More Ways to Work Smarter: What's New in Patent Bots This Summer

The unofficial start of summer is here, and so is a fresh wave of Patent Bots updates. Whether you're managing a packed docket or just looking to shave time off routine tasks, this release has something for you — from smarter Gen AI drafting tools to faster form generation and a cleaner Office Action workflow. 

Here's a look at what's new!

Custom Gen AI Prompts for Drafting

You now have more control over how you draft with Gen AI. In addition to firm-wide prompts set by your subscription admin, you can create your own personal prompts, putting your most-used workflows just a click away.

For example, you could create a prompt like this:

Given the independent claims, draft a full set of dependent claims that: (1) narrow each independent claim across multiple dimensions of specificity, (2) capture preferred embodiments from the invention disclosure, (3) create a meaningful fallback hierarchy for prosecution, and (4) make all dependent claims unique.

Build in whatever helps you draft faster and reuse it every time. Setup is simpler too – no more uploading .txt files. Just type, save, and go.

Gen AI Review for Consistency

Building on our Gen AI Review for Proofreading feature, we've expanded the capability to include consistency checking. Accessed via the Patent Bots Word Add-In, Gen AI Review now helps you catch not only typos and grammatical errors, but also inconsistent or conflicting terminology throughout your draft — the kind of subtle issues that are often easy to miss. 

Additional USPTO PDF Forms 

Filling out USPTO forms just got a lot faster. You can now generate 27 common forms in just a few clicks — choose your form, select the practitioner, and hit generate.

Currently supported forms include:

• AIA/01 Declaration using ADS 
• AIA/02 Sub. Stmt. in Lieu of Decl. 
• AIA/24 Express Abandonment 
• AIA/24A Express Aband. Avoid Pub. 
• AIA/24B Express Aband. Refund 
• AIA/25 Term. Disc. Prov. DP App. 
• AIA/26 Term. Disc. DP Patent 
• AIA/31 Notice of Appeal 
• AIA/40 Request to Correct Invent. 
• AIA/41 Request to Update Applicant 
• AIA/47 Maint. Fee Address 
• AIA/82 Transmittal for POA 
• AIA/96 Stmt. Under 37 CFR 3.73(c) 
• AIA/122 Change Corr. Addr. App. 
• AIA/123 Change Corr. Addr. Pat. 
• PTOL/85B Issue Fee Trans. 
• SB/09 IDS under QPIDS Program 
• SB/17 Fee Transmittal 
• SB/21 Transmittal Form 
• SB/30 RCE Transmittal 
• SB/30PC RCE Transmittal Pat. Center 
• SB/35 Nonpub. Request 
• SB/36 Rescission of Nonpub. 
• SB/44 Cert. of Corr. 
• SB/47 Maint. Fee Address 
• SB/133 Patent Term Adj. Stmnt.
• SB/439 Auth. for Internet Comms. 

We’re continuing to add more forms, so if you don’t see one you need, stay tuned.

Display Office Action in Word While Drafting a Response

When drafting an Office Action response in the Patent Bots Word Add-In, the full text of the Office Action is now displayed right alongside your work — so you can read, reference, and respond without ever leaving your document.

Bulk IFW downloads in PatentPlex

Download multiple IFW documents at once, either as a ZIP of individual PDFs or as a single combined PDF. No more one-at-a-time downloads.

Translated PDFs of Foreign Citations 

Handling foreign citations in your IDS forms just got easier. You can now download translated PDFs of foreign citations directly as part of IDS form generation – delivered without any extra steps or separate lookups.

Ready to put these features to work? Start your free 14-day trial of Patent Bots and see what's possible. 

Patent Bots in Action: Art Unit Predictor in Proofreading

Patent Bots Art Unit Predictor lets you see the most likely groups and art units to be assigned to your patent. 

It’s a great practice to run your application during drafting and see the Art Unit prediction, but it’s also a step that can be easy to overlook. That’s why Patent Bots made one of our recent product updates. If you are subscribed to our Art Unit Predictor, we now show you a summary right in the proofreading tools in the Microsoft Word Add-In. 

