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CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

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64,863 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

87%

+12 pts vs the USPTO range 87% to 87%

Rejections before allowance

1.4

−0.2 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

16.6 mo

−2.0 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

33%

+6 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

Applications by filing year: drag across the years to study a period

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Compared with the office

Against every applicant before the USPTO

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Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

H04N Pictorial communication, television13,826 apps

G03G 10,576 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing6,492 apps

B41J 5,045 apps

G02B Optical elements2,847 apps

G06T Image data processing or generation2,793 apps

Art units

28528,316 apps

28534,147 apps

OPAP3,006 apps

28722,104 apps

26721,335 apps

26751,260 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central3,089 apps

n/a

Sophia S Chen563 apps

98%

Sandra L Brase469 apps

96%

Hoang X Ngo445 apps

99%

Robert B Beatty419 apps

97%

Quana M Grainger374 apps

98%

Hoan H Tran359 apps

97%

Jessica L Eley301 apps

98%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

Venable LLP25,393 apps

87%

CANON U.S.A. INC. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION24,789 apps

86%

Rossi, Kimms & McDowell LLP6,401 apps

87%

PATENT DOCKET CLERK4,319 apps

92%

Canon C/O Carter, DeLuca & Farrell LLP3,121 apps

87%

OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P.579 apps

95%

Abel Schillinger, LLP103 apps

92%

CANON NANOTECHNOLOGIES, INC.52 apps

96%

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Rejection fingerprint

What gets rejected, by statute

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What works

Allowance by strategy used

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Interviews

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Applications

Every application in the record

Application	Title	Filed	Status	Rejections	RCEs	To 1st action
19882813	METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ENCODING OR DECODING VOLUMETRIC DATA INTO …	2026-10-06	Pending	0	0	n/a
19882043	METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA TRANSMISSION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK	2026-10-02	Pending	0	0	n/a
19882073	METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA TRANSMISSION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK	2026-10-02	Pending	0	0	n/a
15937869	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15357420	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15447275	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15393629	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15299649	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15948954	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15362223	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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