Company or institution

General Mills, Inc.

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507 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

63%

−12 pts vs the USPTO range 59% to 68%

Rejections before allowance

2.6

+1.1 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

20.8 mo

+2.2 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

27%

level with the USPTO

Timeline

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Trend

Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

A21D 131 apps

A23L 85 apps

A21C 48 apps

A23G 40 apps

B65D Containers for storage or transport38 apps

A23C 29 apps

Art units

1793125 apps

1792101 apps

1791100 apps

OPAP26 apps

174322 apps

178915 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Lien Thuy Tran60 apps

49%

Docket Central24 apps

n/a

Katherine Deguire Leblanc24 apps

76%

Seyed Masoud Malekzadeh21 apps

90%

Felicia C Turner20 apps

38%

Viren A Thakur18 apps

19%

Subbalakshmi Prakash16 apps

63%

Chaim A Smith13 apps

75%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

General Mills, Inc.210 apps

96%

Jordan IP Law, LLC129 apps

34%

Jordan IP Law, LLC (General Mills)115 apps

17%

MCANDREWS HELD & MALLOY, LTD12 apps

100%

Arlene L. Hornilla, Attorney9 apps

78%

Arlene L. Hornilla6 apps

50%

General Mills, Inc./Kagan Binder PLLC4 apps

25%

MRG/General Mills4 apps

50%

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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
19608336	PACKAGING FILMS	2026-07-22	Pending	0	0	n/a
19608348	EXTRUDED PUFFED HIGH SOLUBLE FIBER FOOD AND HIGH TOTAL FIBER PIECES AND METHODS OF …	2026-07-22	Pending	0	0	n/a
19608405	EXTRUDED PUFFED HIGH PROTEIN AND HIGH FIBER FOOD PIECES AND METHODS OF MAKING	2026-07-22	Pending	0	0	n/a
15668713	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15969458	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15578090	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15445833	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15841396	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15200142	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15774937	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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