--- title: PATTSY WAVE Reviews meta_title: 'PATTSY WAVE Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 61 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how PATTSY WAVE works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.0 review_count: 61 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-07' parent_category: name: Legal url: https://www.g2.com/categories/legal --- # PATTSY WAVE Reviews **Vendor:** Anaqua **Category:** [Intellectual Property Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/intellectual-property-management) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 61 ## About PATTSY WAVE PATTSY WAVE® is a powerful, automated patent and trademark docketing software with built-in IP business logic designed to make IP operations more efficient, reduce risk, and improve accuracy. PATTSY WAVE is designed for IP professionals who are looking for a software to increase their productivity and grow with them as their needs evolve. PATTSY WAVE combines sophisticated IP business logic with an incredibly intuitive user-interface that supports anywhere/anytime access. Our signature “single-screen design” and focus on practice automation has consistently set PATTSY WAVE apart. Some other features that make PATTSY WAVE uniquely powerful include: • AutoDocket® and Download which dockets incoming US patents, triggers workflow actions and ensures that the documents are saved against any matter. • Unmatched integration with international patent and trademark databases. • Correspondence generated to clients, outside counsel, and internal colleagues with a single click from any matter. • Bi-directional DMS integration enhances visibility and access to information in your IP portfolio. • Seamless integration with Anaqua Services for managing annuities to minimize risk and improve efficiency. PATTSY WAVE is designed for ease of implementation, ease of use, and ease of maintenance. The low up-front costs make it easy to get started. Our client support team has an unwavering commitment to helping our clients achieve operational efficiency. For over 30 years we have collaborated with our clients to develop a docketing platform that responds to the diverse needs of docketing teams. Our customers are law firms and corporations, small and large organizations, and manage patent or trademark portfolios. We want to work with you. ## PATTSY WAVE Reviews ### 1. PattsyWave Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2021 **What do you like best about PATTSY WAVE?** PattsyWave is simple to use and is intuitive in how it is used. **What do you dislike about PATTSY WAVE?** I wish some of their add ons were actually part of the actual software and not extras with extra costs involved. **What problems is PATTSY WAVE solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pattsy Wave helps us keep track of deadlines and provides timely, detailed reports of upcoming deadlines. It has also made IDS work easier and more streamlined. **Official Response from Gina Schroeder:** > Thank you for your review! It’s great to hear you are taking advantage of the IDS module, and tracking deadlines. Our goal is to help make your job easier. We love to hear the intuitiveness of the software is benefiting you and makes your processes more streamlined. Gina Schroeder Customer Success Director - PATTSY WAVE GSchroeder@anaqua.com ### 2. Highly recommend **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sporting Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2021 **What do you like best about PATTSY WAVE?** All of the data is located on one screen. Easy to navigate and intuitive. **What do you dislike about PATTSY WAVE?** The only minor thing that I dislike is that creating reports is not as intuitive. **What problems is PATTSY WAVE solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to link directly to the USPTO record from PATTSY WAVE makes life easier. **Official Response from Gina Schroeder:** > Thank you for your review! We'd be happy to review the reporting features with you to be sure you're getting the full benefit of reports. We are also delighted to hear that the intuitiveness of the software makes your job easier - after all, that is our ultimate objective! Gina Schroeder Customer Success Director - PATTSY WAVE GSchroeder@anaqua.com ### 3. Pattsy Wave has been very helpful **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about PATTSY WAVE?** I like being able to log onto PattsyWave wherever I have internet access. **What do you dislike about PATTSY WAVE?** I've run into some issues, where Pattsy Support has to get in touch with our IT department, in order to access the server. Not the biggest issues, but sometimes doesn't allow the problem to be solved right away. **What problems is PATTSY WAVE solving and how is that benefiting you?