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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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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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How to Improve Patent Prosecution Efficiency and Simultaneously Increase Quality

During prosecution, small mistakes can turn into costly delays. A recent analysis of office action responses found that nearly 12% contain errors made by attorneys.

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IDS automation

5 Signs You Need IDS Automation

Preparing information disclosure statements is a headache for most IP teams, but it doesn’t have to be. Automating your IDS process speeds up your workflow, ensures information integrity, and protects your most valuable support staff from burnout.

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How IP Firms Adapt in Times of Uncertainty

In an increasingly turbulent business environment, IP firms need to take stock of what they can control, fortify, and improve. Now is the time to strengthen current processes with workflow automation and broaden your client base through competitive intelligence.

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6 Critical Questions Legal Teams Should Ask Workflow Automation Vendors

With so many legal tech vendors vying for your attention, it’s crucial that you ask the right questions to discover the appropriate tool for you, your team, and your specific processes.

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