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BENESCH, FRIEDLANDER, COPLAN & ARONOFF LLP

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1,690 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

68%

−7 pts vs the USPTO range 66% to 71%

Rejections before allowance

1.8

+0.2 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

18.8 mo

+0.2 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

33%

+5 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

A61K Medical preparations94 apps

A61B Diagnosis, surgery, identification93 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing62 apps

G01N Investigating or analysing materials51 apps

A61F 48 apps

B01D 47 apps

Art units

OPAP99 apps

177127 apps

176126 apps

363524 apps

363322 apps

378322 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central96 apps

n/a

Patrick J Maestri17 apps

88%

William R Carpenter12 apps

75%

Brian A McCaig11 apps

100%

Jacqueline Woznicki10 apps

40%

Rodney P Swartz10 apps

100%

James C Goloboy9 apps

63%

Nicole Erin Kinsey White9 apps

89%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

Locus Solutions IPCo, LLC104 apps

45%

Northwestern University78 apps

93%

Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., LTD.35 apps

63%

Battelle Memorial Institute33 apps

77%

The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois33 apps

85%

LeafFilter North, LLC33 apps

86%

Ohio State Innovation Foundation32 apps

85%

Duke University31 apps

96%

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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
19622408	DRAINAGE SYSTEM FOR ROTATING CRANKCASE VENTILATION SYSTEMS	2026-09-09	Pending	0	0	n/a
19612589	CUTTING DEVICE ASSEMBLY	2026-08-05	Pending	0	0	n/a
19612743	INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP FOR A NEURAL INTERFACE	2026-08-05	Pending	0	0	n/a
15893053	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15748381	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15123181	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15636246	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15660929	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15704498	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15692957	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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