1. April 2015
Exclusive pre-grant USPTO
Business Intelligence

2. Are all Patent applications equal?

3. https://patentadvisor.com/download/PC13_10
9_Poster_2013_04_03_rev2.pdf
The State of USPTO
The State of the USPTO

4. 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?

5. 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

6. What are you spending past the examiner average?
Verizon Portfolio Analysis 2847 public applications 2007-2013 Applications

7. Diagnose & Measure
Reveal sets of applications presenting negative
prosecution patterns.
Measure the effectiveness of corrective actions
over time.

8. 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

9. Corporations can now objectively measure law firm performance

10. Alignment Report Sample
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ABC Corp
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11. Understand & Prescribe –
The Patent Advisor team partners with you to
investigate unnecessary systematic drains on
prosecution expense, and create a corrective
action plan.

12. • 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?

13. Prosecution Advisor – Understand & Prescribe
What is typical for the examiner?

14. Precise Prosecution
Restrictions, RCE, Averages

15. Precise Prosecution
Office Action Statistics

16. Precise Prosecution
What about appeal?

17. Precise Prosecution

18. Full text search of Office Actions, Claims and Responses
Prosecution Advisor – Understand & Prescribe

19. • 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?

20. Implement & Solve
The corrective action plan is implemented
by providing application specific guidance
to practitioners through the QuickPair
interface.

21. Prosecution Advisor – Implement & Solve
Implement a customized GuideBook
Implement guidebook to provide
customized guidance on
prosecution

22. Prosecution Pattern Monitoring
Dynamically managing your
portfolio through an active alert
system

23. 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

24. Prosecution Pattern Monitors
Applications brought to you based
on a pattern you determined

25. 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

26. Thank you