Company or institution

Mentor Graphics Corporation

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530 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2020

Allowance rate

77%

+2 pts vs the USPTO range 73% to 81%

Rejections before allowance

1.6

level with the USPTO

Months to first action

16.4 mo

−2.2 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

34%

+7 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Compared with the office

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Trend

Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

G06F Electric digital data processing345 apps

G01R 82 apps

G03F 39 apps

H04L Transmission of digital information18 apps

G05B Control or regulating systems in general11 apps

G11C Static stores7 apps

Art units

2851231 apps

282560 apps

211742 apps

212826 apps

211118 apps

211218 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Suresh Memula28 apps

82%

Mohammed Alam22 apps

91%

Naum B Levin20 apps

85%

Leigh M Garbowski20 apps

80%

Phallaka Kik18 apps

78%

Paul Dinh17 apps

82%

Cynthia H Britt17 apps

94%

Suchin Parihar17 apps

71%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

MENTOR GRAPHICS321 apps

71%

MENTOR GRAPHICS (KS)123 apps

85%

MENTOR GRAPHICS (BW)29 apps

90%

INACTIVE - IBM CORPORATION14 apps

100%

INACTIVE - POU IPLAW8 apps

100%

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION8 apps

100%

BANNER & WITCOFF, LTD.5 apps

60%

PLUMSEA LAW GROUP, LLC5 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
16982299	FLEXIBLE ISOMETRIC DECOMPRESSOR ARCHITECTURE FOR TEST COMPRESSION	2020-09-18	Allowed	1	0	5.3 mo
17007670	DIAGNOSIS RESOLUTION PREDICTION	2020-08-31	Allowed	0	0	5.6 mo
17007135	OPTICAL PROXIMITY CORRECTION MODEL VERIFICATION	2020-08-31	Allowed	1	0	5.4 mo
15484177	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15274203	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15992169	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15570200	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15640921	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15656574	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15366045	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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