Having this insight at your fingertips makes it easier to review likely art unit assignments and amend your claims during drafting to steer your application toward a more preferred group and art unit.

Check it out in the video below. Then start your free two-week trial of Patent Bots and put art unit prediction to work with your next application.

Patent Bots in Action: USPTO Form Filling

If your team spends significant time on patent document preparation, you already know how tedious the forms can be. 

OA Admin, part of Patent Bots Prep & Pros Pro, was built to change that — automating OA response shells, client reporting letters, IDS forms, assignment and declaration forms, and more. All so you and your support staff can work faster and more efficiently.

We’ve recently added a new feature to this tool, the ability to generate USPTO PDF forms. You can now use OA Admin to fill out select USPTO PDF forms automatically. The workflow couldn't be simpler: choose your form, select the practitioner, and click generate. That's it. 

Watch the video below to see just how easy it is, and then check it out for yourself with a free, 14-day trial of Patent Bots.

This feature is currently available for the following forms:

• AIA/01 Declaration using ADS
• AIA/02 Sub. Statement in Lieu of Decl.
• AIA/40 Request to Correct Inventorship
• AIA/41 Request to Update Applicant
• AIA/47 Maint. Fee Address 
• AIA/82 Transmittal for POA
• AIA/122 Change Corr. Addr. App.
• AIA/123 Change Corr. Addr. Pat.
• PTOL/85B Issue Fee Trans.
• SB/09 IDS under QPIDS Program
• SB/30 RCE Transmittal
• SB/30PC RCE Transmittal Pat. Center
• SB/36 Rescission of Nonpub.
• SB/439 Auth. for Internet Comm

Don’t see what you need?  Not to worry; we’re adding more all the time. You can even drop us a line at support@patentbots.com if there is one you’d like to see included.

2026 Patent Quality Rankings: The Top 50 Patent Law Firms

Patent Bots is excited to announce our seventh annual Patent Quality Rankings of top patent law firms!

Proofreading is one of the many tools in the Patent Bots product suite, alongside AI-enabled drafting, art unit prediction, patent examiner statistics, patent family trees and histories, and more. As we've done every year since 2020, we used this advanced machine learning software for proofreading to review every patent issued – more than 327,000 this year! – by the USPTO in the past year. 

We then ranked the 709 patent law firms with 50+ patents issued based on the average number of numbering, antecedent basis, and word support errors detected in their patents. Our rankings are based only on these error types and do not address many other important aspects of patent quality. 

The State of Patent Accuracy in 2026

Before we unveil the top 50 patent law firms, let's take a look at the state of patent accuracy.

• 327,684 patents processed by the Patent Bots AI
• 46,013 (14%) patents with a perfect Patent Quality Score – up from 12% in 2025
• 6.38 average errors per patent – down from 6.55 in 2025
• 4 median errors per patent

The decline in average errors per patent is not a one-year phenomenon. The average has declined from 8.9 errors per patent when we began the rankings in 2020 to an all-time low of 6.38 this year.

The decrease in errors coincides with the rise of automated patent proofreading tools like Prep & Pros Pro by Patent Bots. As more patent attorneys have implemented these tools into their workflows, the prevalence of errors has decreased steadily from year to year. 

That said, more than 280,000 (86%) of all patents issued in the last year contained at least one numbering, antecedent basis, or word support error. If your firm doesn't use automated proofreading, try Patent Bots free for 14 days.

Now, on to the rankings!

2026 Patent Quality Rankings: Top 50 Patent Law Firms 

Congratulations to Getz Balich for jumping from the third spot in our 2025 rankings to claim first place this year among firms with 50+ patents issued. 

The other firms that round out the top 50 for the 2026 rankings are listed below.

