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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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Legal professional overworked with administrative tasks related to patent practice.

Are Administrative Tasks Burying Your Firm?

Administrative tasks are burying you and your firm. The right legal technology can help dig you out.

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How AI can make your day easier

5 Ways AI Can Make the Day Better for IP Professionals

The rest of the world may be enjoying the lazy days of summer, but as a patent professional, you are gearing up for the end of the USPTO’s fiscal year, also known as their incredibly busy season. As you’re facing an influx of office actions or are still buried in an especially complicated IDS, you may be looking for ways to simplify your day and streamline your processes. 

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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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Juristat’s normalized allowance rate factors in both average examiner allowance rate and the USPTO average allowance rate to provide a more specific metric to guide your patent prosecution strategy.

What Is a Normalized Allowance Rate?

Juristat’s normalized allowance rate factors in both average examiner allowance rate and the USPTO average allowance rate to provide a more specific metric to evaluate your patent prosecution strategy.

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How To Get Ahead of Office Action Seasonality at the USPTO

How To Get Ahead of Office Action Seasonality at the USPTO

Much like the holly and tinsel hitting store shelves before the jack-o-lanterns are even gone, you can set your watch by an influx of office actions coinciding with the end of the USPTO’s fiscal year in September.

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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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Legal support staff suffering from workplace burnout

4 Ways to Avoid Burnout

We are entering a time of year where, as a prosecution manager, paralegal, assistant, or another member of the support staff, you're probably facing a packed calendar and your to-do list is anything but to-done.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of a Free Trial

Maybe you were taken in by an ad for workflow automation that could help your overworked support staff, maybe you hit the search bar looking for a way to reduce your IDS workload, or maybe you were tired of the other firms standing out to corporate clients with their use of data analytics.

Whatever the reason, you need to know that investing in legal tech is going to be worth the cost to your firm. So you negotiated a free trial, and you’ve got seven or 14, or 30 days to make sure this product will fulfill your needs.

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