Company or institution

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

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47,088 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

79%

+4 pts vs the USPTO range 79% to 80%

Rejections before allowance

2.1

+0.5 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

21.3 mo

+2.7 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

51%

+24 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

Applications by filing year: drag across the years to study a period

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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

G06F Electric digital data processing23,341 apps

H04L Transmission of digital information6,190 apps

G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes3,553 apps

H04N Pictorial communication, television2,095 apps

G06T Image data processing or generation1,705 apps

G06N Computing arrangements based on specific computational models1,529 apps

Art units

OPAP754 apps

2191640 apps

2194555 apps

2192553 apps

2161517 apps

2457499 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central784 apps

Laurie Anne Ries95 apps

95%

Etienne Pierre Leroux94 apps

91%

Andy Ho85 apps

96%

Kim T Nguyen80 apps

86%

Tadesse Hailu79 apps

77%

Maikhanh Nguyen74 apps

90%

David Phantana Angkool72 apps

90%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

MICROSOFT CORPORATION35,211 apps

82%

Newport IP, LLC1,178 apps

78%

Ray Quinney & Nebeker - Microsoft1,069 apps

81%

Alleman Hall LLP/MS1,009 apps

93%

WORKMAN NYDEGGER/MICROSOFT966 apps

70%

Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.876 apps

63%

Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP-Microsoft790 apps

93%

LEE & HAYES, P.C.689 apps

32%

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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
19881256	INTELLIGENT USER INPUT EVENT ROUTING FOR CLOUD-CONNECTED GAMING ACCESSORY	2026-10-01	Pending	0	0	n/a
19880975	AUTOMATED PERFORMANCE TEST PLAN CONFIGURATION BASED ON API PEAK LOAD PREDICTION	2026-09-30	Pending	0	0	n/a
19627571	ANTIRESONANT HOLLOW CORE FIBER WITHOUT ROTATIONAL SYMMETRY	2026-09-24	Pending	0	0	n/a
15230393	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15617494	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15226425	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15286916	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15765583	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15685786	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15894756	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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