Company or institution

Lam Research Corporation

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3,884 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

84%

+9 pts vs the USPTO range 83% to 86%

Rejections before allowance

1.6

level with the USPTO

Months to first action

20.3 mo

+1.7 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

30%

+3 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

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Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

H10P 2,028 apps

H01J 717 apps

C23C 349 apps

H10W 159 apps

C25D 98 apps

G03F 52 apps

Art units

1716648 apps

1713375 apps

OPAP294 apps

1718266 apps

2844132 apps

1714108 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central296 apps

n/a

Rudy Zervigon102 apps

94%

Yuechuan Yu57 apps

89%

Roberts P Culbert52 apps

100%

Tiffany Z Nuckols51 apps

66%

Keath T Chen50 apps

64%

Srinivas Sathiraju50 apps

100%

Benjamin R Kendall49 apps

51%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

WEAVER AUSTIN VILLENEUVE & SAMPSON - LAMR/NOVL1,200 apps

83%

Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C. (Lam)915 apps

87%

PENILLA IP, APC and Lam Research Corp.560 apps

84%

Beyer Law Group LLP/Lam448 apps

75%

Polygon IP, LLP / Lam Research197 apps

100%

SLW / Lam Research Corporation175 apps

88%

Alleman Hall LLP/LRC103 apps

89%

IPSG, P.C.59 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
19883101	ISONITRILE INHIBITORS IN ALD	2026-10-07	Pending	0	0	n/a
19882651	OXIDIZING PLASMA-FREE SILICON OXIDE DEPOSITION	2026-10-06	Pending	0	0	n/a
19881913	CONTROL OF SPATIAL DENSITY OF PLASMA WITHIN PROCESS STATIONS BY RETURN PATH REACTAN…	2026-10-02	Pending	0	0	n/a
15375720	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15464228	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15594171	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15760824	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15851820	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15755986	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15639391	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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