A patent application getting allowed does not always mean a patent will result. The most common alternatives, discussed in Lies, Damned Lies, and Examiner Statistics are: (1)…
“How often do patent applications get rejected?” This is probably one of the most common questions I get asked from clients unfamiliar with the patent…
I recently contributed some data to the “Inside the IBM Patent Factory” on IAM-Media. Check it out here (paywall). As part of that research,…
As I wrote last week in Breaking the Seal, when presented with allowable claims that aren’t perfect, I often take the claims (that is, allow…
Today I am looking at statistics on continuing applications. This post was motivated by two questions that I wanted to explore: Question 1: Should I take…
Foreword: To date, the BigPatentData Blog has given little no attention to design patents. This is because I barely know the difference between a design patent and…
In the first post of this series, we saw that, overall, allowance rate goes down with each appeal. That seems to intuitively make sense because,…
In my previous post, I looked at two metrics – allowance rate and actions per disposal – that I find useful in assessing an examiner…
How often do you get 5 minutes into an office action and you start thinking “here we go again, another idiot patent examiner that has…
For us patent prosecutors, whether to file an appeal brief or an RCE is a decision we have to make more often than soup or…