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Hello! I found this patent lawyer who is highly rated on AVVO. However, when looking over some patents he has filed in the past, I noticed that more than 50% of the claims for various inventions were canceled. Should I consider this a red flag?
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The percentage of claims that are initially filed that make it into the resulting patents, by itself, means nothing. I would be more concerned if all of the claims that are initially filed that make it into the patent since that means that they are drafted to narrowly. Short of that, the application histories would have to be examined relatively closely to determine, e.g., why claims were rejected and whether problems that arose could have been easily avoided, among other things.
Answered on May 07th, 2014 at 3:44 PM