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Resolve to Streamline Your Patent Practice

How can you improve your patent practice? What changes can you make that will have the greatest impact on your current business strategy? The answer can likely be found with AI-powered legal tech. 

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New in Juristat: OAR Dashboard, More Intuitive Search, Alerts Forwarding, and Expanded Help Center

To keep up with all the innovative thinkers who use Juristat, we are excited to share some new updates to our tools.

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Why Competitive Intelligence Is a Game Changer for In-House Patent Teams

Intellectual property is the foundation for building a significant competitive advantage for businesses of any size. Companies need to keep a constant eye out for new competitors and advantageous legal partnerships to stay ahead.

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Firms and Companies in front of Difficult Examiners

Which Firms and Companies Prosecute in Front of the Most Difficult Examiners? (2021 Report)

Patent attorneys run into the same examiners from time to time, but what happens when that particular examiner happens to be one of the most difficult at the USPTO?

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The Best Way to Evaluate Firm Cost and Quality

There are many ways to evaluate the value of your outside counsel, whether using general success metrics or quality indicators like timeliness and ease of communication. But perhaps the most valuable indicator may be the average cost of an issued patent prosecuted by the firm.

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Identifying (and Pruning) Patent Maintenance Fees That Don’t Benefit Your Business

Companies of all sizes want to make sure that the patents in their portfolio are worth the maintenance fees they spend to maintain ownership. Modeling maintenance fee spend can help you identify ineffective patents that you can offload to ensure proper investment in more important initiatives.

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Predicting (And Avoiding) High-Cost Patent Prosecution

Predicting (And Avoiding) High-Cost Patent Prosecution

No matter your ultimate patent goals, modeling prosecution spend on pending cases can help you identify outlier applications and avoid lengthy, costly prosecution.

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Examiners Who Procrastinate the Most – And How They Can Help You Get Your Next Allowance (2021)

The USPTO has an official term for examiner procrastination - end-loading. An interesting metric to be sure, but how can you use examiner procrastination to your advantage in patent prosecution?

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Building a Scorecard to Analyze Firm Performance

Whether you are a part of a corporate IP team or at a law firm, creating a standardized, data-driven approach to analyze prosecution performance is imperative to your success.

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Examiners Who Issue the Most Office Actions (2021)

An ideal patent prosecution is quick, cost-efficient, and ultimately successful. The more office actions an application receives, the longer, more expensive, and less viable an application becomes.

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