Rothwell Figg is recognized in Juristat's 2025 Top Patent Firms, determined using Juristat's proprietary USPTO dataset and highlighting real strengths by industry and outcome, earning Gold and Silver in six categories. Rothwell Figg's honors include:
- Normalized Allowance Rate: Gold
- "Normalized Allowance Rate adjusts each firm’s result relative to the examiners they faced, so you see outcomes—not examiner bias. By correcting for systematically easier or harder examiners, this metric makes cross-firm comparisons fair and puts the focus where clients care most: did the work convert to granted rights."
- Normalized Time to Allowance: Silver
- "Normalized Time to Allowance adjusts each firm’s time-to-allowance to account for examiner-specific processing speeds, so you see execution—not examiner luck. This isolates true efficiency across mixed dockets: teams that keep cases moving, reduce cycle time, and align outcomes with product timelines."
- Normalized OAs to Allowance: Silver
- "Normalized OAs to Allowance adjusts the raw count of office actions to account for examiner-specific tendencies. Some examiners issue more OAs as a matter of course; others issue fewer. By normalizing—so you see execution, not examiner bias—this metric highlights teams that advance cases with fewer turns, reduce fees and rework, and keep prosecution compact across mixed dockets."
- Extensions: Silver
- "Firms with lower extension usage plan better, staff appropriately, and keep cases moving without last-minute delays—exactly the kind of operational discipline clients value. This metric highlights cadence you can count on: predictable responses, fewer fee bumps, and tighter paths to allowance across mixed dockets."
- Time to Response After OA: Silver
- "Time to Response After OA measures the average days between receiving an office action and filing the first response. Lower values signal tight workflows, adequate staffing, and proactive case management—habits that keep momentum with the examiner, shorten the overall prosecution timeline, and improve client experience. This metric highlights cadence you can count on: predictable turnarounds without last-minute scrambles."
- Top Outside Counsel
- "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."
To determine the Top Patent Firms, Juristat evaluated firms that filed or disposed of more than 100 applications in a fixed 12-month window, from July 8, 2023 to July 8, 2024. The rankings are designed to reflect how clients evaluate patent prosecution performance, including outcomes, speed, efficiency, difficulty, and scale. The awards are powered by Juristat's proprietary USPTO dataset, the industry's most comprehensive and accurate view of prosecution.
To view the full list of Juristat's 2025 Top Patent Firms, please visit their website.