Patent analytics

Know the examiner, the topic and the competition before you file or respond.

Every application, read every way that matters: every examiner and how to work with them; every technology topic and whether it is rising; every company and firm and how they fare; and the office itself, year by year.

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Six views of the same record

One subscription, the whole office

EXAMINERS

Know who you are dealing with

Difficulty against every other examiner, allowance, timing, rejections, what works, and an outcome simulator for your next move.

Any keyword, every patent behind it

The matching applications and patents, and the inventors, companies, places and examiners that lead on them.

INVENTORS AND PLACES

Who invents, and where

The most prolific and the fastest-rising inventors and cities, by year and country, with their companies, domains and co-inventors.

TRENDS

See what is being patented

Topics read from every title, rising and fading, each with its allowance rate, its examiners and its filers.

COMPANIES AND FIRMS

Benchmark the competition

Every company, institution and law firm: outcomes by year, the examiners they meet, and how they compare.

THE OFFICE

The whole office in one view

Filings and outcomes year by year, pendency, rejections by statute, tech centers and domains on the move.

See it in use

Real questions, answered in a few clicks

Sixteen ways practitioners, firms, companies and universities use it. Each one plays out below as it happens on the site.

Prosecution counselPro

A final rejection just arrived. What is the best next move?

The outcome simulator follows this examiner’s own record from where you are to the end of prosecution, for every move you could make.

Search the examiner by name
Choose where you are: a final rejection
Compare the eventual odds and months of each move

✓Pick the move with the best odds, and give the client a timeline you can defend.

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Before a callPro

Is an interview worth the client’s money with this examiner?

Allowance with and without an interview, and how often this examiner grants one, side by side with the art unit.

Open the examiner
Read the interview benefit
Book the interview, or skip it

✓Spend the hour where it changes the outcome.

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Appeal decisionsPro

Appeal, or file another RCE?

How often the Board reverses this examiner, how many appealed cases end in allowance, and what the RCE path costs in months.

Open the examiner
Read the appeal statistics
Weigh them against the RCE path in the simulator

✓Appeal when the record says the Board tends to side with applicants here.

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Client expectationsFree

How long will it take, and how many rounds should we budget for?

The grant rate timeline from the first action, the months to a first action and the rejections before allowance, in one view.

Look up the examiner
Read the 3-year grant rate and the curve
Quote the client a schedule and a budget

✓Estimates the client can hold you to, backed by the record.

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Drafting and amendmentPro

What will this examiner reject on, and what gets withdrawn?

The rejection fingerprint by statute against the art unit, and how often each ground disappears after a response.

Open the rejection fingerprint
See where this examiner departs from the art unit
Shape the claims and the response around it

✓Fewer surprises in the next office action.

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DocketingPro

When should the response go in?

The response clock shows how long the examiner takes to act once you answer; quarter-end timing shows when allowances cluster.

Open the response clock
Check the quarter-end pattern
Send the response when it counts

✓A response that is ready before a quarter closes may be worth sending early.

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In-house and portfolio managersPro

Which of our pending cases deserve another round?

Save the examiners on your docket and compare them: allowance, odds by round, speed, and who leads on each.

Save the examiners on your cases
Compare up to four at once
Push the winnable cases; rethink the rest

✓Spend the prosecution budget where it buys patents.

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Technology transferFree

Is this research area crowded, and does it get allowed?

Type any phrase: filings by year, whether it is rising or fading, its allowance rate, and who files it.

Type a phrase from the disclosure
Read the trend and the allowance rate
See the filers and examiners behind it

✓Decide what to file, and where the competition is, before you spend.

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Recruiting and partnershipsPro

Who are the leading inventors in this field?

Inventor rankings by year and country, by applications or patents granted, and the inventors rising fastest, each with a profile.

Pick a year and a country
Rank by patents granted, or see who is rising
Open an inventor: companies, co-inventors, examiners

✓Find the people to hire, license from or partner with.

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Economic developmentPro

Where is this technology being invented?

Cities and countries ranked by the patents of the inventors who live there, and the places gaining share of new filings fastest.

Open the places rankings
Switch to trending
Open a city: companies, inventors and domains

✓See where innovation is growing before it shows up anywhere else.

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Competitive intelligencePro

How do we compare with our competitors at the office?

Put up to four companies side by side: allowance curves, speed, rejections, and who leads on each measure.

Pick the companies
Compare them on the same axes
Find where you trail, and why

✓A benchmark for the board and for outside counsel.

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Choosing counselPro

Which firms do well in our technology?

