Patent analytics/Companies

Company or institution

MICREL, INC.

67 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2016

Allowance rate

66%

−10 pts vs the USPTO range 54% to 76%

Rejections before allowance

0.7

−0.9 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

18.6 mo

level with the USPTO

Needed an RCE

9%

−18 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

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

H02M 15 apps

H10D 12 apps

H04L Transmission of digital information7 apps

G05F 6 apps

H03L 5 apps

H05B 3 apps

Art units

283819 apps

28428 apps

28924 apps

28213 apps

28173 apps

28363 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Gustavo A Rosario Benitez3 apps

33%

Barbara Summons2 apps

100%

Gary A Nash2 apps

100%

Abul Kalam2 apps

0%

Patrick O Neill2 apps

100%

Cassandra F Cox2 apps

100%

Wilner Jean Baptiste2 apps

100%

Trinh Q Dang2 apps

100%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

VAN PELT, YI & JAMES LLP36 apps

97%

PATENT LAW GROUP16 apps

25%

Brundidge & Stanger, P.C./SLG4 apps

25%

BEVER HOFFMAN & HARMS, LLP3 apps

0%

Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC3 apps

100%

ISHIMARU & ASSOCIATES LLP2 apps

0%

LESTER BIRNBAUM2 apps

50%

DORSEY & WHITNEY LLP - Minneapolis1 apps

0%

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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
15353465	DMOS TRANSISTOR WITH TRENCH SCHOTTKY DIODE	2016-11-16	Allowed	1	0	4.1 mo
14818022	CURRENT SENSING USING A METAL-ON-PASSIVATION LAYER ON AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DIE	2015-08-04	Allowed	1	0	19.1 mo
14686368	PLL FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER WITH MULTI-CURVE VCO IMPLEMENTING CLOSED LOOP CURVE SEARC…	2015-04-14	Allowed	1	0	1.1 mo
15803105	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15587419	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15256917	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15628221	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15948510	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15525674	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15381988	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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