Company or institution

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

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50,009 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

99%

+23 pts vs the USPTO range 98% to 99%

Rejections before allowance

1.5

level with the USPTO

Months to first action

14.0 mo

−4.6 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

24%

−3 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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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

H10D 16,678 apps

H10W 10,418 apps

H10P 4,405 apps

H10B 3,069 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing2,122 apps

G11C Static stores2,057 apps

Art units

OPAP5,591 apps

28182,691 apps

28982,429 apps

28122,254 apps

28932,036 apps

28972,027 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central6,134 apps

n/a

Tong-Ho Kim366 apps

100%

Changhyun Yi352 apps

100%

Christine A Enad331 apps

100%

Cheung Lee295 apps

100%

Tu Tu V Ho286 apps

100%

Dao H Nguyen280 apps

100%

Adam S Bowen269 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

Haynes and Boone, LLP (24061)6,897 apps

98%

Intellectual Property Division4,041 apps

100%

JCIPRNET3,878 apps

100%

Eschweiler & Potashnik, LLC (TSMC)3,507 apps

99%

SLATER MATSIL, LLP/TSMC3,422 apps

90%

Hauptman Ham, LLP (TSMC)3,414 apps

98%

BIRCH STEWART KOLASCH & BIRCH, LLP2,815 apps

99%

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.2,738 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
19716208	CAPACITOR INTEGRATED PASSIVE DEVICE WITH COMMON GROUNDED THROUGH-SUBSTRATE-VIA AND …	2026-06-23	Pending	0	0	n/a
19716266	SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURE AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME	2026-06-23	Pending	0	0	n/a
19716464	EMBEDDED LENS STRUCTURES AND THE METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME	2026-06-23	Pending	0	0	n/a
15441196	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15465590	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15237758	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15331701	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15908706	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15866898	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15733336	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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