Every firm with its outcomes, the examiners it meets, and the clients it files for.

Open the firms list
Narrow to your technology
Shortlist on outcomes, not reputation

✓Hire the firm whose record in your art speaks for itself.

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Licensing and due diligenceFree

How strong is this company’s patent pipeline?

Filings and outcomes by year, allowance and speed against the office, the examiners met and the firms used.

Find the company
Read the pipeline by year
Check pending cases and their examiners

✓Value a portfolio on its prosecution record.

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Client communicationFree

Explain the odds to a client in plain words

Ask the record answers ten common questions in a sentence or two, each with its chart, ready to paste into a report.

Open the examiner
Click a question
Paste the answer and the chart

✓Clients understand the odds, and see the work behind your advice.

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Policy and researchPro

How have rejections by statute changed over the years?

The office year by year: filings and outcomes, pendency, rejections by statute, tech centers compared and domains on the move.

Open the office view
Read any statute by filing year
Drill into a tech center or domain

✓The whole office, in one view, for briefings and research.

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Firms with their own toolsTeam

Put examiner odds into the docketing system

A JSON API with every examiner, art unit, topic, company and firm, for docketing, drafting and reporting tools.

Create a key on the account page
Call the API from your system
Show the odds next to every case

✓The figures where your team already works.

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Only here

Five analytics no other service publishes

Each one is computed from the complete record, every application and every office action, not sampled and not estimated.

01 · THE EXAMINER LOTTERY

How much of the outcome the draw decides

Inside each art unit, the share of outcome differences explained by the examiner, the technology, the law firm and the filing year, and how many points of allowance separate a lucky draw from an unlucky one. On every art unit page, with the luckiest and unluckiest draws named.

02 · THE EXAMINER TODAY

The record that applies to you, not the career average

Every examiner’s grant rate by filing year, scanned for the one split that changed it for good. When an examiner turned harder or easier, the page says since when, by how many points, and on how many applications.

03 · DECODE THE FIRST ACTION

What the first office action tells about the end

Read from the action itself: an eligibility rejection, anticipation, obviousness alone, clarity alone, a restriction, an allowance. For each, how often it ended in a patent, how many more actions it took, and how many months.

04 · THE COST OF THE RECORD

The same examiner can cost twice what another costs

Office actions, RCEs, interviews and appeals per application, priced at typical firm rates and at Patly’s published prices, with the months to the end beside them. A budget you can defend before the first action arrives.

05 · DRAW-ADJUSTED LIFT

Which firms and companies actually beat their draw

A raw grant rate rewards whoever drew easy examiners. The lift compares every application with what its own examiner’s record predicted, so a firm that wins hard cases shows above one that collects easy ones. Ranked across the office.

AND THE REST

Everything a practitioner has asked for

The outcome simulator for the next move, grounds withdrawn after a response, what works against each examiner, the references an examiner cites, similar examiners, the quarter-end effect and the response clock.

Why it pays for itself

Three decisions you make with the record instead of a hunch

01 · RESPOND

The right move after a rejection

Amend, argue, interview, file an RCE or appeal: the outcome simulator follows this examiner’s own record to the end of prosecution and gives the odds and the months of each move.

02 · PLAN

Timelines and budgets you can defend

Months to the first action, rejections before allowance, when allowances land in the quarter, and how long the examiner takes to answer.

03 · TRIAGE

Which cases deserve another round

Odds of allowance by round, after an RCE and after a final rejection, for every examiner on your docket. Push the winnable cases and stop paying for the rest.

Live, on a real examiner

Not a mock-up: try it on real data

This is Docket Central in art unit OPAP, with every panel open. Ask a question, or press a what-if and watch the simulator answer from the record.

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Outcome simulator

Where you are, what you do next, and the odds that follow

Built from this examiner’s own transitions: every action, the response to it, and what came next.

Prosecution paths

How prosecution actually unfolds with this examiner

Every application’s sequence of actions, from the first action to the outcome.

Everything inside

50 capabilities, one record

What each plan includes. Free shows how hard every examiner is; Pro opens everything that turns the figures into decisions.

