Company or institution

FIRST SOLAR, INC.

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650 applicationsfiled 2007 to 2026

Allowance rate

52%

−23 pts vs the USPTO range 48% to 56%

Rejections before allowance

1.9

+0.3 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

19.8 mo

+1.2 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

29%

+2 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Compared with the office

Against every applicant before the USPTO

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Trend

Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

H10F 374 apps

C23C 86 apps

H02S 43 apps

H10P 34 apps

H02J Circuit arrangements for supplying electric power13 apps

F24S 11 apps

Art units

175852 apps

175751 apps

175543 apps

171636 apps

172134 apps

172634 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Golam Mowla22 apps

68%

Keath T Chen17 apps

35%

Lindsey A Buck16 apps

60%

Bach T Dinh14 apps

92%

Eli S Mekhlin13 apps

54%

Tae-Sik Kang13 apps

58%

Ryan Smith Cannon11 apps

18%

Christina Chern11 apps

45%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

MacMillan, Sobanski and Todd, LLC - FIRST SOLAR251 apps

52%

MacMillan, Sobanski & Todd LLC - First Solar (BR)242 apps

44%

Dority & Manning, P.A. and Primestar Solar Inc.72 apps

65%

Blank Rome LLP19 apps

68%

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY19 apps

37%

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (BO)14 apps

86%

SHUMAKER, LOOP & KENDRICK, LLP13 apps

38%

Thomas J. D'Amico12 apps

75%

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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
19881601	Photovoltaic Devices with Semiconductor Contact Layers	2026-10-01	Pending	0	0	n/a
19607301	TANDEM PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES AND METHODS FOR TESTING AND USE OF PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS	2026-07-17	Pending	0	0	n/a
19652562	DOPED PHOTOVOLTAIC SEMICONDUCTOR LAYERS AND METHODS OF MAKING	2026-04-20	Pending	0	0	n/a
15720107	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15872714	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15149197	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15916075	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15317632	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15193628	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15327434	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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