Cost and Performance Comparison of Apple’s Patent Firms

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, interviews, extensions, claims allowed, etc. to analyze and rank all patent firms based on their performance and activity. Since we had calculated all these metrics for each of the patent applications, we decided, instead of the entire US patent set, apply a different lens and focus on a single company, with the goal to evaluate the performance of all law firms, working for that company for the same time period…(read more).