Company or institution

SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.

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701 applicationsfiled 2007 to 2025

Allowance rate

54%

−22 pts vs the USPTO range 50% to 58%

Rejections before allowance

1.9

+0.4 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

19.7 mo

+1.1 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

30%

+3 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

H10W 102 apps

C08G 57 apps

C08L 41 apps

H05K Printed circuits37 apps

B32B 36 apps

A61B Diagnosis, surgery, identification35 apps

Art units

176538 apps

176733 apps

178730 apps

176627 apps

172226 apps

176225 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central21 apps

n/a

Michael J Feely12 apps

75%

John S Y Chu12 apps

92%

Robert E Sellers10 apps

70%

John D Freeman8 apps

43%

Ha S Nguyen6 apps

17%

Cathy Fong Fong Lam6 apps

67%

Shane Fang6 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

BIRCH, STEWART, KOLASCH & BIRCH, LLP162 apps

43%

WHDA, LLP154 apps

44%

OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P.103 apps

46%

SMITH, GAMBRELL & RUSSELL, LLP83 apps

67%

DITTHAVONG, STEINER, & MLOTKOWSKI70 apps

60%

AMIN, TUROCY & WATSON, LLP58 apps

49%

PROMERUS, LLC34 apps

100%

THE WEBB LAW FIRM, P.C.9 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
19880917	TABLET-SHAPED EPOXY RESIN MOLDING MATERIAL, COLUMNAR TABLET, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCI…	2026-09-30	Pending	0	0	n/a
19627748	ELECTROCHROMIC SHEET, LAMINATE, LENS FOR EYEGLASSES, AND EYEGLASSES	2026-09-24	Pending	0	0	n/a
19626736	ADHESIVE TAPE	2026-09-22	Pending	0	0	n/a
15253446	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15542419	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15825756	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15631486	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15369644	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15182045	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15792413	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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