Patent Performance compares prosecution outcomes across your US patent matters, grouped by law firm, technology, product or another dimension. Heads of IP use it to see which outside counsel reach allowance faster, with fewer office actions and shorter claims. Most results come from each matter's USPTO prosecution history. Drafting metrics use the published application, and disclosure timing uses each disclosure's stage history.
Who Can Use Patent Performance
Users with the Administrator, Inhouse Counsel or Inhouse Paralegal role can open Performance. Outside counsel, inventors, patent committee members and search vendors cannot see it. Only Administrators and Inhouse Counsel can save views or change scoring.
Key Capabilities
22 metrics in four groups — Prosecution, Claims, Drafting and Timeliness, from Allowance rate to Average OA mail date to response filing.
Group by — Compare matters by Law firm, Technology, Product, Entity size, Ownership origin or Disposition.
Five layouts — View the comparison as a Table, Bars, Heatmap, Scatter or Distribution.
Composite score — A scored view blends weighted metrics into one 0–100 score per group, relative to the other groups shown.
Company views — Saved views are shared with everyone in your company who can open Performance.
Drill-down to matters — Click any group, score or value to see the matters behind it.
How Patent Performance Works
Open Patents > Intelligence > Performance. The page opens on the OC Scorecard company view, which groups US nonprovisional matters by the outside counsel firm assigned to each. Use the View pill to switch to another company view, such as Prosecution outcomes by Technology.
Change Group by or Layout to look at the data another way. Click Filter to narrow the matters by law firm, technology, product, application type, art unit, office action count, filed claim length or Period, among others. Use Display to choose which metric columns appear.
Under each value, ArcPrime shows how many matters it measured. A line above the comparison shows the date range analyzed and flags matters awaiting re-analysis. If that line says Automatic updates are off, contact ArcPrime support.
Drilling Into the Numbers
Click a group name to open that group's page.
Click a score to see its breakdown, with each metric's raw value, sample, weight, preference and points.
Click a metric value to see that group's distribution, with its median, mean and peer median.
Click a metric column header to compare that metric across every group.
Each page ends with a list of the matters measured. Click a row to open the patent in a new tab, or click Performance in the breadcrumb to return to the comparison.
Note: Performance covers US matters with a USPTO prosecution history. If the page reads No performance data yet, those histories have not been analyzed yet.
Common Use Cases
Use Case | How ArcPrime Helps |
Outside counsel reviews | Rank firms on allowance rate, office actions to allowance and response timeliness |
Reallocating work | Compare firms on the same filtered set of matters before moving a technology |
Technology strategy | Group by Technology to see where prosecution is slowest |
Claim length checks | Compare the word count of the shortest granted independent claims each firm obtains |
Getting Started with Performance Scorecards
No setup is needed to explore the default views. To save your own views or change how the composite score is weighted, see how to customize performance scorecards.
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How to Customize Performance Scorecards — Save company views and set metric weights
How to Manage Outside Counsel — Maintain the firms that Performance groups by
User Roles and Permissions — Which roles can open and manage Performance
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