Introducing the 2025 Patent Bots Patent Speed Rankings

You know Patent Bots for our annual Patent Quality Rankings. We’re excited to share that we have added a new analysis around issued patents, the Patent Bots Patent Speed Rankings. 

To determine the Patent Speed Rankings, Patent Bots processed every patent issued by the USPTO over the course of a year to assess the number of days from the first office action to issuance. We then ranked the 710 patent law firms with 50+ issued patents based on how long they take to get a patent issued. The rankings are based on the Patent Bots Speed Score, which takes into account different prosecution pendencies across different USPTO tech centers.

There are times when speed is of the utmost importance to the success of the client company, such as when you have an active infringer, need to defend yourself in litigation, or need to increase the value of the company for acquisition or investment. In other situations, there may be a balance between speed and other factors, such as obtaining broader claims. In either case, having the data and insight provided by our metrics can be valuable for understanding how a firm works with their clients.

In addition to the overall Speed Score, we assessed the data and ranked firms on other metrics that contribute to the time to issuance, including the number of extensions per patent, the number of office actions per patent, and the number of requests for continued examination per patent. This information is available within the Patent Bots PatentVerse tool; details about the top ten in each category is publicly available, while further rankings require a Patent Bots subscription. 

And now, on to the rankings for each metric!

Speed Score

The speed score represents the number of days from the first office action to issuance. Congratulations to Porus IP for ranking first on this measure.

Rank	Law Firm	Patents Issued	Speed Score
1	Porus IP LLC	90	100.0
2	Neustel Law Offices	66	98.3
3	Birchwood IP	64	95.5
4	Dentons US LLP	301	92.8
5	True Shepherd LLC	75	91.8
6	Nath, Goldberg & Meyer	898	90.6
7	CBM PATENT CONSULTING, LLC	62	89.8
8	MATTHIAS SCHOLL P.C.	62	89.2
9	Flagship Patents	68	87.9
10	Hemisphere Law, PLLC	140	87.2

Extensions Per Patent

Congratulations to Intellectual Valley Law, P.C. for the fewest number of extensions per patent.

Rank	Law Firm	Patents Issued	Extensions Per Patent
1	Intellectual Valley Law, P.C.	88	0.00
2	Law Offices of Katsuhira Arai	52	0.00
3	AP3 Law Firm PLLC	55	0.00
4	Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry	185	0.00
5	PV IP LLC	481	0.00
6	Ling and Yang Intellectual Property	197	0.01
7	IPro, PLLC	643	0.01
8	BAYES PLLC	385	0.01
9	Syncoda PLLC	392	0.01
10	Porus IP LLC	90	0.01

Office Actions Per Patent

Nokia Technologies Oy leads the way with the fewest office actions per patent.

Rank	Law Firm	Patents Issued	OAs Per Patent
1	Nokia Technologies Oy	62	0.5
2	Porus IP LLC	90	0.6
3	Birchwood IP	64	0.7
4	Flagship Patents	68	0.7
5	Hemisphere Law, PLLC	140	0.7
6	Neustel Law Offices	66	0.7
7	True Shepherd LLC	75	0.7
8	W&G Law Group	344	0.7
9	GrowIP Law Group LLC	51	0.8
10	MLO, a professional corp.	86	0.8

Requests for Continued Examination Per Patent

Congratulations to Hemisphere Law, PLLC for the fewest RCEs per patent.

Rank	Law Firm	Patents Issued	RCEs Per Patent
1	Hemisphere Law, PLLC	140	0.01
2	Porus IP LLC	90	0.01
3	MLO, a professional corp.	86	0.01
4	True Shepherd LLC	75	0.01
5	Sanchelima & Associates, P.A	67	0.01
6	W&G Law Group	344	0.02
7	Vivacqua Crane, PLLC	273	0.03
8	Joywin IP Law PLLC	70	0.03
9	Birchwood IP	64	0.03
10	Smartpat PLC	89	0.03

Patent Bots Rankings Methodology

We rank law firms over several criteria:

• Number of issued patents.
• Average extensions per patent.
• Average office actions per patent.
• Average RCEs per patent.
• Speed Score — The number of days from the first office action to issuance (normalized by tech center).
• Quality Score — The number of proofreading errors in the issued patent (normalized by tech center).