FIRM	RANK	NUMBER OF PATENTS	QUALITY SCORE
Getz Balich LLC	1	318	98.8
Duft & Bornsen, PC	2	85	98.6
Harrity & Harrity, LLP	3	1520	98.3
Caldwell Intellectual Property Law	4	316	97.5
Burris Law, PLLC	5	237	96.9
Holland & Hart LLP	6	1539	96.7
MORI & WARD, LLP	7	86	96.3
GTC Law Group PC & Affiliates	8	87	96
FIG. 1 Patents	9	392	95.6
Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane, P.C.	10	721	95.4
IP Spring	11	99	94.1
Dierker & Kavanaugh, P.C.	12	90	93.4
Strategic Patents, P.C.	13	51	93.1
MLO, a professional corp.	14	71	93
Keller Preece PLLC	15	307	92.8
Innovation Counsel LLP	16	407	92.6
Robinson Intellectual Property Law Office, P.C.	17	148	92.3
Pierce Atwood LLP	18	187	91.9
Farjami & Farjami LLP	19	73	90.4
Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.	20	775	90.2
Akona IP PC	21	178	90.2
Parker Highlander PLLC	22	63	90.2
Alleman Hall LLP	23	105	89.7
Lowenstein Sandler LLP	24	833	88.2
ARC IP Law, PC	25	53	88.2
Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP	26	597	88.1
F. CHAU & ASSOCIATES, LLC	27	556	86.9
Syncoda LLC	28	310	86.8
Rowand LLP	29	86	86.6
Venjuris, P.C.	30	218	86.5
CKC & Partners Co., LLC	31	602	86.4
DeLizio, Peacock, Lewin & Guerra LLP	32	113	86
Posz Law Group, PLC	33	322	86
Knowles Intellectual Property Strategies, LLC	34	55	86
BURR PATENT LAW, PLLC	35	182	85.8
Flagship Patents	36	82	85.8
ALG Intellectual Property, LLC	37	105	85.7
Lee & Hayes, P.C.	38	1274	85.6
Alliance IP, LLC	39	149	85.6
Kubota & Basol LLP	40	207	85.5
Treyz Law Group, P.C.	41	291	85.5
Carrier, Shende & Associates P.C.	42	124	85.2
Keating & Bennett, LLP	43	799	84.5
YHE Law LLP	44	53	84.5
Lindauer Law, PLLC	45	53	83.4
Alleman Hall & Tuttle LLP	46	531	83.3
Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP	47	360	83.3
Fernando & Partners, LLP	48	95	83.3
Miller Johnson	49	115	82.8
Parker Justiss, P.C.	50	101	82.6

(Note: If you don't see your firm on the list above, review our full list inside PatentVerse. You'll need to log in to see your firm's ranking as we don't want to publicly identify firms with lower scores.)

2026 Patent Quality Rankings: Top 10 Large Firms

In recognition of their prolific patent practices, we've segmented most active patent firms in the U.S. (those with at least 500 patents issued in the last year) into a Large Firms list.

For the fifth consecutive year, Harrity & Harrity held the top spot in the Large Firm rankings. Congratulations to Harrity & Harrity and the rest of these large firms for doing amazing work over the last year! 

FIRM	RANK	NUMBER OF PATENTS	QUALITY SCORE
Harrity & Harrity, LLP	1	1520	98.3
Holland & Hart LLP	2	1539	96.7
Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane, P.C.	3	721	95.4
Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.	4	775	90.2
Lowenstein Sandler LLP	5	833	88.2
Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP	6	597	88.1
F. CHAU & ASSOCIATES, LLC	7	556	86.9
CKC & Partners Co., LLC	8	602	86.4
Lee & Hayes, P.C.	9	1274	85.6
Keating & Bennett, LLP	10	799	84.5

Patent Quality Rankings Methodology

The Patent Quality Rankings are based only on average errors in issued patents and don't address other important aspects of patent quality. 

For the purpose of computing quality scores, we used only numbering errors, antecedent basis errors, and word support errors (words that don't appear in the detailed description).

Although we may over- or under-count errors in an individual patent, the average number of errors across all of a firm's patents is a good indicator of the overall quality of the firm's work. 

Learn more about our methodology.