# 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…