Juristat Top Patent Firms | Top Outside Counsel

Top Outside Counsel spotlights the firms that leading assignees actually choose and keep. It’s a market signal that blends trust, results, and scale where purchase decisions happen. For each of the top 100 filing assignees at the USPTO, we identify their Top 3 outside counsel using the same composite Juristat Analytics customers rely on in the Outside Counsel Scorecard.

That formula is (allowance rate rank) + (average office actions rank) + (pendency rank) + (112b rate) + (response time rank). The firm with the lower overall score will rank higher. We're honoring the firms listed at disposition, in no particular order.

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Firms with more than 100 applications filed or disposed in the fixed 12-month window. We disclose the coverage dates on the methodology page.

Gold, Silver, and Bronze are assigned within each category split by thirds among eligible firms. Exact ties share the same designator.

No! Firms do not have to use Juristat, nor do they need to apply to participate in the rankings. The Top Patent Firm rankings are powered by our industry-leading database of more than 10 million patent applications. This is the very same database that makes our tools so robust.