Of course we recognize that speed is subjective and that many factors contribute to the timeline from application to issuance. 

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 a firm. 

Webinar: PatentLink

Which would you prefer? Spending time manually building a patent spreadsheet? Or building a patent list with just a few clicks?

Our newest solution, PatentLink, makes it easy to build interactive lists of patents for more efficient management, analysis, and oversight.

Check out our latest webinar for an overview of the solution and the different types of lists available. You’ll also learn how PatentLink lists can be used to manage your daily workload, monitor the activity of competitors, gain insight into the quality of a portfolio, and more.

Want to discuss how you can use PatentLink in your own practice? Contact us today at sales@patentbots.com.

Patent Bots in Action: OA Response Shell Generation

Prep & Pros Pro from Patent Bots helps you streamline day-to-day tasks and obtain stronger patents faster.

The product includes tools for patent proofreading that quickly diagnose and fix errors in your patent applications and OA responses. It also includes tools for automated patent drafting that save you hours of time by automating tedious tasks when drafting applications and OA responses.

Prep & Pros Pro can also save time and minimize busy work for legal admins and support staff, with tools for OA response shell generation, client reporting letter generation, IDS form filling, and more.

Today we’re taking a closer look at OA response shell generation. Included with a firm-wide subscription to Prep & Pros Pro, you can generate a shell with just three easy steps.

See it in action in the video below. Then try it for yourself with a free two-week trial of Patent Bots.

Introducing PatentLink: Interactive Patent Lists

Patents Bots is excited to introduce our newest solution, PatentLink. With PatentLink, you can easily build interactive lists of patents for more efficient management, analysis, and oversight.

Using PatentLink, you will no longer need to copy and paste patent information into spreadsheets. You can build your list with just a few clicks by simply inputting patent numbers, assignee names, or other information. 

Plus, you’ll no longer need to manually update the list. With PatentLink, you can refresh the data as needed or even receive notifications directly to your inbox for the events that are of interest.

To make it even easier, PatentLink includes one-click access to other Patent Bots tools like PatentPlex so you can get additional information about the patent.

How will you use PatentLink?

• Use PatentLink to manage your daily workload
• Create a list of patents for due diligence or litigation 
• Monitor the activity of competitors and their patent portfolio
• Get easy access to information about the quality of a portfolio 

PatentLink is available now.  Start your free two-week trial today or contact us to discuss making it part of your Patent Bots subscription.

To Gen AI or Not to Gen AI? Automation in Patent Drafting Tools

AI is coming for our jobs. AI is going to make our jobs easier. You’ve probably heard both, given that AI has dominated the technology conversation for several years now. This holds true across industries and across professions, and patent practitioners are no exception.  

Since our founding in 2018, Patent Bots has been a pioneer of AI in patent proofreading and patent drafting software. In fact, AI is used across the suite of Patent Bots tools, albeit not necessarily in the ways you’d expect. These days, when someone says AI, it’s likely they are referencing generative (gen) AI. However, AI has long been used for its non-generative capabilities, with generative AI only coming onto the scene within the last decade.

So what exactly is the difference between non-generative and generative AI and what role does each play in automated patent drafting?

Non-Generative AI in Patent Drafting Tools

Non-generative AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that analyze, classify, or make predictions about existing data without creating new content. Put another way, this type of AI focuses on understanding and processing information that already exists.

As an example, Patent Bots uses non-generative AI to parse the text of patent claims. This occurs with a custom-trained machine learning model for grammatical decomposition. The drafting tools in Patent Bots also allow you to generate text, particularly for some of the more administrative sections of your patent application, such as the claim summary or abstract, using non-generative AI. In this case, the models do not generate new, original content but rather put together the appropriate language based on the content already in your application. 

