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CANON U.S.A. INC. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIVISION

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26,011 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

86%

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

Rejections before allowance

1.4

−0.2 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

16.7 mo

−1.9 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

35%

+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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Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

H04N Pictorial communication, television5,679 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing3,093 apps

G03G 3,018 apps

B41J 1,912 apps

G06T Image data processing or generation1,153 apps

G02B Optical elements1,138 apps

Art units

28522,351 apps

28531,549 apps

OPAP1,293 apps

2872878 apps

2672603 apps

2675589 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central1,334 apps

n/a

Sophia S Chen159 apps

97%

Hoang X Ngo130 apps

100%

Allen H Nguyen110 apps

98%

Sandra L Brase108 apps

98%

Tommy D Lee106 apps

98%

Robert B Beatty103 apps

96%

Haris Sabah102 apps

84%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA24,789 apps

86%

Canon U.S.A., Inc.317 apps

81%

Canon Virginia, Inc.63 apps

76%

MILESTONE SYSTEMS A/S35 apps

91%

The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc.27 apps

83%

CANON EUROPA N.V.27 apps

56%

CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION21 apps

100%

Canon USA Inc.19 apps

95%

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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
19882813	METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ENCODING OR DECODING VOLUMETRIC DATA INTO …	2026-10-06	Pending	0	0	n/a
19882043	METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA TRANSMISSION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK	2026-10-02	Pending	0	0	n/a
19882073	METHOD FOR MANAGING DATA TRANSMISSION IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK	2026-10-02	Pending	0	0	n/a
15476214	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15619670	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15308668	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15750705	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15291169	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15336301	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15365098	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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