Home > IP Solutions > Patent Prosecution > PatentAdvisor > Business Development and Analysis High angle shot of a team of businesspeople having a meeting outside Quickly and Objectively Evaluate Patent Prosecution Performance Better understand the performance of a law firm or company and how they stack up to the competition with PatentAdvisor™ Business Development & Analysis. Request a demo Law Firms Show clients why your firm should be their strategic IP partner Use reports that include reliable comparisons of law firms to prove why your firm is best suited for your prospect’s specific prosecution needs. The report takes examiner difficulty out of the equation and scores purely for law firm efficiency with the proprietary PatentAdvisor™ Efficiency Score. Leverage industry-leading data to: Compare and benchmark your firm’s prosecution performance against that of your competition. Get metrics based on an objective prosecution performance as opposed to examiner efficiency. Take examiner difficulty out of the equation and score purely for efficiency based on the proprietary PatentAdvisor™ Efficiency Score. “Being so much better informed and having these extra pieces of information—that’s huge. That can be the difference between getting a client or not getting the client.” Megan McLoughlin IP AttorneyFounders Legal Businesswoman looking at digital tablet on table in office Beyond allowance rate: Get a more meaningful measure of prosecution performance with the PatentAdvisor Efficiency Score By accounting for the variability of examiner complexity at the USPTO, the PatentAdvisor Efficiency Score gives you a better understanding of how successful the prosecution paths of your patents have been. The score uses a proprietary formula that: Measures examiners for complexity based on different application process actions Scores the efficiency of each patented and abandoned application based on the difficulty of the assigned examiner (for example, did an application have a less-than-average number of office actions with a typically tough examiner?) Then averages application efficiency scores for law firms and corporations The Efficiency Score provides a more robust metric than allowance rate that enables you to further benchmark in-house and outside counsel. Corporations Find the best outside counsel for your IP strategy Quickly discover law firms with above-average patent prosecution performance and better evaluate your company’s outside counsels using the Law Firm Report Card and Outside Counsel Evaluation as part of the PatentAdvisor™ Business Development and Analysis reports. Leverage industry-leading data to: Find the best outside counsel for your company Get insight to support strategy for future partnerships Support cost savings analyses Adjust outside counsel guidelines The Outside Counsel Evaluation report enables you to compare critical prosecution metrics, such as Time to Allowance and average number of office actions for multiple law firms. “Not only can we look at our performance outcomes for each outside counsel, but we can also use PatentAdvisor to benchmark these results against the performance outcomes our outside counsel provides to their other clients. This comparison has helped us adjust our outside counsel guidelines.” Sunjay MohanHead of Patents and Trademarks SAP Start benefiting from reliable prosecution performance evaluations Businesswoman talking to her colleague about business plan in video conference. Multi-ethnic business team using laptop for an online meeting in video call. Young woman working at home. Businesswoman discussing with female colleague with video call. Woman having video call at home. Shot of a business person using a laptop for web conference. Learn more about real-time, fully customizable PatentAdvisor Business Development & Analysis. Related Resources PatentAdvisor™ Benchmarking ReportsThe real-time, fully customizable PatentAdvisor Benchmarking Reports provide reliable comparisons of law firms and corporations.Read more Patent Analytics for Predictions, Performance and EvaluationsSophisticated patent analytics enable users to make accurate predictions about patent examiner behavior and conduct performance evaluations.Read more Objectively Measure Patent Prosecution Performance by Normalizing for Examiner DifficultyThe PatentAdvisor™ Efficiency Score is the ultimate tool to measure patent prosecution performance by scoring examiners purely for efficiency.Read more Trends in Patent Prosecution: Don’t Get Left BehindLearn the trends in patent prosecution to get valuable insight to drive strategy throughout the prosecution process.Read more