Taft IP Team Recognized By Juristat’s Top Patent Firms 2025

Taft's Intellectual Property practice has been recognized in Juristat's Top Patent Firms 2025. Juristat's rankings are based on its database of more than 10 million pending, abandoned, and granted patent applications, enabling an objective analysis of the performance of every law firm practicing within the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). For each technology center, Juristat identifies the top firms over a twelve-month period in allowance rate, average office actions before allowance, and volume of applications filed. Juristat's methodology considers outcome, efficiency, resilience, market position, and industry strength.

Taft's Patent Prosecution team is honored to have been recognized in all five of Juristat's metric categories, as follows:

• Normalized Allowance Rate - Silver
  • Raw allowance rate can hide docket difficulty. Normalized Allowance Rate adjusts each firm's result relative to the examiners they faced, so you see outcomes-not examiner bias. By correcting for systematically easier or harder examiners, this metric makes cross-firm comparisons fair and puts the focus on whether the work converted to granted rights.
• Normalized Time to Allowance - Bronze
  • Raw speed can be misleading when examiner cadence varies. Normalized Time to Allowance adjusts each firm's time-to-allowance to account for examiner-specific processing speeds. This isolates true efficiency across mixed dockets: teams that keep cases moving, reduce cycle time, and align outcomes with product timelines.
• Normalized OAs to Allowance - Bronze
  • Normalized OAs to Allowance adjusts the raw count of office actions to account for examiner-specific tendencies. Some examiners issue more OAs as a matter of course; others issue fewer. By normalizing, this metric highlights teams that advance cases with fewer turns, reduce fees and rework, and keep prosecution compact across mixed dockets.
• Extensions - Silver
  • Extensions add cost, slow momentum, and signal avoidable friction. Firms with lower extension usage plan better, staff appropriately, and keep cases moving without last-minute delays. This metric highlights predictable responses, fewer fee bumps, and tighter paths to allowance across mixed dockets.
• Time to Response After OA - Silver
  • Time to Response After OA measures the average days between receiving an office action and filing the first response. Lower values signal tight workflows, adequate staffing, and proactive case management-habits that keep momentum with the examiner, shorten the overall prosecution timeline, and improve client experience. This metric highlights predictable turnarounds.

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