Of course the uses of non-generative AI extend beyond automated patent drafting. Patent Bots uses this type of AI for its analysis and other tools as well. Take the Art Unit Predictor. Classification is a common use for non-generative AI, and with this solution, Patent Bots trained machine learning models with data to classify Art Groups and highlight the ones to which the patent application is most likely to be assigned. 

Generative AI in Patent Drafting Tools

Generative AI refers to artificial intelligence systems that create new, original content based on patterns learned from training data. Rather than just analyzing or classifying existing information, this type of AI produces outputs that didn't previously exist.

Patent Bots offers a generative AI option in our patent drafting software for drafting the title, background and abstract. In this case, the output generated is wholly new content. Understanding that law firms have varying degrees of comfort with gen AI, this feature can be enabled or disabled at the firm level within the Patent Bots platform.

As with non-generative AI, Patent Bots also employs generative AI for tasks outside of automated patent drafting. This includes PatentPlex, which provides easy access to patent family trees, patent history, and more. For ease of analysis, the PatentPlex tool includes a Generative AI Assistant that allows you to explore the patent and its prosecution history. PatentBots securely submits the question, the text of the patent, and the prosecution history to a generative AI agent. Patent Bots then displays the answer, leveraging generative AI to help users more quickly hone in on the information needed. 

Choosing the Right Tool AI Tool For Automated Patent Drafting

With so many AI solutions, both generative and non-generative, available in the market, how do you know what type of AI tool is best for each type of patent drafting task?

Patent Bots founder and patent attorney Jeff O’Neill co-authored a piece in Landslide Magazine from the American Bar Association to dive into just this topic. His takeaways:

Different Tools for Different Tasks: Patent drafting can be supported by various text generation and AI tools, each suited to different parts of the application depending on the need for precision and complexity.

Strengths and Limitations: Generative AI tools excel at generating natural-sounding, general-purpose text, making them useful for tasks like writing abstracts or background sections. However, their tendency to produce "average" text makes them unreliable for sections requiring exact language, such as claims or detailed invention descriptions.

Rules-Based Tools Offer Precision: For highly structured and repetitive tasks like generating claim summaries, both non-generative AI and generative AI tools can be effective, if they are trained to follow strict legal formatting and ensure consistency.

Human Expertise is Irreplaceable: Drafting patent claims and detailed descriptions still requires the critical thinking, legal reasoning, and domain expertise that only human practitioners can provide.

Want to experience AI patent drafting tools - both generative and non-generative - for yourself? Start your free two-week Patent Bots trial today.

Webinar: Drafting to Due Diligence

Due diligence work requires reviewing and comparing a wide variety of information (claims, office actions, etc.), and doing this manually is slow and tedious. 

In this webinar, GTC Law Group shares how they use tools like PatentPlex to get quick access to the information they need, allowing them to spend more time on substantive work and less time shuffling papers. 

As a bonus, GTC Law Group is also #1 in the 2025 Patent Bots quality rankings as measured by proofreading errors in issued patents. 

During the presentation, GTC explains the importance of patent quality and the processes that they have implemented to ensure the entire law firm is doing quality work. 

Patent Bots Drafting Automation in Action: Claims Renumbering

You may know Prep & Pros Pro from Patent Bots for automated proofreading, but did you know that it includes drafting automation as well?

These tools increase your efficiency by automating tedious tasks when drafting patent applications and OA responses. Drafting automation includes the following features designed to save you valuable time and reduce errors. 

• Claim renumbering
• Insertion or removal of ref labels from claims
• Figure renumbering
• Typing shortcuts for ref labels
• Ref label renumbering
• Generation of claim summaries
• Generation of the brief description of the figures

Today, we’re taking a closer look at claim renumbering and sharing just how easy it is to use.  With one click of a button, the tool makes sure that all of your claims are in numerical order and automatically updates your claim dependencies.

See claim renumbering in action in the video below.  Then try it, along with the other great drafting features, with a free two-week trial of Patent Bots.