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ALIGN / SHAY GLENN LLP

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571 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

96%

+20 pts vs the USPTO range 94% to 97%

Rejections before allowance

2.0

+0.4 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

18.4 mo

−0.2 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

40%

+13 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

A61C 397 apps

G16H Healthcare informatics52 apps

A61B Diagnosis, surgery, identification52 apps

G06T Image data processing or generation26 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing13 apps

B29C Shaping or joining of plastics7 apps

Art units

3772196 apps

OPAP34 apps

373224 apps

362618 apps

261217 apps

261614 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central38 apps

n/a

Matthew M Nelson30 apps

96%

Yogesh P Patel28 apps

92%

Ralph A Lewis28 apps

100%

Heidi Marie Eide24 apps

95%

Nicholas D Lucchesi24 apps

100%

Neal Sereboff15 apps

73%

Edward John Moran15 apps

93%

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

Align Technology, Inc.552 apps

96%

ALIGN TECHNOLOY, INC.1 apps

100%

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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

Application	Title	Filed	Status	Rejections	RCEs	To 1st action
19698823	IMAGE-BASED LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS	2026-06-04	Pending	0	0	n/a
19578810	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT PLANNING	2026-03-25	Pending	0	0	n/a
19561501	BIOSENSOR PERFORMANCE INDICATOR FOR INTRAORAL APPLIANCES	2026-03-09	Pending	0	0	n/a
15995988	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15839784	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15982550	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15490536	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15535155	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15123081	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15689960	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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