Taft’s Intellectual Property practice has, for the third year in a row, been ranked among the Top Patent Firms by Juristat in Technology Center 3600, which includes patent applications relating to Transportation, Electronic Commerce, Construction, Agriculture, Licensing, and Review. The firm is ranked eighth in Allowance Rate and tenth in Avg. Office Actions to Allowance. These statistics exemplify the ability of Taft’s patent prosecution team to effectively and efficiently prosecute patent applications to issuance that may be subject to patentable subject matter rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and 35 U.S.C. § 112. Taft’s Patent Prosecution practice consists of more than 40 registered patent attorneys that practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and prepare and prosecute patent applications in a broad range of technologies.

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 in each of three criteria – allowance rate, average office actions before allowance, and volume of applications filed. Firms are ranked on each of those three key metrics, as well as receive the overall ranking.