Patent Boutiques Obtain Better Outcomes for Clients with Patent Bots

Melanie Grover
Principal
Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

Working as a principal at a boutique prosecution firm, Melanie always has her hands full. Melanie specializes in software patents, which unfortunately includes writing a fair number of appeal briefs to obtain the best outcome for her clients. Melanie also counsels clients on how to improve their patent portfolios.

Melanie's firm relies on legal technology, like Patent Bots, as an important part of its practice. Quite simply, Patent Bots makes you a better patent attorney.

"PatentPlex makes patent prosecution much more efficient."

PatentPlex is a helpful part of Melanie's prosecution practice, and she particularly like the patent timelines and the family trees. The patent timelines provide a succinct visual history of a case, enabling her to quickly assess key dates and prosecution events (such as office actions, RCEs, and appeals). This helps her get up to speed on transferred matters and more efficiently review recommended strategies for matters she supervises. Moreover, PatentPlex allows her to view complex patent family trees, and this provides her with quick insight into the current state of her client’s patent portfolio.

"With Patent Bots Examiner Statistics, I give better advice to my clients."

Patent Bots Examiner Statistics shows her examiner grant rates and recent dispositions, and informs her recommendations on when to appeal and whether to use a pre-appeal brief conference. With the examiner statistics, she gets better outcomes for her clients, she get patents issued more quickly, and she even reduces the costs of prosecution. Clients often want to know why she offers certain prosecution strategies. With Patent Bots, she can back up her recommendations with hard data.

"I use Patent Bots automated proofreading almost every day."

Melanie uses Patent Bots proofreading throughout the prosecution of a patent: before sending a first draft to clients, before filing, with each office action response, and after receiving a notice of allowance. Patent Bots helps to give her peace of mind that she is doing high quality work at all stages of prosecution and, most importantly, that she obtains a high quality issued patent.

Melanie urges her colleagues to use Patent Bots because it increases the quality of the firm’s work and, therefore, the firm's reputation. Patent Bots helps practitioners be more detail oriented with their work and produce the best possible outcomes for their clients.