Every examiner, art unit and tech center

The examiner lottery: how much of the outcome the draw decides, and the luckiest and unluckiest drawsFree

The examiner today: the filing year after which the grant rate changed for goodFree

Decode the first action: how each kind of first office action endedPro

The cost of the record: actions, RCEs, months and dollars, at firm rates and with PatlyPro

Draw-adjusted lift for every firm and company: skill with the luck of the draw taken outPro

3-year grant rate, allowance rate with its likely range, difficulty rating and percentileFree

Months to a first action and rejections before allowance, in plain wordsFree

Grant rate timeline from the first office actionFree

Applications by filing yearFree

Allowance over time since filing, with abandonmentsPro

Compared with the art unit, the tech center and the whole officePro

Interview benefitPro

Appeal statisticsPro

Recent dispositionsPro

Outcome simulator for your next movePro

Prosecution pathsPro

Rejection fingerprint by statutePro

Grounds withdrawn after a responsePro

What works: allowance by the strategy usedPro

Odds of allowance by roundPro

Response clockPro

Quarter-end timingPro

Appeal historyPro

Allowance trend by filing yearPro

Who files here, and how they farePro

Prior art the examiner citesPro

Similar examinersPro

Every application, with its full historyPro

Any span of filing years, recomputedPro

Technology, companies, firms and the office

The office year by year, domains on the move, the landscape and the heatmapFree

Rejections by statute over timePro

Any phrase looked up across every titleFree

The top of every ranking: topics, companies, firmsFree

Every topic, with the examiners and filers behind itPro

Every company and institutionPro

Every law firm and agentPro

Search, inventors and places

Keyword search: the matching patents, inventors, companies, places and examinersFree

Every match, filtered by outcome and year, with CSV exportPro

Examiner difficulty against every other examiner, by art unit, tech center or officeFree

The top of the inventor and city rankingsFree

Inventor rankings by year and country, and the fastest risingPro

City and country rankings, and the places gaining sharePro

Co-inventor networksPro

Workflow

Search by name, art unit, CPC subclass or applicationFree

Saved examiners, companies and firmsFree

Compare up to four side by sidePro

LeaderboardsPro

CSV exportPro

Up to ten people on one planTeam

JSON APITeam

Beyond the usual examiner statistics

Everything the usual tools show. Then everything they don’t.

Analytics	Usual examiner statistics	Patly Patent Analytics
Grant rate and a difficulty ranking	Yes	YesWith the likely range, the rank within the tech center and the rank across all examiners
Grant rate timeline from the first office action, with the 3-year grant rate	Yes	YesAnd the full allowance curve since filing, with abandonments on it
Interview benefit	Yes	YesAllowance with and without an interview, and the next-action odds after one
Appeal statistics and appeal history	Yes	YesFiled, briefed, answered, decided; affirmed, reversed, remanded, withdrawn
Recent dispositions	Yes	YesEvery application examined, with its full timeline and the office actions read
Rejections by statute	Yes	YesAnd how often each ground is withdrawn after a response
Compared with the art unit and the whole office	Yes	YesAnd the tech center, with every examiner placed on one landscape
Outcome simulator: amend, argue, interview, RCE or appeal, with the odds and months of each	No	YesPatly only
Prosecution paths: how cases actually flow from the first action to the outcome	No	YesPatly only
What works: allowance by the strategy used, against the art unit	No	YesPatly only
Odds by round, response clock, quarter-end timing	No	YesPatly only
Who files here: assignees and firms with their outcomes	No	YesPatly only
Prior art the examiner relies on	No	YesPatly only
Domain heatmap: allowance by technology and filing year	No	YesPatly only
Ask the record: ten questions answered in plain words, each with its chart	No	YesPatly only
Compare up to four examiners or art units, leaderboards by tech center	Some tools	YesPatly only
Saved examiners, CSV export and a JSON API	Some tools	YesPatly only

The whole office

Every examiner on one map, every domain by year

Allowance rate across, rejections before allowance down, one dot per examiner. Click any dot to open the profile.

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Domains by filing year

Where allowance got easier, and where it got harder

Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when it pays.

Every plan is month to month or yearly with two months free, billed by card, and can be cancelled at any time.

Free

no card, no time limit

Grant rate and difficulty for every examiner
The examiner difficulty plot
Grant rate timeline and filings by year
Keyword search and the top of every ranking

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A free account also saves the examiners, companies and firms you follow.

