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EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION

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3,454 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

86%

+11 pts vs the USPTO range 85% to 88%

Rejections before allowance

1.5

level with the USPTO

Months to first action

21.7 mo

+3.1 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

36%

+9 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

A61F 2,470 apps

A61B Diagnosis, surgery, identification750 apps

A61M Devices for introducing media into the body126 apps

A61L 29 apps

C12Q Measuring or testing processes involving enzymes or nucleic acids14 apps

G01N Investigating or analysing materials13 apps

Art units

37741,049 apps

3771841 apps

OPAP397 apps

3738187 apps

3731168 apps

3791110 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central414 apps

n/a

Suzette Jaime J Gherbi123 apps

97%

Seema Mathew97 apps

91%

Ann M Hu67 apps

83%

Jacqueline Woznicki61 apps

69%

Suba Ganesan61 apps

96%

Leslie Ann Lopez60 apps

94%

Matthew Wayne Schall58 apps

95%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation2,726 apps

85%

Edwards Lifesciences CardiAQ LLC143 apps

94%

VALTECH CARDIO, LTD.94 apps

99%

Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd.84 apps

90%

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.45 apps

100%

JC Medical, Inc.32 apps

100%

Mitral Valve Technologies Sarl30 apps

100%

DEXCOM, INC.28 apps

64%

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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
19705233	ADJUSTABLE ANNULOPLASTY RING AND DELIVERY SYSTEM	2026-06-11	Pending	0	0	n/a
19702641	REMOVABLE VOLUME INDICATOR FOR SYRINGE	2026-06-09	Pending	0	0	n/a
19701547	DOCKING STATION FOR PROSTHETIC IMPLANT	2026-06-08	Pending	0	0	n/a
15723261	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15662600	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15233148	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15607021	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15972978	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15815219	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15503094	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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