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What are the color thresholds for Quality Lists?

The thresholds for our patent quality columns are shown below.  We may make these customizable in the future.

  • Duration
    • Office Actions: Green for 0-3, yellow for 4-5, and red for 6 or more
    • RCEs: Green for 0 for 0-1, yellow for 2, and red for 3 or more
    • Appelas: Green for 0, yellow for 1, and red for 2 or more
    • Pendency: Green for less than 3 years, yellow for 3-4 years, and red for more than 4 years
  • Claim count
    • Green for 3-4 independent claims and 10-30 total claims
    • Yellow if 1-2 or more than 4 independent claims or less than 10 or more than 30 total claims
    • Red if 1 or more than 6 independent claims or less than 5 or more than 50 total claims
  • Claim length (based on change in number of words in first independent claim from the previous version of the claim)
    • Green if length within 10% more than previous claim length (originally filed claims are always green)
    • Yellow if length within 20% more than previous claim length
    • Red if length is more than 20% longer than previous claim length
  • Claim errors (based on the sum of the total number of word support errors, antecedent basis errors and word support errors; warnings are not counted; note the some errors are caused by weird USPTO OCR of claims)
    • Green for 0-2 errors
    • Yellow for 3-6 errors
    • Red for 7 or more errors
  • Deadlines -- See our help article for patent deadlines