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11,902 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

73%

−2 pts vs the USPTO range 72% to 74%

Rejections before allowance

1.7

+0.1 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

18.3 mo

−0.3 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

31%

+4 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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Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

G06F Electric digital data processing1,318 apps

G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes1,240 apps

A61K Medical preparations563 apps

H04L Transmission of digital information333 apps

C07K Peptides285 apps

G01N Investigating or analysing materials237 apps

Art units

OPAP310 apps

3682185 apps

2875163 apps

2851162 apps

1711131 apps

3622122 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central319 apps

n/a

Azam A Ansari74 apps

70%

Vincent M Cao55 apps

93%

Gautam Ubale37 apps

81%

Aurora M Fontainhas36 apps

74%

Kimberly Ballard32 apps

29%

Mark Halpern32 apps

94%

Jon McClelland Lockard30 apps

93%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

Groupon, Inc.792 apps

81%

University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated487 apps

92%

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.254 apps

99%

Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.249 apps

91%

Bytedance Inc.225 apps

62%

Synopsys, Inc.212 apps

97%

E.G.O. Elektro-Geraetebau GmbH194 apps

66%

Feit Electric Company, Inc.167 apps

93%

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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
19882351	LEARNED DYNAMIC CAMERA SYSTEM CONTROL FOR HUMAN-POSE ESTIMATION	2026-10-05	Pending	0	0	n/a
19881824	METHOD FOR MODIFYING A TISSUE PAPER MACHINE, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A MACHINE	2026-10-02	Pending	0	0	n/a
19628719	ISO 1940 G2.5 GRADE BALANCING FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE MOTOR	2026-09-28	Pending	0	0	n/a
15201730	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15342416	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15279784	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15972813	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15913405	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15728919	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15179842	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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