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Company or institution

International Business Machines Corporation

105,195 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate
87%
+12 pts vs the USPTO range 87% to 87%
Rejections before allowance
1.8
+0.2 vs the USPTO
Months to first action
19.0 mo
+0.4 vs the USPTO
Needed an RCE
35%
+8 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Trend

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

G06F Electric digital data processing47,630 apps
H04L Transmission of digital information11,110 apps
G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes7,631 apps
H10D 6,221 apps
G06N Computing arrangements based on specific computational models4,353 apps
H10W 2,715 apps

Art units

21141,468 apps
21131,417 apps
21911,378 apps
21831,346 apps
21961,221 apps
28511,190 apps

Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

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What gets rejected, by statute

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What works

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Interviews

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Applications

Every application in the record

ApplicationTitleFiledStatusRejectionsRCEsTo 1st action
19602854VERTICALLY-RESOLVED METROLOGY WITH ASYMMETRY-SENSITIVE MEASUREMENT2026-06-30Pending00n/a
19701822AUGMENTED REALITY SPEECH-TO-TEXT CAPTIONING2026-06-09Pending00n/a
19697667COMMUNICATION INTERFACE OF A SECURE INTERFACE CONTROL2026-06-04Pending00n/a
15992528Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing2012-01-10Allowed1012.0 mo
15723071Composition and method for controlled release2015-02-11Abandoned4123.0 mo
15342167Distributed ledger transaction verification2018-03-12Allowed3020.0 mo
15850742Thermal management of battery assemblies2021-04-13Pending2117.0 mo
15454844Machine learning model for anomaly detection2012-05-14Allowed1014.0 mo
15770892Wireless power transfer coil arrangement2015-06-15Abandoned4125.0 mo
15363858Catalyst for selective hydrogenation2018-07-16Allowed3022.0 mo
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