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Patent Prosecution Analytics
Leverage the power of data to guide your patent prosecution with Prosecution Pack
What is Prosecution Pack?
Designed for IP professionals, the Prosecution Pack is a comprehensive companion for navigating the intricacies of patent prosecution analytics. It excels in predicting and analyzing the optimal prosecution path, tracking and selecting prior art, and seamlessly filing Invention Disclosure Statement (IDS) forms.
Why Use Prosecution Pack for Intellectual Property Prosecution Analytics?
This patent prosecution analytics module will assist you to:
View Grant Statistics
Transform intuitions into facts with Grant Statistics, a patent prosecution analytics tool that provides insights into prediction paths, examiner analytics, art unit predictions, rejections, and appeals for your US and JP patent applications.
Predict Art Unit with Semantic Analysis
Anticipate the Art Unit assignment for your patent application by providing relevant text to our semantic analysis tool. Available in English, Chinese, Japanese, and German, this feature offers a forward-looking perspective.
Access Examiner Statistics
The examiner analytics module equips you with essential facts about examiner behavior, including their case outcomes, rejection rates, and appetence for interviews. Use these patent prosecution analytics to strengthen your strategy.
Refine Rejection Analysis and Optimize Appeals Strategy
- Refine rejection analysis by filtering with criteria such as cited patents, examiner, reasons for rejection, law firms, and applicant. Get statistics on the next intellectual property prosecution stage and final outcome of your application and focus on the most relevant rejections by downloading corresponding documents.
- Improve your appeal strategy by accessing statistics on final USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions through examiner, law firms, and applicant criteria.
Generate Invention Disclosure Statements
Quickly generate an EFS-compliant SB08 form by exporting prior art search results from Orbit Intelligence.
Analyze IDS Cross-Citations Efficiently
Automate the process of gathering citations from more than 70 offices and create a cross-citation matrix for an additional IDS before the notice of allowance. Ensure that all relevant references are cited for your application or competitor patents.
Streamline Intellectual Property Prosecution with Our End-to-End Solutions
Traditionally, international processes for managing intellectual property prosecution have been costly and time-consuming because of their distinct and highly administrative natures. Fortunately, advancements in technology have enabled IP specialists such as Questel to develop dedicated tools, robust processes, and centralized solutions that leverage the administrative processes of international property prosecution to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and free up internal resources.
Our Patent Analytics Tool, Prosecution Pack, is one example of our end-to-end solutions for IP owners and law firms. We also support IP professionals throughout the intellectual property prosecution lifecycle with dedicated international patent filing, translation, data benchmarking, and cost management services.
Saving Money through Process Automation and Cost Control
Did you know you could save money by outsourcing administrative intellectual property prosecution processes, such as international patent filing, to Questel?
Market-leading technology company Heraeus saved €500,000 in annual foreign patent prosecution costs, including translations, by outsourcing its international patent filing program to Questel.
What is patent prosecution?
The term 'patent prosecution' refers to the process of obtaining a patent right, from the initial patent application to the final patent grant.
To prosecute a patent to grant, IP owners must follow the predefined steps and adhere to the specific practices and deadlines mandated by national patent offices. Typically, these steps and deadlines are split into pre-grant patent prosecution and post-grant prosecution stages. The former refers to the process of managing and responding to pre-grant patent office correspondence (such as Office Actions), while the latter relates to the process of managing post-grant activities (such as third-party oppositions).
What is patent prosecution not?
When asking 'What is patent prosecution?', non-IP specialists may expect the answer to be related to the enforcement of granted patent rights; for example, via litigation. However, this is incorrect. Instead, patent prosecution comprises a specific set of administrative processes, which are established by the patent-examining rules and procedures of each national or regional patent office, such as the 'Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office (EPO)'.
What is patent prosecution? An example
Take, for example, the process of prosecuting a Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) National Phase Filing.
- Once the PCT International application is filed:
-The application subject matter becomes set in stone;
-Key dates for protection are fixed; and
-Obtaining national phase filings becomes an entirely administrative process.
- To obtain National Phase Entry, applicants must follow distinct administrative steps, including:
-Filling out forms, paying fees, and submitting signed documents;
-Translation management;
-Amendments can be made and filed, but these are constrained by the original text.
- Post-filing steps include:
-Management of amendments and substantive prosecution responses;
-Other post-filing administrative tasks, such as annuities, form generation, etc.
Is patent prosecution legal or administrative?
While companies can manage this entire patent prosecution in-house with the support of various overseas law firms (or outsource the work completely to an external law firm), it is important to note that much of the patent prosecution process is highly administrative.
As such, many of the patent prosecution tasks can be managed efficiently and cost-effectively by partnering with an IP administration specialist, such as Questel.
- Browse our international patent filing and prosecution support services.
- Explore our AI-elevated patent preparation and prosecution workflow technologies.
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