Andrew R. Basile, Jr.Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane P.C. is a technology-focused boutique IP law firm with 53 attorneys working in six offices around the country. The firm provides strategic counsel across the full IP lifecycle for technology companies ranging from venture-backed startups to Fortune 5 enterprises.
Of the 709 firms included in the 2026 Patent Bots Patent Quality Rankings, Young Basile ranked #3 among large patent firms (those with 500+ issued patents) and in the top 10 overall across all firms. Additionally, the firm ranked #1 among firms in Tech Center 2100, #2 in Tech Centers 2600 and 3600, #4 in Tech Center 2400, and #7 in Tech Center 3700, earning more Patent Quality badges than any other firm in this year’s rankings.
“Our clients trust us with innovations that represent years of investment. Holding our work to an objective, measurable standard of quality is how we honor that trust,” said Andrew Basile, Jr., President of Young Basile.
Young Basile’s place in the Patent Bots rankings is the product of a firm culture built around quality. The firm’s success reflects a deliberate strategy: the right processes and the right tools that treat quality as non-negotiable.
That strategy began with Young Basile launching a firmwide initiative focused on quality. “When we started the initiative, the primary goal was simple, even if the execution was not: hold every application to a higher quality standard by building a reliable, scalable process that treats each patent as if it might face a challenge tomorrow,” said Warren Pate, Director of Legal Operations for Young Basile.
Young Basile’s approach is distinctive in its rigor. The firm applied lean manufacturing principles to its patent workflows, developing checklists at multiple stages of preparation and prosecution, tracking and sharing error data across filings, and building a culture of direct accountability. The processes are championed by leadership and embraced by practitioners across the firm.
“We don’t treat proofreading as a final step; we treat it as a standard that has to hold across every attorney, every application, every day. That means real processes: documented workflows, systematic review, accountability at every level. That’s how you achieve and maintain quality when you’re issuing hundreds of patents a year,” said Pate.
While Young Basile was already using some Patent Bots tools, it was not using Prep & Pros Pro and had a different tool in place for proofreading. The firm’s previous proofreading solution had adoption within the firm, but practitioners found it to be slow to return results, with output that was harder to interpret and act on.
As part of the quality initiative, the firm evaluated its options, putting Patent Bots and its existing tool to the test side by side. The comparison included a quantitative analysis of proofreading speed and each tool’s detection of antecedent-basis and word-support issues.
“Not only did the numbers speak for themselves, but the overall user experience of Patent Bots was superior, and that was a big deal in driving attorney adoption,” said Pate.
The firm implemented Patent Bots Prep & Pros Pro and transitioned to it firmwide. Paired with the new quality-tracking processes, it gave Young Basile both the discipline and the tooling its quality initiative demanded.
The firm’s commitment to quality shows up in its clients’ results as well. Zoom Communications, Inc., for which Young Basile serves as lead patent counsel, ranked #1 among all companies in the 2026 Patent Bots Quality Rankings. For technology companies whose patent portfolios represent years of R&D investment, the Zoom result is a concrete proof point: when rigorous processes and the right tools are applied consistently, it shows up in the results that matter.
“A result like Zoom’s reflects a genuine partnership. Their team sets a high bar for the portfolio, and our job is to meet that bar on every application we prepare and prosecute,” said Kayvon Pourmirzaie, Shareholder, who leads the firm’s work for Zoom.
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