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…

Mo’ Money Mo’ Inventors?

This week I once again draw inspiration from PatentlyO. In this post Dennis looked at the number of inventors per application. He subsequently tweeted a…

Terminal Disclaimer Stats

It was starting to feel like every continuation I file gets a nonstatutory obviousness type double patenting rejection as a matter of course. So I…

Business Methods. Back in Business?

The USPTO has three art unit groups for business methods: 3620 Business Methods – Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of…

Patent Pendency on the Rise Again

I wasn’t planning a post on pendency, but just saw some data that surprised me and thought this would be a good way to get…

Floodgates opened? Follow-up on the 2019 Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance

It has been almost six months since the release of the 2019 Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance, so I decided to check in and try to…

IBM vs. The USPTO: Some Patent Prosecution Visualizations

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,…

How Fast are Continuations?

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…

Breaking the Seal (Statistics on Continuations and Divisionals)

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…

Design Patent Rejections – Update

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…