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Game-changing inventions, granted.
Does your startup have a game-changing invention you're ready to share with the world? If so, let's talk about why you need the highest quality patent drafting and prosecution from Nathan & Associates.
01 / Independently measured
Measured, not asserted
96.97%
US grant rate
128 of 132 US cases granted in the period measured. Patent 1024, on USPTO data, 2022–2024.
415
days average pendency
Mean time from filing to grant across those cases. Patent 1024, on USPTO data, 2022–2024.
#96
of 1,024 firms worldwide
Top 1024 Law Firms Ranking, 2022–2024 edition. Composite of grant rate, speed and volume.
Only Israel-based firm
in the global top 100
Verified against the published list of the top 100 ranked firms.
Source: Patent 1024, Top 1024 Law Firms Ranking 2022–2024, computed from USPTO data. Composite score = 35% grant rate + 25% speed + 25% grant volume + 15% application volume, min–max normalised across all 1,024 ranked firms. See the ranking →
Gold in all five prosecution categories
See the full record →Juristat’s Top Patent Firms 2025 Edition awards Gold in each prosecution category separately, on measurable outcomes drawn from its USPTO dataset. There is no application and no fee. Of the 519 firms in the published index, 21 hold Gold in every one of the five categories. Nathan & Associates is one of them, and the only Israel-based firm among them.
Gold
Normalized allowance rate
Fewer abandoned cases and less wasted prosecution spend.
Gold
Normalized time to allowance
Earlier patent value and faster return on R&D investment.
Gold
Normalized office actions to allowance
Fewer office actions and lower total legal fees.
Gold
Extensions
Fewer deadline extensions and more predictable prosecution budgets.
Gold
Time to response after an office action
Reduced risk of late filings and cost overruns.
Source: Juristat, Top Patent Firms 2025 Edition. Awards are based solely on measurable prosecution outcomes from Juristat’s USPTO dataset, with no submissions and no entry fees. Normalized metrics adjust for examiner mix, separating execution from examiner effects. Juristat publishes no composite overall rank; each category stands alone. See the edition →
02 / Why it matters
Protect your property
In order to protect your invention or discovery, you must first secure a patent for it. A patent grants exclusive ownership rights to the creator of an invention. Once a patent is issued, the invention becomes your sole property and is protected for roughly 20 years from the patent effective date.
But registering and taking ownership over property, intellectual or otherwise, is not an easy process, which is why we're here to help.
What can we do for you today?
03 / Fields
We specialise in high tech
Nathan & Associates provides clients with a high-quality, efficient and inventor-friendly service that obtains superior results at competitive costs. Through this service we've helped clients secure hundreds of high-tech patents to date.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Big Data
- Cyber & Network Security
- Electronics & Semiconductors
- Energy Storage
- Imaging & Mobile Device Cameras
- Materials & Mechanics
- Medical Devices
- Micro & Nano Electronics
- Optoelectronics
- Physics
- Telecommunications
Track record / volume
The numbers behind the practice
- 300+patent families drafted
- 2,000+applications filed
- 13jurisdictions
- 1,000+already granted
04 / Who drafts your patent
Your patent is drafted by highly skilled professionals
Nathan & Associates was founded by Prof. Menachem Nathan, a Full Professor (Emeritus) of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University, a registered US Patent Agent, and co-inventor on 40 patents of his own. He holds a PhD in Materials Science from Cornell, was an IBM postdoctoral fellow and a senior scientist at Martin Marietta Laboratories, and has published over 110 scientific papers.
He has personally drafted around 500 patent applications and personally prosecuted more than 1,000. When your invention is genuinely difficult, that background is the difference between a claim that survives and one that doesn't.
Meet the teamWhat our clients say
“Nathan & Associates has been instrumental in drafting over 140 patent families and filing over 1,100 patent applications in the US, Europe, China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan and Israel, of which more than 820 have already been granted as patents. With a rich academic background, Prof. Nathan knows how to deep-dive each of our patent applications and to assist us in drafting the appropriate claims.”
“It is not easy to transform concepts, usually at premature phase, to solid defendable patents. This is where Prof. Nathan excels. Converting abstract ideas to text, and not stopping until it is perfectly clear and accurate.”
“Prof. Nathan's scientific background, experience and drafting and prosecution skills have been invaluable in overcoming abstract idea rejections and securing for us broad patents in subjects involving software and algorithms. He succeeded where much larger firms failed.”
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