2024 Patent Quality Rankings: The Top 50 Patent Law Firms

Somerville, MA: Patent Bots, creator of AI-enabled software-as-a-service applications for patent attorneys, is pleased to announce its fifth 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 730 patent law firms with 50+ patents issued 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.

• 323,820 patents processed by the Patent Bots AI
• 36,824 (11.4%) patents with a perfect Patent Quality Score – up from 10.3% in 2023
• 75 average errors per patent – down from 7.9 in 2023
• 4 median errors per patent – down from 5 in 2023

The decline in errors per patent is not a one-year phenomenon. The average has declined nearly 25% in just five years – from 8.9 errors per patent in 2020 to an all-time low of 6.75 this year. The decrease coincides with the rise of automated patent proofreading tools like Patent Bots Prep & Pros Pro.

“I started Patent Bots six years ago because I saw the enormous value of automated proofreading in my own patent practice,” Patent Bots founder and practicing patent attorney Jeff O’Neill said. “The data is clear: Practitioners who use automated proofreading achieve a significant drop in their error rates.”

Despite the decline, Patent Bots detected at least one numbering, antecedent basis, or word support error in nearly 89% 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,” O’Neill said. “Modern AI-enabled automated proofreading solutions like Patent Bots make it easy to fix errors and get better outcomes for clients.”

2024 Patent Quality Rankings: Top 10 Large Firms.

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

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.

2024 Patent Quality Rankings: Top 10 Firms Overall. 

FIG. 1 Patents jumped all the way from No. 8 in our 2023 rankings to place first among firms with 50+ patents issued.

View the entire 2024 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.

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