Company or institution

Novocure GmbH

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406 applicationsfiled 2013 to 2026

Allowance rate

90%

+14 pts vs the USPTO range 85% to 93%

Rejections before allowance

1.5

−0.1 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

22.8 mo

+4.2 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

35%

+8 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

A61N 307 apps

A61K Medical preparations32 apps

G06T Image data processing or generation23 apps

A61B Diagnosis, surgery, identification19 apps

G16H Healthcare informatics7 apps

A61M Devices for introducing media into the body4 apps

Art units

3792152 apps

OPAP70 apps

379667 apps

378313 apps

37949 apps

37917 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central72 apps

n/a

Michael William Kahelin31 apps

92%

Anh-Khoa N Dinh21 apps

100%

Mallika Dipayan Fairchild17 apps

93%

Joshua Brendon Solomon17 apps

100%

Daniel Tehrani11 apps

100%

Anant Aguilar Gupta10 apps

100%

Catherine M Voorhees8 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

Potomac Law Group PLLC164 apps

84%

MCCARTER & ENGLISH, LLP BOSTON / NOVOCURE93 apps

100%

Novocure c/o Ballard Spahr LLP79 apps

93%

DUNLAP CODDING, P.C. - Novocure GmbH63 apps

97%

BALLARD SPAHR LLP5 apps

80%

MCCARTER & ENGLISH, LLP BOSTON1 apps

n/a

TAROLLI, SUNDHEIM, COVELL & TUMMINO L.L.P.1 apps

n/a

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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
19709174	Reducing Electrosensation While Treating a Subject Using Alternating Electric Field…	2026-06-16	Pending	0	0	n/a
19708297	TUMOR TREATING FIELD TRANSDUCERS WITH PROTECTIVE BORDER, AND APPARATUSES AND METHOD…	2026-06-15	Pending	0	0	n/a
19680358	TRANSDUCER APPARATUSES WITH ELECTRODE ELEMENT SPACING TO REDUCE EDGE EFFECT IN DELI…	2026-05-18	Pending	0	0	n/a
15966742	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15934126	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15658161	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15324492	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15858313	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15395948	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15343796	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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