April 2015

Exclusive pre-grant USPTO Business Intelligence

Are all Patent applications equal?

https://patentadvisor.com/download/PC13_109_Poster_2013_04_03_rev2.pdf

The State of USPTO

The State of the USPTO

The Patent Acquisition Process

• Are you efficient and effective in the Patent application process?

• How likely is it that a Patent will issue?

• When will it issue?

• Is our cap set at the best number?

• Which cases stay in-house vs outside counsel?

• Are there any shortcuts to allowance?

• Is one law firm better than another? Is inside counsel better?

• What is my examiner’s PAR?

• What is the examiners Appeal record, RCE outcomes? Typical number of office actions?

PatentAdvisorTM

Business Intelligence for every application and patent that will improve how you manage your pending portfolio

Diagnose & Measure with Portfolio Advisor

Understand & Prescribe with Prosecution Advisor

Implement & Solve with Data Driven Prosecution

What are you spending past the examiner average?

Verizon Portfolio Analysis 2847 public applications 2007-2013 Applications

Diagnose & MeasureReveal sets of applications presenting negative prosecution patterns.

Measure the effectiveness of corrective actions over time.

Portfolio Management

Portfolio Advisor – Diagnosis and Measure

Apply filters to reveal applications presenting negative prosecution patterns.

Each box is a single application

Identify and monitor sets of your applications based on USPTO metrics

Corporations can now objectively measure law firm performance

Alignment Report Sample

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Understand & Prescribe –The Patent Advisor team partners with you to investigate unnecessary systematic drains on prosecution expense, and create a corrective action plan.

• These are the pending applications that are the furthest past average

• You have invested approximately $312,000 on Responses with these 10 applications that are over the examiner average, this represents 104 office actions

Prosecution Advisor - Understand & Prescribe

Which pending applications are going past average?

Prosecution Advisor – Understand & Prescribe

What is typical for the examiner?

Precise Prosecution

Restrictions, RCE, Averages

Precise Prosecution

Office Action Statistics

Precise Prosecution

What about appeal?

Precise Prosecution

Full text search of Office Actions, Claims and Responses

Prosecution Advisor – Understand & Prescribe

• This is your table of examiners sorted by allowance rate

• These examiners are where you need to review the guidebook for a new path to allowance

Prosecution Advisor - Understand & Prescribe

Which pending applications are going past average?

Implement & SolveThe corrective action plan is implemented by providing application specific guidance to practitioners through the QuickPairinterface.

Prosecution Advisor – Implement & Solve

Implement a customized GuideBook

Implement guidebook to provide customized guidance on

prosecution

Prosecution Pattern Monitoring

Dynamically managing your portfolio through an active alert system

Portfolio Management

Portfolio Advisor – Diagnosis and Measure

Apply filters to reveal applications presenting negative prosecution patterns.

Each box is a single application

Identify and monitor sets of your applications based on USPTO metrics

Prosecution Pattern Monitors

Applications brought to you based on a pattern you determined

Efficiency Effectiveness Measurement

Benefits to our clients

Revolutionary Data

“I can formulate a prosecution strategy in 45 minutes vs a half a day.”

Current client

“The QuickPair system and guide book reveal the statistically shortest path to allowance.”

Current client

“I can see all applications the firm is handling and where we are the most effective.”

Current client

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