Google has filed more than fourteen thousand patent applications at an impressive grant rate of 87% at the USPTO. At present, Google has 3065 pending US patent applications. We analyzed the pending applications by using GreyB’s FIT (File Impediment Tracker) Tool.
The FIT tool helps in-house counsels save the IP budget. It finds patent applications increasing prosecution costs due to prolonged prosecution cycle, more OAs, appeals, amendments, and RCEs, and suggests remedial actions and strategies.
Impediment Status/Prosecution Health of Google’s Pending Applications
To determine the impediment status, we have segregated the pending applications of Google into the below three categories:
- SOS – Facing High difficulty at USPTO
- At-Risk – Applications that were running smoothly but of late have started displaying high probabilities of turning into an SOS application
- On-Track – Running smooth as butter
The below exhibit displays the impediment status of applications:
Office Actions Statistics of Google’s Pending Applications
44.4% of pending applications haven’t received a single office action, and their examination has yet to begin. Also, Google’s average office action rate is 1.77 office actions per patent application. Considering this, 32% of pending applications of Google have an OA rate greater than its average OA rate.
Interview Statistics
Year-wise distribution of Google’s Pending Patent Applications
The per-year count of pending applications has increased steadily over the last decade for Google.
Google’s average grant time is 2.87 years. ~17% of pending applications of Google have been in prosecution for 3 or more than 3 years. You can find more about these 17% lot here: Google patent applications that have been in prosecution for 3 or more years
RCE Statistics
Law Firms Prosecuting Pending Applications of Google at the USPTO
The table below has details of law firms prosecuting the pending applications. You can check the top law firms that prosecuted most patents for Google here: Law firms that prosecuted most patents for Google at the USPTO
| Law Firm | Number of Patents |
| Fish & Richardson P.C. | 546 |
| Dority & Manning P.A. And Google Llc | 250 |
| Google Llc | 233 |
| Middleton Reutlinger (Google Llc) | 233 |
| Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff Llp | 207 |
| Foley & Lardner Llp | 199 |
| Byrne Poh Llp/Google Llc | 186 |
| Honigman Llp-Google | 153 |
| 129 | |
| Colby Nipper / Google | 126 |
| Brake Hughes Bellermann Llp | 101 |
| Waymo Llc | 99 |
| Lowenstein Sandler Llp / Google / Google | 97 |
| Cojk/Verily Life Sciences Llc | 82 |
| Verily / Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Llp | 73 |
| Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A. | 70 |
| Marshall, Gerstein & Borun Llp (Google) | 48 |
| Ip Spring – Le | 42 |
| Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson Llp; Fitbit | 34 |
| Google Llc – Nest Labs / Kilpatrick Townsend | 27 |
| Jason Lohr-Fitbit | 21 |
| Butzel Long / 030120 | 19 |
| Byrne Poh Llp / Google Technology Holdings Llc | 13 |
| Loon Llc | 12 |
| Cozen O”Connor/North | 11 |
| Oblon/Google | 8 |
| Haynes And Boone, Llp (56866) | 7 |
| Perkins Coie Llp – Verily Life Sciences | 6 |
| Cojk/Wing Aviation Llc | 4 |
| Marshall, Gerstein & Borun Llp (Google/Atap) | 4 |
| Marton Ribera Schumann & Chang Llp | 4 |
| Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Llp (Pa)(Google) | 4 |
| Setter Roche Llp – Verily | 4 |
| Honigman Llp-Motorola Mobility | 3 |
| Leason Ellis Llp | 2 |
| Dority & Manning, P.A. And Google Technology | 1 |
| Google/Technology Holdings Llc | 1 |
| Haynes And Boone, Llp (60430) | 1 |
| Honigman Llp-Boston Dynamics | 1 |
| Johnson, Marcou, Isaacs & Nix, Llc | 1 |
| Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, Llp | 1 |
| Lowenstein Sandler Llp | 1 |
| Polsinelli Pc | 1 |
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