Company or institution

RICOH COMPANY, LTD.

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19,672 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

83%

+8 pts vs the USPTO range 83% to 84%

Rejections before allowance

1.5

level with the USPTO

Months to first action

17.8 mo

−0.8 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

32%

+4 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

G03G 4,756 apps

H04N Pictorial communication, television2,744 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing2,650 apps

B41J 2,225 apps

H04L Transmission of digital information824 apps

B65H 722 apps

Art units

28523,191 apps

28532,103 apps

1721563 apps

3653487 apps

2672446 apps

2675405 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central313 apps

n/a

Leslie August Nicholson III191 apps

98%

Sophia S Chen188 apps

99%

Sandra L Brase161 apps

97%

Robert B Beatty161 apps

99%

Hoan H Tran160 apps

99%

Hoang X Ngo154 apps

97%

Negussie Worku137 apps

98%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P.6,417 apps

84%

Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C.3,867 apps

84%

Xsensus2,490 apps

84%

IPUSA, P.L.L.C2,069 apps

77%

Gary J. Gershik; John P. White1,324 apps

85%

DUFT & BORNSEN, PC976 apps

89%

Blank Rome LLP501 apps

81%

Grüneberg Global IP, PLLC460 apps

62%

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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
19712682	PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING …	2026-06-18	Pending	0	0	n/a
19708880	TRANSMISSION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS	2026-06-16	Pending	0	0	n/a
19703127	PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE, ELECTRONIC DEVIC…	2026-06-10	Pending	0	0	n/a
15182963	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15824183	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15485300	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15609773	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15907919	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15372700	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15824436	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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