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BASF Corporation (old Ciba-retired)

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589 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2016

Allowance rate

53%

−22 pts vs the USPTO range 49% to 57%

Rejections before allowance

1.4

−0.2 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

18.6 mo

level with the USPTO

Needed an RCE

20%

−8 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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Trend

Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

C08K 90 apps

A61K Medical preparations69 apps

C09B 59 apps

C07D Heterocyclic compounds49 apps

C08F 36 apps

C08G 30 apps

Art units

1796102 apps

176179 apps

176241 apps

176425 apps

176524 apps

162619 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Eisa B Elhilo32 apps

94%

Kriellion Antionette Sanders27 apps

41%

Peter A Szekely17 apps

59%

Gregory R Delcotto15 apps

80%

Bijan Ahvazi13 apps

69%

Peter D Mulcahy13 apps

38%

Venkataraman Balasubramanian11 apps

82%

Alexander C Kollias11 apps

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

BASF SE196 apps

73%

CIBA CORP.100 apps

38%

CIBA SPECIALTY CHEMICALS CORP.89 apps

39%

IGM GROUP B.V.11 apps

100%

CLAP CO., LTD.6 apps

100%

SUN CHEMICAL B.V.6 apps

100%

CIBA SPECIALTY CHEMICALS WATER TREATMENTS LIMITED4 apps

75%

POLYMERS CRC LTD.4 apps

25%

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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
15303993	Method of Producing a Polyamide	2016-10-13	Abandoned	1	0	5.0 mo
15227255	Method For Forming Cyclohexanone From Cyclohexanol	2016-08-03	Allowed	1	0	6.6 mo
14768608	SYNTHETIC ZINC HECTORITE VIA HYDROTHERMAL PREPARATION	2015-08-18	Abandoned	1	0	8.1 mo
15591715	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15819939	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15333926	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15364062	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15766306	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15828283	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15730250	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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