(Here's a hint: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti is one.)
HRFM has earned its place as one of the Top 10 Firms with the Best Allowance Rate by Juristat.
With an 86.82 Alice Allowance Rate, HRFM has one of the 10 highest percentages of applications with one or more Alice rejections that were eventually allowed by the USPTO -- a true measurement of strategic effectiveness.
HRFM placed in the top 10 among 368 firms with at least 50 disposed applications that had experienced an Alice rejection.
From the Juristat blog...
Since June of 2014, Alice has become one of the most feared names in patent prosecution. Rejections citing Alice have multiplied exponentially since then, and they now account for more than 60% of §101 rejections and more than 8% of all rejections, as of our latest analysis.
But Alice rejections aren’t necessarily fatal to an application – and we found the firms to prove it. Which firms are the best at overcoming Alice rejections and getting to an NOA? Read on to find out.
Getting the lay of the (wonder)land
When we talk about success against Alice rejections, we’re really looking at two main measures:
• the Alice allowance rate, or the percentage of applications that had one or more Alice rejections but were eventually allowed;
• and the Alice overcome rate, or the success rate at overcoming Alice rejections on the first try. In these cases, either the application’s next office action doesn't reference Alice or the next office action is a notice of allowance.
The first is a measurement of strategic effectiveness – getting from rejection to allowance – while the second looks at tactical effectiveness – getting past one Alice office action and then facing the next.
To get a better idea of how successful firms are against Alice rejections, we looked at disposed applications with an Alice rejection from June of 2014 through December of 2017, and narrowed our review to firms that are experienced in handling those rejections.
Continue reading Which Firms Are the Best at Overcoming Alice?