Post-Pandemic Applications, Actions, Grants, and Allowance Rate

A quick look at some stats now that we have 3 quarters of data for applications that were filed during the pandemic. Looks like applications…

COVID-Induced Abandonments?

After an extended COVID-induced hiatus for the BPD Blog, I decided to take a look at what’s been going on in the world of patents…

Design Patent Applications That Go “Straight Through”

Guest post by Dunstan H. Barnes Today’s guest post is the (rather overdue) third and final post in a three-part series of guest posts answering…

Who Ya Gonna Call? PAIR Ghost Busters

This week brings an update on the latest efforts to fix PAIR and pry public patent information from the death grip of the USPTO. (For…

A Piece of the Prep and Pros Pie

As someone who makes the bulk of his income drafting and prosecuting patents, the amount of prosecution work to go around is something I am…

Can I Change Patent Examiners?

“Can I change patent examiners?” This is one of the most common questions I get. The short answer is “probably not” You can petition to…

Proposal for USPTO DOCX filing

Update: Thanks to Simon Booth for pointing out the uspto docx support documents I just read Mike Borella’s informative post on patentdocs.org, which builds on…

Sign Here for Better PAIR/EFS and Accessibility of Public Patent Data

Following up on my post a few weeks ago, a coalition of companies have now drafted two letters to Director Iancu expressing concern with current…

Prosecution Davids and Goliaths

Following up on last week’s look at where registered patent practitioners are working, this week I looked at some high-level prosecution statistics broken out by…

The Long Tail of Prosecution Firms

What size firms/businesses do registered patent practitioners work in? What is the breakdown of patent applications by firm/business size? Let’s find out! The (Messy) USPTO…