Burris Law Ranks Among Nation’s Top Patent Quality Firms for Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products

July 23, 2026

Burris Law ranks No. 5 in the 2026 Patent Bots® Patent Quality Rankings for USPTO Technology Center 3700, which covers patent applications in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, and Products.

Patent Bots recently announced its latest rankings of top patent law firms in each USPTO Technology Center after reviewing more than 327,000 patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the past year.

The rankings use Patent Bots’ machine learning software to evaluate issued patents for certain detectable drafting errors, including numbering errors, antecedent basis errors, and word support errors. Burris Law earned a Patent Quality Score of 99.4 in Technology Center 3700, placing the firm among the Top 5 patent firms in the country for patent quality in the fields of mechanical engineering, manufacturing, and products.

The subcategory ranking follows news earlier this year that Burris Law ranked No. 5 among U.S. law firms for patent quality in the Patent Bots® 2026 Patent Quality Rankings: The Top 50 Patent Law Firms.

Burris Law is a full-service intellectual property law firm providing global counsel in patent preparation and prosecution, post-grant proceedings, trademarks, trade secrets, IP transactions, and strategic portfolio development. Led by founder Kelly Burris — an aerospace engineer, licensed pilot, and IP attorney — the firm is known for its “fly-to-client” service model, which prioritizes hands-on understanding of clients’ technologies, businesses, and innovations.

Burris Law serves more than 600 clients, including Fortune 50, Fortune 100, and Fortune 500 companies, mid-sized manufacturers, emerging businesses, and individual inventors. The firm’s attorneys and patent agents have filed thousands of patent applications worldwide. Burris Law has offices in Detroit and St. Louis.

Over the last 10 years, Burris Law has earned accolades from legal, business, and industry publications, including Juristat’s “Top Patent Firms” in patent prosecution before the USPTO; Best Law Firms® Tier 1 in Detroit in Patent Law; the Patent Bots® Patent Quality Rankings; “Best Women-Led Law Firms” by Michigan Lawyers Weekly; and recognition as a “Diversity-Focused Company” honoree by Corp! Magazine.