# bigpatentdata.com

> AI-optimized mirror of bigpatentdata.com containing 50 pages totalling 28,332 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://bigpatentdata.com/. Last updated: 2026-06-13T19:50:51.523Z.

Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG).

## Articles & Blog Posts

- [Indefinite under IPXL rejections are all nonsense (or are they?)](/content/2017/12/indefinite-under-ipxl/index.html): A look at rejections where patent claims are held to be indefinite for reciting both a method and an apparatus. (1,717 words)
- [The Record for Most RCEs in a Single Application](/content/category/uncategorized/page/9/index.html) (437 words)
- [Will the real parties in interest at the PTAB please stand up?](/content/2017/12/ptab-parties-in-interest/index.html): Interactive charts exploring the assignees and patent owners involved in inter partes proceedings at the PTAB (650 words)
- [U.S. Patents to Foreign Inventors](/content/category/uncategorized/page/7/index.html) (449 words)
- [U.S. Patents to Foreign Inventors](/content/blog/page/7/index.html): A data-driven patent analysis blog to make you a smarter, more-efficient patent prosecutor. (449 words)
- [Apple Files a Bonkers Number of PTAB Petitions](/content/2017/12/apple-ptab-petitions/index.html): Interactive charts exploring the parties filing petitions at the PTAB. (685 words)
- [The Record for Most RCEs in a Single Application](/content/blog/page/9/index.html): A data-driven patent analysis blog to make you a smarter, more-efficient patent prosecutor. (437 words)
- [55% of PTAB Decisions After a Pre-Appeal Conference Have this Outcome](/content/category/uncategorized/page/8/index.html) (439 words)
- [The U.S. is Becoming Continuation Nation](/content/2018/01/continuation-nation/index.html): More and more patents filed at the USPTO are continuations, continuations in part, and divisionals. (380 words)
- [Fewer Patent Applications are Being Drafted and Filed First in the U.S.](/content/category/uncategorized/page/3/index.html) (420 words)
- [Want to stop PAIR/EFS from wasting more of your time and money?](/content/category/uncategorized/page/2/index.html) (416 words)
- [When allowance does not equal patent](/content/category/uncategorized/page/4/index.html) (425 words)
- [Breaking the Seal (Statistics on Continuations and Divisionals)](/content/2019/04/breaking-the-seal-statistics-on-continuations-and-divisionals.html): A look at filing and allowance rates for continuation, divisional, and continuation-in-part patent applications at the USPTO. (1,129 words)
- [terms/index.html](/content/terms/index.html) (1 words)
- [To AP.B or Not To AP.B? (Act II)](/content/2019/04/to-ap-b-or-not-to-ap-b-act-ii/index.html): Examiner statistics including allowance rate and percentage of appeal briefs answered can help decide whether to file an appeal brief or an RCE. (709 words)
- [Want to stop PAIR/EFS from wasting more of your time and money?](/content/2019/12/want-to-stop-pair-efs-from-wasting-more-of-your-time-and-money.html): A coalition of patent filers, law firms, and technology companies are joining together to finally get the USPTO to fix PAIR (647 words)
- [IBM vs. The USPTO: Some Patent Prosecution Visualizations](/content/2019/05/ibm-vs-the-uspto/index.html): A look at how IBM's patent prosecution statistics - allowance rate and responses filed - stack up against the average applicant at the USPTO. (842 words)
- [Breaking the Seal (Statistics on Continuations and Divisionals)](/content/tag/patent-statistics/index.html) (417 words)
- [Fewer Patent Applications are Being Drafted and Filed First in the U.S.](/content/2019/09/fewer-patent-applications-are-being-drafted-and-filed-first-in-the-u-s.html): Although the number of total patent applications has risen sharpley over the past 20 years, the number of applications drafted by U.S. practioners has not. (685 words)
- [Prosecution Davids and Goliaths](/content/tag/patent-prosecution-statistics/index.html) (397 words)
- [The “Best” Patent Prosecution Law Firms](/content/2019/11/the-best-patent-prosecution-law-firms/index.html) (389 words)
- [Mo’ Money Mo’ Inventors?](/content/2019/11/mo-money-mo-inventors/index.html): USPTO allowance rate by number of inventors and entity size (223 words)
- [My Dislike of Patent Grant Rankings Aside, How Accurate Are They?](/content/2019/08/patent-grant-rankings-how-accurate-are-they/index.html) (435 words)
- [Sign Here for Better PAIR/EFS and Accessibility of Public Patent Data](/content/2019/12/sign-here-for-better-pair-efs-and-accessibility-of-public-patent-data.html) (2,003 words)