** nothing at the moment. **Official Response from Gina Schroeder:** > We are glad that you have a had a good experience with PATTSY WAVE. We understand it may be difficult to get internal IT departments to focus on individual support issues. If this is an ongoing problem, you can consider moving PATTSY WAVE to our fully hosted environment. Moving to the hosted environment would mean we would provide all support for the application as well as installation of upgrades and all law updates. Gina Schroeder Customer Success Director GSchroeder@anaqua.com ### 4. Pattsy Wave has always been reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2021 **What do you like best about PATTSY WAVE?** The interface is easy to use and the customer service is always the best **What do you dislike about PATTSY WAVE?** At the moment we are find that it meets our needs and there isn't anything we disklike **What problems is PATTSY WAVE solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps with patents and it is so easy to use. Updates are always made to make sure everything is up to date. **Official Response from Gina Schroeder:** > So glad you’re finding PATTSY Wave a great tool to work with. We’ll let our support team know how much you appreciate them! Gina Schroeder Customer Success Director GSchroeder@anaqua.com ### 5. Docketing Adminitrator **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2021 **What do you like best about PATTSY WAVE?** Docket & download feature, automatic docketing of due dates. **What do you dislike about PATTSY WAVE?** Receiving documents from PAIR, that are internal for PTO **What problems is PATTSY WAVE solving and how is that benefiting you?** No need to manually run due date calendars. Automatic docketing of due dates. **Official Response from Gina Schroeder:** > So glad to hear you’re using and liking Docket and Download and getting all the benefits of the automation across the product! Individual documents can be suppressed from the download process. Please contact our Support Team for assistance. Gina Schroeder Customer Success Director GSchroeder@anaqua.com ### 6. Much improved interface compared to the previous version. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2021 **What do you like best about PATTSY WAVE?** Overall ease of use with the new version. **What do you dislike about PATTSY WAVE?** Time to go-live was longer than anticipated. **What problems is PATTSY WAVE solving and how is that benefiting you?** Navigating through PATTSY WAVE and the smooth functionality is a welcomed improvement. ### 7. 1 Year in on a New IP Docketing System **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2019 **What do you like best about PATTSY WAVE?** The ability to autodocket from TSDR and PP is pretty excellent. The amount of time it saves me on reviewing USPTO notices everyday is significant. Also, not necessarily the platform itself, but the techs behind the scene have some of the best customer service skills I've dealt with. I have yet to not get a human being on the other end of the phone and they've been super helpful in automating docketing and being receptive to my needs. **What do you dislike about PATTSY WAVE?** I can't really pick anything that disappoints me about Pattsy except nitpicky things like not being able to rearrange inventors which I get is because it is necessary to have them in a specific order. **What problems is PATTSY WAVE solving and how is that benefiting you?** The report generating functions in Pattsy have been pretty helpful in painting a good overview picture of a lot of things such as months that are deadline heavy in regards to annuities or showing increases and decreases in work based on amount of deadlines due vs. deadlines completed. Pattsy doing international law is also excellent as we reviewed with a number of other platforms that said we would have to review international items on our own which wouldn't work due to our volume. ### 8. Excellent IP Docketing Software **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about PATTSY WAVE?** Great IP Docketing software, lots of features and add-ins. Excellent customer service **What do you dislike about PATTSY WAVE?** There could be more features, but there are some great ones as well. **Recommendations to others considering PATTSY WAVE:** Pattsy is a great program that rivals other docketing softwares on the market. **What problems is PATTSY WAVE solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a great benefit to have a docketing software automated, and I appreciate the customer service provided by Pattsy. ### 9. Daily user **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gail W. | Accounting Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2019 **What do you like best about PATTSY WAVE?** The ability to search in a lot of different ways is very helpful when the information given is minimal. **What do you dislike about PATTSY WAVE?** Nothing really, we find that Pattsy is the most comprehensive solution for our IP firm. **What problems is PATTSY WAVE solving and how is that benefiting you?** tracking work on each application is much more efficient with the ability to post notes to keep everyone informed. ### 10. Buyer Beware. Cumbersome Initial set up of PATTSY WAVE **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Legal Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2015 **What do you like best about PATTSY WAVE?