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Becton, Dickinson and Company /

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2,263 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

93%

+18 pts vs the USPTO range 92% to 94%

Rejections before allowance

2.3

+0.7 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

21.7 mo

+3.1 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

46%

+19 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

A61M Devices for introducing media into the body752 apps

A61B Diagnosis, surgery, identification384 apps

G01N Investigating or analysing materials356 apps

A61J 152 apps

A61F 124 apps

A61L 78 apps

Art units

3783516 apps

3791160 apps

OPAP156 apps

3763116 apps

287789 apps

377180 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central157 apps

n/a

William R Carpenter35 apps

96%

Suzette Jaime J Gherbi33 apps

100%

Shefali Dilip Patel23 apps

100%

Roy M Punnoose22 apps

100%

Terry K Cecil20 apps

100%

Benjamin Jacob Klein19 apps

100%

Bryon P Gehman19 apps

100%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

Becton, Dickinson and Company1,416 apps

92%

Becton Dickinson France270 apps

97%

Tepha, Inc.120 apps

94%

CRISI Medical Systems, Inc.61 apps

98%

C.R. Bard, Inc.57 apps

96%

Becton Dickinson France S.A.S.47 apps

96%

Velano Vascular, Inc.47 apps

94%

Davol Inc.46 apps

87%

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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
19883021	Valve Stopper for a Multi-Chamber Medical Injection Device	2026-10-07	Pending	0	0	n/a
19628016	Wearable Injector and Injection Device Including This Wearable Injector	2026-09-25	Pending	0	0	n/a
19627408	Anti-Pricking Syringe Needle Shield and Method of Manufacturing Thereof	2026-09-24	Pending	0	0	n/a
15327414	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15780079	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15494891	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15905701	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15231567	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15631091	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15370375	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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