This dashboard displays your organization’s metrics vs. the USPTO overall for non-provisional applications disposed (allowed, issued, or abandoned) in the past five years.
Basic Benchmarks
The Basic Benchmarks dashboard includes the following metrics as both a single metric and a line graph comparison between your entity and the USPTO overall over time.
Allowance Rate
Allowance rate is calculated as the number of allowed applications divided by the total number of disposed applications (allowed + abandoned).
Average Office Actions
Average Office Actions is calculated as the average number of office actions per disposed application. Office actions include non-final rejections, final rejections, restriction/election requirements, and Ex parte Quayle actions.
Average Time to Disposition
Average time to disposition is displayed in months and calculated as the average number of months between an application’s filing date and an application’s allowance or abandonment date.
Average Interviews per Application
Average interviews is calculated as the average number of interviews per disposed application.
Average RCEs per Application
Average RCEs is calculated as the average number of RCEs filed per disposed application.
Average Appeals per Application
Average appeals is calculated as the average number of appeals per disposed application.
Premium Benchmarks
The Premium Benchmarks dashboard includes all metrics listed above in the Basic Benchmarks dashboard and adds the ability to filter the dashboard, as well as the below metrics:
§112(b) Rejection Rate
The §112(b) rejection rate is the average number of §112(b) rejections per application.
§101 Rejection Rate
The §101 rejection rate is the average number of §101 rejections per application.
Track One
The percentage of filed applications that have a Track One request.
First Action Allowances
The percentage of applications allowed with no final or non-final rejections.