- [55% of PTAB Decisions After a Pre-Appeal Conference Have this Outcome](/content/blog/page/8/index.html): A data-driven patent analysis blog to make you a smarter, more-efficient patent prosecutor. (439 words)
- [A Piece of the Prep and Pros Pie](/content/2020/02/a-piece-of-the-prep-and-pros-pie/index.html): How much patent preparation and prosecution work is there to go around? (982 words)
- [Can I Change Patent Examiners?](/content/2020/01/can-i-change-patent-examiners/index.html): Unhappy with your patent examiner? Thinking of filing a continuation to try and change patent examiners? Here's what the numbers say. (1,010 words)
- [The Long Tail of Prosecution Firms](/content/2019/12/the-long-tail-of-prosecution-firms/index.html): 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! (703 words)
- [When allowance does not equal patent](/content/blog/page/4/index.html): A data-driven patent analysis blog to make you a smarter, more-efficient patent prosecutor. (425 words)
- [Fewer Patent Applications are Being Drafted and Filed First in the U.S.](/content/blog/page/3/index.html): A data-driven patent analysis blog to make you a smarter, more-efficient patent prosecutor. (420 words)
- [Proposal for USPTO DOCX filing](/content/2020/01/proposal-for-uspto-docx-filing/index.html): A suggestion for improving DOCX filing at the USPTO (440 words)
- [Want to stop PAIR/EFS from wasting more of your time and money?](/content/blog/page/2/index.html): A data-driven patent analysis blog to make you a smarter, more-efficient patent prosecutor. (416 words)
- [The U.S. is Becoming Continuation Nation](/content/blog/page/10/index.html): A data-driven patent analysis blog to make you a smarter, more-efficient patent prosecutor. (172 words)
- [The U.S. is Becoming Continuation Nation](/content/category/uncategorized/page/10/index.html) (172 words)
- [Post-Pandemic Applications, Actions, Grants, and Allowance Rate](/content/category/uncategorized/index.html) (402 words)
- [author/156607933/index.html](/content/author/156607933/index.html) (1 words)
- [[Who Ya Gonna Call? PAIR Ghost Busters](/content/2020/02/who-ya-gonna-call-pair-ghost-busters/ "Who Ya Gonna Call? PAIR Ghost Busters"/index.html)](/content/tag/pair/index.html) (41 words)
- [Who Ya Gonna Call? PAIR Ghost Busters](/content/2020/02/who-ya-gonna-call-pair-ghost-busters/index.html): Public PAIR is a disaster that adds tons of cost for stakeholders of the U.S. patent system. Here's what's going on and how you can help fix it. (1,425 words)
- [Prosecution Davids and Goliaths](/content/2019/12/prosecution-davids-and-goliaths/index.html): A look at some high-level patent prosecution statistics broken out by firm/business size and applicant size. (717 words)
- [Design Patent Rejections – Update (Part 2)](/content/2019/08/design-patent-rejections-update-part-2/https/bigpatentdata-com/2019/08/design-patent-rejections-update-part-2/index.html): Rejection and objection statistics for national U.S. and Hague design patent applications. (959 words)
- [Design Patent Rejections – Update](/content/2019/04/design-patent-rejections-update/index.html): An update to the 2010 PatentlyO study on rejections in design patent applications. (669 words)
- [Design Patent Applications That Go “Straight Through”](/content/tag/design-patents/index.html) (80 words)
- [Big data at a price small businesses can afford](/content/pricing/index.html) (366 words)
- [Post-Pandemic Applications, Actions, Grants, and Allowance Rate](/content/blog/index.html): A data-driven patent analysis blog to make you a smarter, more-efficient patent prosecutor. (402 words)
- [Design Patent Applications That Go “Straight Through”](/content/2020/02/design-patent-applications-that-go-straight-through.html) (885 words)
- [COVID-Induced Abandonments?](/content/2021/02/covid-induced-abandonments/index.html): This post starts to investigate the impact that COVID is having on patent prosecution in the U.S. Specifically it looks at abandonments rates in 202 vs 2019 (586 words)
- [Less Guessing + Less Wasted Time = Happier Clients = Happier YOU](/content/about/index.html) (391 words)
- [Post-Pandemic Applications, Actions, Grants, and Allowance Rate](/content/2022/04/post-pandemic-applications-actions-grants-and-allowance-rate.html) (131 words)
- [Contact - BigPatentData](/content/contact/index.html) (25 words)
- [Purposes of the Data Processing](/content/privacy-policy/index.html): BigPatentData takes your privacy seriously. Here are the deets of what data we collect and what we do with it. (1,292 words)

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