Company or institution

SoftBank Corp.

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255 applicationsfiled 2007 to 2026

Allowance rate

88%

+13 pts vs the USPTO range 83% to 92%

Rejections before allowance

1.3

−0.3 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

16.7 mo

−1.9 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

22%

−5 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Trend

Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

H04W Wireless communication networks67 apps

H04B Transmission64 apps

H04L Transmission of digital information16 apps

H01Q 15 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing11 apps

G06N Computing arrangements based on specific computational models9 apps

Art units

OPAP31 apps

264611 apps

264310 apps

24699 apps

28457 apps

26426 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central31 apps

n/a

Khalid W Shaheed6 apps

100%

Dady Chery4 apps

100%

Jai M Lee3 apps

67%

Mewale A Ambaye3 apps

100%

Gary Lafontant3 apps

67%

Kenneth T Lam3 apps

100%

Kevin D Mew2 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

William H. Bollman90 apps

92%

Westborough IP Group, LLC64 apps

96%

SoftBank Corp.36 apps

86%

Imaizumi IP Law, PLLC19 apps

50%

Xsensus13 apps

83%

Rimon PC - MWE6 apps

n/a

Banner & Witcoff, LTD4 apps

100%

Casimir Jones, S.C.4 apps

100%

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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
19628527	CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD	2026-09-25	Pending	0	0	n/a
19626462	INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCE…	2026-09-22	Pending	0	0	n/a
19620053	COMMUNICATION SYSTEM	2026-08-31	Pending	0	0	n/a
15477945	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15816486	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15499003	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15334202	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15786987	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15358002	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15579002	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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