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Company or institution

Western Digital Technologies, Inc.

5,627 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate
96%
+20 pts vs the USPTO range 95% to 96%
Rejections before allowance
1.3
−0.3 vs the USPTO
Months to first action
14.6 mo
−4.0 vs the USPTO
Needed an RCE
24%
−4 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Trend

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

G06F Electric digital data processing2,118 apps
G11B 2,083 apps
G11C Static stores348 apps
H04L Transmission of digital information131 apps
H10W 95 apps
H03M 94 apps

Art units

2688993 apps
2627452 apps
2686204 apps
2112190 apps
2827164 apps
2132164 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
19615270VCSEL2026-08-14Pending00n/a
19681783Servo Write Head For Writing Servo Patterns Having Opposite-Polarity Bars2026-05-19Pending00n/a
19679523COMPOSITE COOLING DISK FOR CONTINUOUS TRANSIENT COOLING FOR SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP2026-05-15Pending00n/a
15913146Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing2012-01-10Allowed1012.0 mo
15627477Composition and method for controlled release2015-02-11Abandoned4123.0 mo
15420913Distributed ledger transaction verification2018-03-12Allowed3020.0 mo
15733380Thermal management of battery assemblies2021-04-13Pending2117.0 mo
15100340Machine learning model for anomaly detection2012-05-14Allowed1014.0 mo
15317552Wireless power transfer coil arrangement2015-06-15Abandoned4125.0 mo
15671747Catalyst for selective hydrogenation2018-07-16Allowed3022.0 mo
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