vital component of doing business, especially for patent teams. Competition forces you to innovate, finding creative solutions to protect and grow every patent portfolio on your books.

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Predicting USPTO examiner behavior is key but without the right data, you’re just guessing. Here are five metrics for a more successful prosecution.

5 Best Metrics for Predicting Examiner Behavior

Will an interview lead to an allowance? Should you appeal? Is it time to abandon? How long is too long between filing and the first office action? As an experienced patent professional, you know that predicting examiner behavior is key to finding the shortest path to an allowance, but without the right data, you’re just guessing.

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Patent analytics drive better prosecution outcomes. Here are the 6 ways to use Juristat Analytics to help you protect your client’s budget.

6 Best Ways To Control Your Spending With Patent Analytics

Patent analytics drive better prosecution outcomes – including less time to allowance, improved client relationships, and, crucially, increased profitability.

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4 Ways Workflow Automation Can Prevent Staff Burnout

4 Ways Workflow Automation Can Prevent Staff Burnout

Burnout can lead to an increased risk of error, lower productivity, and increased employee turnover.

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Moving to a new process with a new workflow automation vendor can be daunting. Here are four simple ways to eliminate the fear of switching up your process.

Are You Worried About Switching Legal Tech Vendors?

When responding to office actions or generating IDSs, you know your current process is not working. Is bringing on a new legal tech vendor worth the switching costs?

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Five questions to ask to ensure your outside patent firm’s performance is maximizing profit and IP value.

5 Questions To Ask When Evaluating Outside Counsel

Your patent portfolio is your future, and you want to make sure it is in the best hands possible, legally speaking.

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A patent attorney gives business advice to a client, helping to grow the attorney's practice.

Go From Attorney to Advisor With 102 Forward Cite Reports

By strategically leveraging 102 Forward Cite Reports, you can increase your value by acting as an advisor, not just an attorney. 

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Patent professional labeling a figure drawing

3 Ways Figure Drawings Are Hurting Your Patent Practice – And What You Can Do About It

If your work as a patent professional primarily falls under the header of mechanical or electrical engineering, you know, maybe more than most, that annotating figure drawings takes up valuable time and mental bandwidth.

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Juristat OAR legal tech saved law firm Harness IP time

Recession Proofing Your Patent Practice

It may be more polite to say we’re operating in “uncertain times,” and boy, are they. But the not-so-polite reality is, we’re in a recession. 

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