April 2023

McCoy Russell client Hardshell Lab is innovating facets of animal conservation. A documentary short film titled “ECO_HACK!” features Hardshell Labs CEO/Found Tim Shields and Hardshell’s team highlighting their work on tortoise conservation in the Mojave Desert. One intervention covered in this documentary is their creation of non-harmful predator aversion technology to address the threatened and endangered desert tortoise indigenous to the Mojave.

McCoy Russell has a strong practice in the Green Technology space, utilizing our expertise to not only help our clients develop a strategic IP portfolio, but advance businesses that will make an impact on our environment. We carry the theme of utilizing innovative technologies for positive impact and are proud to support Hardshell Labs.

As an innovative firm, McCoy Russell blends technology and law developing its state of the art machine learning algorithms through its software arm Ironcrow AI. Ironcrow provides leverages modern advancements in machine learning (ML) to provide support tools in patent drafting, prosecution, and overall portfolio management and evaluation.

McCoy Russell has seen strategic advantages utilizing its proprietary Art Unit Predictor, which leverages a custom ML architecture trained on millions of patent applications to determine which art unit within the USPTO an application is most likely to be assigned. Insight into where a patent application is most likely to end up is useful for patent drafters, as this helps them not only steer toward art units which are more appropriate for the invention at hand, but also better prepare the claims and detailed description in preparation for expected areas of difficulty. Overall, these tools help saving time and expense, while increasing chances of success for the client.

Our cutting edge patent analytics can help minimize rejections and expedite prosecution by avoiding issues before they occur. Learn more about the Art Unit Predictor and try it out yourself at www.ironcrowai.com/predict-art-unit

McCoy Russell continues its recognition as a Top Patent Firm in the U.S. according to Juristat. Juristat’s rankings consider both volume and performance in a specific technology center based on number of applications filed, allowance rate, and average number of offices actions before allowance over a 12-month period.

Performing within the top 10 across various metrics, McCoy Russell maintains its top ranking in Technology Center 3700 which focuses on applications relating to Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products.

McCoy Russell’s software arm Ironcrow blends technology and law developing state of the art machine learning algorithms to make patent prosecution smarter. IronCrow exists to bring modern advancements in machine learning (ML) to patent professionals in the form of time saving tools and insightful analytics.

McCoy Russell leverages Ironcrow’s tools, such as to automate the tedious task of generating a first draft Office Action response, which allows patent professionals to spend more time crafting the substantive arguments and amendments which ultimately determine the prosecution outcome.

The results speak for themselves. McCoy Russell shows its dedication to innovation, applying pioneering solutions and technologies to maximize the potential of our highly-skilled staff to the benefit of our clients.

McCoy Russell continues its recognition as a Top Patent Firm in the U.S. according to Juristat. Juristat’s rankings consider both volume and performance in a specific technology center based on number of applications filed, allowance rate, and average number of offices actions before allowance over a 12-month period.

Performing within the top 10 across various metrics, McCoy Russell maintains its high ranking in Technology Center 3600, which includes applications relating to transportation, e-commerce, construction, agriculture, licensing and review. McCoy Russell has also maintained high ranking in Technology Center 3700, which focuses on applications relating to Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products.

In particular, McCoy Russell is proud to have been, once again, recognized as the Top Patent Firm in Technology Center 3700 for its performance in 2022. McCoy Russell has developed its various strategies and tools to enable highly efficient and effective patent prosecution in a way that provides unparalleled performance and results, as these data-based ratings show, year after year.

Recently, Patexia released its 5th Patent Intelligence Report which provides data on the value of patents as assets and ranks patent firms, companies and attorneys in high-tech and bio-tech based on their number of patents as well as interviews with the USPTO examiners over the past year.

John Russell is among the attorneys whose activity and performance was under evaluation. He achieved noted recognition for his work and classified as one of the Top Attorneys for Patent Prosecution. Based on their initial review, he is ranked within the Top 10 for multiple categories within the publication.

As a small women-owned firm making waves in field of Intellectual Property, McCoy Russell continues to gain recognition for the success of its patent prosecution strategies and the quality of our patent applications.

Aiming to increase accessibility to the patent system, The USPTO and its Counsel for Inclusive Innovation launched its First-Time Filier Expedited Examination Pilot Program.

This program expedites the first office action and there is no petition fee while applying for this program through a petition to make special. These petitions will be accepted under this program until March 11, 2024, or until 1,000 patent applications have been granted special status under this program, whichever occurs earlier.

McCoy Russell has dedicated staff with the technical expertise to help inventors participate in the patent system and take advantage of this program. McCoy Russell is particularly experienced in filing accelerated examination petitions.