pp-0116
Patent prosecution attorney receives an office action and needs to decide whether to fight, amend, or appeal — but has no data on this specific examiner's grant rate, allowance patterns, or appeal success rate, so the strategy decision comes down to gut feel instead of evidence, and a wrong call burns through the client's prosecution budget on a losing strategy
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Roles
patent-attorney patent-agent Solo practitioner Small firm (2–20) Mid-size firm (21–200) Large firm (201–500) Partner In-House Counsel
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