Company or institution

NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION

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423 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2012

Allowance rate

32%

−44 pts vs the USPTO range 27% to 36%

Rejections before allowance

0.8

−0.7 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

20.5 mo

+1.9 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

14%

−13 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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Trend

Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

H10D 67 apps

H10W 61 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing51 apps

G11C Static stores29 apps

H10P 20 apps

H03K 18 apps

Art units

281627 apps

282617 apps

282416 apps

281116 apps

281914 apps

211713 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Anh K Phung6 apps

100%

Jamie C Niesz4 apps

25%

Ermias T Woldegeorgis4 apps

Alexander O Williams4 apps

50%

Kevin V Quinto4 apps

100%

Jose R Diaz3 apps

67%

Anh Quan Tra3 apps

33%

Viet Q Nguyen3 apps

67%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

SGPatents166 apps

55%

MCGINN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW GROUP, PLLC91 apps

NIXON & VANDERHYE, PC64 apps

SUGHRUE MION, PLLC32 apps

13%

OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P.22 apps

64%

FOLEY & LARDNER LLP19 apps

BUCHANAN, INGERSOLL & ROONEY PC14 apps

64%

MILES & STOCKBRIDGE PC12 apps

42%

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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
13474182	PLL CIRCUIT AND OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS	2012-05-17	Abandoned	2	0	2.6 mo
12861038	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE	2010-08-23	Abandoned	2	0	14.8 mo
12856923	SYNCHRONIZATION TIMING DETECTING APPARATUS, RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND SYNCHRONIZATIO…	2010-08-16	Abandoned	1	0	22.0 mo
15573149	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15405249	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15525486	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15439761	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15193255	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15993145	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15114430	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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