Pro

$29 / month

or $290 a year · one person

Everything in Free
The outcome simulator and prosecution paths
Interview benefit, appeals and recent dispositions
Rejection fingerprint, what works, odds by round
Every application, inventor, company, firm and city
Compare, leaderboards and CSV export

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Team

$99 / month

or $990 a year · up to 10 people

Everything in Pro, for up to 10 people
One plan and one invoice, with seats you manage
The JSON API for docketing and drafting tools
More people, or annual invoicing? Talk to us

Start Team Yearly: $990

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Feature	Free	Pro	Team
Every examiner, art unit and tech center
The examiner lottery: how much of the outcome the draw decides, and the luckiest and unluckiest draws	✓	✓	✓
The examiner today: the filing year after which the grant rate changed for good	✓	✓	✓
Decode the first action: how each kind of first office action ended	—	✓	✓
The cost of the record: actions, RCEs, months and dollars, at firm rates and with Patly	—	✓	✓
Draw-adjusted lift for every firm and company: skill with the luck of the draw taken out	—	✓	✓
3-year grant rate, allowance rate with its likely range, difficulty rating and percentile	✓	✓	✓
Months to a first action and rejections before allowance, in plain words	✓	✓	✓
Grant rate timeline from the first office action	✓	✓	✓
Applications by filing year	✓	✓	✓
Allowance over time since filing, with abandonments	—	✓	✓
Compared with the art unit, the tech center and the whole office	—	✓	✓
Interview benefit	—	✓	✓
Appeal statistics	—	✓	✓
Recent dispositions	—	✓	✓
Outcome simulator for your next move	—	✓	✓
Prosecution paths	—	✓	✓
Rejection fingerprint by statute	—	✓	✓
Grounds withdrawn after a response	—	✓	✓
What works: allowance by the strategy used	—	✓	✓
Odds of allowance by round	—	✓	✓
Response clock	—	✓	✓
Quarter-end timing	—	✓	✓
Appeal history	—	✓	✓
Allowance trend by filing year	—	✓	✓
Who files here, and how they fare	—	✓	✓
Prior art the examiner cites	—	✓	✓
Similar examiners	—	✓	✓
Every application, with its full history	—	✓	✓
Any span of filing years, recomputed	—	✓	✓
Technology, companies, firms and the office
The office year by year, domains on the move, the landscape and the heatmap	✓	✓	✓
Rejections by statute over time	—	✓	✓
Any phrase looked up across every title	✓	✓	✓
The top of every ranking: topics, companies, firms	✓	✓	✓
Every topic, with the examiners and filers behind it	—	✓	✓
Every company and institution	—	✓	✓
Every law firm and agent	—	✓	✓
Search, inventors and places
Keyword search: the matching patents, inventors, companies, places and examiners	✓	✓	✓
Every match, filtered by outcome and year, with CSV export	—	✓	✓
Examiner difficulty against every other examiner, by art unit, tech center or office	✓	✓	✓
The top of the inventor and city rankings	✓	✓	✓
Inventor rankings by year and country, and the fastest rising	—	✓	✓
City and country rankings, and the places gaining share	—	✓	✓
Co-inventor networks	—	✓	✓
Workflow
Search by name, art unit, CPC subclass or application	✓	✓	✓
Saved examiners, companies and firms (free account)	✓	✓	✓
Compare up to four side by side	—	✓	✓
Leaderboards	—	✓	✓
CSV export	—	✓	✓
Up to ten people on one plan	—	—	✓
JSON API	—	—	✓

Questions

Plans, figures and how they are made

What does the free plan include?

For every examiner, art unit and tech center: the 3-year grant rate, the allowance rate, the difficulty rating with the plot of where the examiner sits among all the others, the grant rate timeline and filings by year. Also keyword search and the top of every ranking, and with a free account you can save what you follow. No card, and no time limit.

What do Pro and Team add?

Pro adds everything that turns the figures into decisions: the outcome simulator, prosecution paths, the interview benefit, appeal statistics and history, recent dispositions, the allowance curve and the comparison with peers, the rejection fingerprint and what works, odds by round, the response clock, every application with its history, every inventor, company, firm and city, compare, leaderboards and CSV export. Team gives the same to up to 10 people on one plan, with the JSON API; for more people or annual invoicing, talk to us.

Can I cancel, or switch between monthly and yearly?

Yes. Plans are billed by card through Stripe, and you can change or cancel them at any time from your account page; access continues to the end of the period already paid.

How are the figures computed?

From the complete prosecution history of every application: every transaction, the office actions themselves read and classified by statute, and the outcome. Nothing is estimated, and every figure shows the number of cases behind it.

How does the outcome simulator work?

It counts, for each examiner, what happened after every action: which response was filed and what the examiner did next. Chaining those observed transitions gives the odds of eventual allowance and the expected time from wherever you are. Where an examiner’s own record is thin it borrows from the art unit, and it says so.

What is the 3-year grant rate?

The share of applications allowed within three years of the first office action, read off the grant rate timeline. Applications still pending count only for the time they have been pending, so recent cases do not drag the figure down.

Is this legal advice?

No. These are statistics about past prosecution, to inform the judgment of the registered practitioner on the matter.

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