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Company or institution

VMware, Inc.

6,816 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate
83%
+8 pts vs the USPTO range 82% to 84%
Rejections before allowance
1.8
+0.2 vs the USPTO
Months to first action
18.9 mo
+0.3 vs the USPTO
Needed an RCE
31%
+4 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

G06F Electric digital data processing4,137 apps
H04L Transmission of digital information2,261 apps
G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes109 apps
G06N Computing arrangements based on specific computational models74 apps
H04W Wireless communication networks72 apps
G06T Image data processing or generation41 apps

Art units

2196346 apps
2195311 apps
2199228 apps
2191168 apps
2193160 apps
2454155 apps

Who represents them

Law firms and agents on their applications

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Rejection fingerprint

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

ApplicationTitleFiledStatusRejectionsRCEsTo 1st action
19652357SCALING OF LOGICAL ROUTER PODS2026-04-20Pending00n/a
19633570FAST PROVISIONING OF MACHINES USING NETWORK CLONING2026-03-30Pending00n/a
19632116DATA INTEGRITY VERIFICATION FOR NETWORK FILE SYSTEMS2026-03-27Pending00n/a
15436979Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing2012-01-10Allowed1012.0 mo
15996452Composition and method for controlled release2015-02-11Abandoned4123.0 mo
15174245Distributed ledger transaction verification2018-03-12Allowed3020.0 mo
15138067Thermal management of battery assemblies2021-04-13Pending2117.0 mo
15222417Machine learning model for anomaly detection2012-05-14Allowed1014.0 mo
15164332Wireless power transfer coil arrangement2015-06-15Abandoned4125.0 mo
15310877Catalyst for selective hydrogenation2018-07-16Allowed3022.0 mo
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