** Web-Based interface. Fast when moving around from case to case. The family tab with a got to different case with a click function. The family tree print out function. All of the links with country patent websites. The auto docket & down load feature. I really like the one line action item docketing. There are not multiple line reminders or actions this makes reading a docket report much easier. **What do you dislike about PATTSY WAVE?** The biggest problem we've had with PATTSY WAVE was the transferring of our data. We were asked to give our database over to the transfer team at OP Solutions. We did. The team didn't ask questions just did the transfer. Because of this status were incorrect on all migrated Invention Disclosures, Provisional applications. Expired provisional showed up in PATTSY as pending or proposed. Docketing was entered numerous times. Our migrated docketed items and then PATTSY would docket it's way because auto docketing using the country law was not turned off. This meant an annuity or maintenance fee was on a case 3 or 4 times with the same due date but with a different action name. This was truly a data dump. OP Solutions did minimal communication during the entire process. We are going to be moving another portfolio from a different site this fall and I'm actually scared for OP Solutions to migration of the data. The reports are another problem. When you try to run a docket report using the Docket Report tab and as to print to Excel you don't get a true standard excel spread sheet. It is virtually impossible to sort this report unless you spend a lot of time removing merged cells and such. I had to make a quick report in order to export to a standard excel spreadsheet and still have to make changes to it in order to do custom sorting. These are the two biggest issues I'm having with PATTSY WAVE. All of the other issues are not as paralyzing and I can work around them or by pass them all together. **Recommendations to others considering PATTSY WAVE:** If you can afford it I would suggest you go with either Computer Packages Inc., or CPA Global. We chose OP Solutions PATTSY WAVE because we wanted to keep our data on our servers in house. You will have a lot of work ahead of you. I've had to change the country laws automation, which drives the docketing due dates. There was no country law for the appeals process in any of the countries we file including the major countries. (US, EP, CN, JP etc) Annuities are auto docketed by filing date based on the country law calculation. This is not correct. Annuities are not due in Asian countries until they issue, like the US not like EP. There are a lot more capabilities with PATTSY that we didn't have with FlexTrack CTS. The IDS function linked with PAIR is one I'm still waiting to use. When I called and asked when this function would be usable I got an uncertain answer. **What problems is PATTSY WAVE solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm not really sure how these two questions apply to my office. ### 11. Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2015 **What do you like best about PATTSY WAVE?** Ease of Use- interface is easy to learn. I like that it has the capability to web validate some countries, but it is unfortunate that the ability to web validate all of the 'most filed in' countries are not available. The Quick Search addition was great. The reporting capabilities are great. I like the built in 'soft' reminder feature- to minimize clutter on the dockets. **What do you dislike about PATTSY WAVE?** Trademarks- The Madrid Protocol setup is NOT ideal. There is no way to easily track the country reference numbers in the record- which is troublesome if you want to 'webcompare' or easily review the portfolio. The software is not 'global' in the sense that there is not a specific Design Portal- although the rest of the world - outside of the USA- treats design applications more like trademarks. It is frustrating, as one of the largest- if not the largest client of the software, that any customization or requests cost so much money. Specifically, when there are other products on the market, that offer customizations for less charge- to no charge. Although I have little exposure to the 'back end' of PATTSY, my understanding is that it is scrambled- and difficult to interface with. For TTAB/PTAB cases, there is no 'easy' way to docket the deadlines- and must be custom built- so much so, that the firm determined a different software would better suit the needs of the practice. **What problems is PATTSY WAVE solving and how is that benefiting you?** The firm standardized the IP practice to one software, which has enabled the group to be more uniform. ## PATTSY WAVE Discussions - [What is PATTSY WAVE used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-pattsy-wave-used-for) - [Can I get a teaching account or demo of the application to be able to show my students the application and function? 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