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Pick the right patent firm, enforce standards to uphold your portfolio’s value, and prove worth with hard data
Pick the right patent firm, enforce standards to uphold your portfolio’s value, and prove worth with hard data
Reputation isn’t performance. When it comes to your outside patent counsel, you need evidence. Allowance rate alone won’t cut it. You also need OAs to allowance, pendency, normalized performance vs. examiner baselines, and cost impact.
Juristat gives you a consistent framework to select, manage, and—when needed—reassign outside counsel work. With our Outside Counsel Scorecard, you can compare patent attorneys in your exact tech areas, and align partners to clear policies that reduce cost, improve outcomes, and move your business forward.
Juristat makes outside counsel management measurable. Results are normalized for examiner, art unit, and tech center, so you see true performance—not anecdotes or raw allowance rates.
Build a weighted scorecard with the metrics that matter: allowance vs. baseline, OAs to allowance, pendency, extensions, response time, interview/appeal usage, and cost impact. Add your private fields (BU, product, matter #) for business-level views.
Drill down to underlying matters for proof you can export to QBRs and firm reviews. Schedule scorecards and set alerts for drift—missed interviews, excess OAs, slow responses.
With Juristat you can pick the right firm, enforce standards, and cut spend with evidence you can defend.
Standardize Firm Selection And Oversight
Benchmark law firm performance across cost, speed, and outcomes to ensure alignment with business goals.
Publish if-then rules for interviews, appeals, continuations, and OA thresholds. Monitor adherence across counsel and course-correct quickly.
Adjust the weighting across key metrics such as allowance rate, pendency, office actions, rejection rates, and response time to reflect what matters most to your team. Whether cost savings, speed, or quality is the priority, the Scorecard adapts to your goals.
"We can look at our portfolio across a wide variety of metrics and Juristat helps guide us to make decisions.”
Dashboards, alerts, and automations that turn IP data into action.
Use Juristat Analytics’ objective metrics to select, manage, and improve outside counsel
Disposed applications where the assignee at disposition is your linked entity, across design, utility, and plant types.
Yes. Use the settings dropdown to choose criteria and apply custom weighting.
No. It strengthens it. Use the scorecard to shortlist, justify awards, and manage performance over time.
Yes. Export ranked views and metric breakouts to set expectations and drive improvements.
Juristat Analytics is powered by our exclusive industry-leadring database, pulling up-to-date insights from across more than 10 million pending, abandoned, and granted applications, covering firms, assignees, examiners, art units, and more.
With increasing pressure to justify legal spend and improve patent outcomes, in-house teams need a data-driven framework to assess outside counsel performance and make smarter decisions. This guidebook shows you how to use patent analytics to select, manage, and—when needed—replace your outside legal partners.
