Company or institution

Desktop Metal, Inc.

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256 applicationsfiled 2016 to 2025

Allowance rate

41%

−34 pts vs the USPTO range 35% to 48%

Rejections before allowance

1.7

level with the USPTO

Months to first action

20.9 mo

+2.3 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

26%

−2 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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

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Trend

Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

B22F 108 apps

B29C Shaping or joining of plastics67 apps

B33Y Additive manufacturing40 apps

B22D 8 apps

G05B Control or regulating systems in general6 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing6 apps

Art units

173343 apps

173537 apps

174324 apps

174217 apps

173414 apps

178412 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Scott R Kastler16 apps

63%

Keith D Walker14 apps

Nahida Sultana8 apps

75%

Mary Lynn F Theisen8 apps

88%

Ricardo D Morales6 apps

83%

Docket Central6 apps

n/a

Rebecca Janssen6 apps

33%

James M Sanders5 apps

20%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

Ethos Legal PC111 apps

50%

WIGGIN AND DANA LLP75 apps

VIERING, JENTSCHURA & PARTNER mbB - sonstige21 apps

47%

Oak Law, PLLC17 apps

94%

LANDO & ANASTASI, LLP13 apps

100%

WOLF GREENFIELD & SACKS, P.C.13 apps

92%

Bookoff McAndrews, PLLC4 apps

Hansen IP Law PLLC1 apps

100%

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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
19218386	CONTROLLING MENISCUS POSITION FOR MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC METAL MANUFACTURING	2025-05-26	Pending	0	0	n/a
19120241	TITANIUM DIBORIDE AND TUNGSTEN COPPER TERMINALS FOR JETTING OF LIQUID ALUMINUM	2025-04-11	Pending	0	0	n/a
19107617	LOW-COST HIGH-PURITY VACUUM PUMPS AND SYSTEMS	2025-02-28	Pending	0	0	n/a
15865444	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15261129	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15690247	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15988430	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15415177	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15982586	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15426468	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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