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BRAKE HUGHES BELLERMANN LLP

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7,229 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

87%

+11 pts vs the USPTO range 86% to 87%

Rejections before allowance

2.0

+0.4 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

18.8 mo

+0.2 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

40%

+13 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 processing2,515 apps

H04L Transmission of digital information498 apps

H04N Pictorial communication, television479 apps

A61F 436 apps

H04W Wireless communication networks408 apps

G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes349 apps

Art units

OPAP222 apps

3735216 apps

3791201 apps

2161117 apps

2163105 apps

215999 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central227 apps

John P Lacyk72 apps

99%

Christine Hopkins Matthews53 apps

96%

Thaddeus B Cox50 apps

87%

Samuel G Gilbert48 apps

98%

Sunita Reddy38 apps

97%

Hung T Vy36 apps

97%

Carrie R Dorna30 apps

96%

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

GOOGLE LLC3,276 apps

92%

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.587 apps

92%

SAP SE420 apps

79%

NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY328 apps

63%

Atieva, Inc.295 apps

95%

BMC Software, Inc.287 apps

96%

NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY258 apps

85%

Black & Decker Inc.164 apps

94%

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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
19883524	PERFORMING ACTION ON AN AUDIO SIGNAL BASED ON FACIAL MOVEMENT	2026-10-08	Pending	0	0	n/a
19882510	LOCALIZING AUDIO SOURCES IN CAPTURED AUDIO	2026-10-05	Pending	0	0	n/a
19882152	MONITORING FOR LTM	2026-10-02	Pending	0	0	n/a
15359144	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15845521	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15507949	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15541372	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15170684	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15822354	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15120068	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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