Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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Update: After publishing this article on October 7, 2020, several law firms reached out to confirm their actual patent prosecution revenue which helped us discover a bug in our model. The error had resulted in significant underestimation of patent revenue.…
Assigning a dollar amount to the entire patent prosecution market in the US has been something that kept our research team at Patexia quite busy for a while. Back in March, we reported that more than 3500 law firms had worked with over 110,000 companies to…
Since all the other commentators are posting about this Notification, I thought I should say a few words as well. The USPTO will eliminate the filing fees for applicants who agree to publish their COVID-19-related provisional applications in a PTO-managed…
A few weeks ago, for the first time, we compared the cost of patent prosecution for Apple’s top firms ( Patexia Insight 77 ). One of our readers asked if we could find any correlation between the cost of development of a portfolio and the actual…
Last couple of weeks, we looked at the impact of COVID-19 and recession on IP, specifically patent prosecution. We concluded that there would be at least two to four percent decline in the number of applications for the next couple of years ( Patexia…
Coronavirus and its global impact have affected almost every sector of the economy. With all of the job losses and the continued lockdown in more than 80% of US cities, at this point, it is clear we are in one of the worst recessions in recent decades.…
In early March we released our 2nd Annual Patent Prosecution Intelligence Report , where we evaluated more than 3,500 patent firms over the last five years (Jan 1, 2015 through December 31, 2019). We looked at many metrics such as number of office actions,…
Burden of Persuasion to Demonstrate Unpatentability on Petitioner The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to allocate the burdens of persuasion on motions to amend in AIA trial proceedings…
Predictably, the USPTO has proposed increasing fees for about every piece of “paper” they receive/require . While most of the increases are in the 5-10% range for routine prep/pros matter, some of the increases are much larger. These often seem…
On Wednesday, Senator Coon—of 101 hearings fame—and five co-sponsors introduced the Stronger Patents Act in the Senate (“Support Technology & Research for Our Nation’s Growth and Economic Resilience”). About 22 of the…
After many years of continued decline, we observed for the first time, a significant reversal in the trend in the second quarter of 2019. In Q2, a total of 1,013 patent lawsuits were filed in U.S. District Courts across the country, which was 22 percent…
The number of U.S. issued patents from 2014 to 2018 grew by 3.6%. In 2014, the U.S. patent office granted a total of 326,038 patents. This number grew to 337,699 in 2018. However, not all companies enjoyed the same rate of growth. During this five-year…
