2023 Patent Quality Rankings: The Top 50 Patent Law Firms

Somerville, MA: Patent Bots, the creator of AI-enabled software-as-a-service applications for patent attorneys, is pleased to announce its fourth annual Patent Quality Rankings of top patent law firms.

Patent Bots used its advanced machine learning software to review every patent issued by the USPTO in the past year. It then ranked the 746 most active patent law firms based on the average number of numbering, antecedent basis, and word support errors detected in their patents. Rankings are based only on these errors and do not address many other important aspects of patent quality.

• 323,393 patents processed by the Patent Bots AI
• 33,425 (10.3%) patents achieved a perfect Patent Quality Score
• 9 average errors per patent
• 5 median errors per patent

Patent Bots detected at least one numbering, antecedent basis, or word support error in nearly 90 percent of patents issued last year.

“Errors in patents can increase the costs of obtaining a patent and lead to validity issues in the future,” Patent Bots founder and practicing patent attorney Jeff O’Neill said. “Modern AI-enabled automated proofreading solutions like Patent Bots make it easy to fix errors and get better outcomes for clients.”

2023 Patent Quality Rankings: Top 10 Large Firms

For the second consecutive year, Harrity & Harrity claimed the top ranking among patent firms with at least 500 patents issued in the last year.

2023 Patent Quality Rankings: Top 10 Firms Overall

Harrity & Harrity / Qualcomm placed first among firms with 50+ patents issued.

Note: Some companies file their own patents rather than filing through outside counsel. In these instances, the company is both the patent filer AND the patent owner and is included in our rankings as both a firm and a company. The company rankings will be released later this year.

View the entire 2023 Patent Bots Quality Rankings Top 50.

About Patent Bots: 

Patent Bots balances complex AI and big data technology with a modern user-friendly interface to help patent attorneys streamline tedious day-to-day workflows, submit stronger patent applications, deliver results faster for clients, and improve their firms’ bottom lines.

The Patent Bots platform consists of four primary software-as-a-service applications:

• Prep & Pros Pro. Get it right – faster – with AI-enabled drafting and proofreading.
• Art Unit Predictor. Steer patents away from the USPTO’s hardest art units.
• Examiner Statistics. Adapt your strategy with real intel on patent examiners.
• PatentPlex. Generate claim charts and family trees in seconds.