Company or institution

SoftBank Group Corp.

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849 applicationsfiled 2019 to 2026

Allowance rate

60%

−15 pts vs the USPTO range 36% to 80%

Rejections before allowance

1.0

−0.6 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

11.6 mo

−7.0 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

18%

−9 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

G06F Electric digital data processing284 apps

G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes109 apps

G16H Healthcare informatics69 apps

G06V Image or video recognition65 apps

G06N Computing arrangements based on specific computational models65 apps

G10L Speech analysis, synthesis, recognition44 apps

Art units

OPAP696 apps

365610 apps

36269 apps

36588 apps

36287 apps

36227 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central696 apps

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Sangeeta Bahl3 apps

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Robert T Nguyen2 apps

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Emily Marie Kraisinger2 apps

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Linda Wong2 apps

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Mohammed Yousef Abuelhawa2 apps

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Dale S Moyer2 apps

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Aaron G Cain2 apps

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Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

Xsensus616 apps

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Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (SoftBank)71 apps

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BANNER & WITCOFF, LTD.65 apps

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Rimon PC - MWE38 apps

100%

SOEI USA INC.32 apps

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PROCOPIO, CORY, HARGREAVES & SAVITCH LLP20 apps

n/a

William H. Bollman7 apps

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What gets rejected, by statute

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What works

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Interviews

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Applications

Every application in the record

Application	Title	Filed	Status	Rejections	RCEs	To 1st action
19685137	INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD	2026-05-22	Pending	0	0	n/a
19685149	INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD	2026-05-22	Pending	0	0	n/a
19653159	INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROV…	2026-04-21	Pending	0	0	n/a
15159166	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15737466	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15955760	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15818042	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15786687	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15766822	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15933658	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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