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DAVID A. LANE, JR.

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15,331 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

81%

+5 pts vs the USPTO range 80% to 81%

Rejections before allowance

1.9

+0.3 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

20.6 mo

+2.0 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

46%

+19 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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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

A61B Diagnosis, surgery, identification7,500 apps

A61F 2,095 apps

C07D Heterocyclic compounds1,191 apps

A61K Medical preparations1,052 apps

A61M Devices for introducing media into the body527 apps

A61L 352 apps

Art units

37311,869 apps

37751,456 apps

3771851 apps

3773609 apps

3774590 apps

3794493 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Nathaniel C Chukwurah413 apps

98%

Scott A Smith246 apps

100%

Michelle Lopez189 apps

99%

Sameh Raafat Boles154 apps

97%

Christopher J Beccia140 apps

98%

Robert Franklin Long131 apps

98%

Docket Central121 apps

Andrew Yang113 apps

99%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.2,174 apps

94%

Cilag GmbH International1,614 apps

95%

Ethicon LLC1,510 apps

92%

ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC.1,394 apps

91%

Janssen Pharmaceutica NV1,152 apps

69%

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.954 apps

72%

BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.846 apps

88%

DEPUY IRELAND UNLIMITED COMPANY475 apps

93%

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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
19882331	A DELIVERY DEVICE FOR MEDICAL MATERIAL, A CONNECTION SYSTEM, AND AN ASSEMBLY METHOD…	2026-10-05	Pending	0	0	n/a
19881187	MATERIALS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CELLULAR REDIFFERENTIATION AND EXPANSION	2026-10-01	Pending	0	0	n/a
19880190	Organic Compounds	2026-09-28	Pending	0	0	n/a
15701547	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15936003	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15566157	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15202608	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15891938	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15443287	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15591318	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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