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Francis C. Hand, Esq.

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87 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2012

Allowance rate

70%

−5 pts vs the USPTO range 60% to 79%

Rejections before allowance

2.2

+0.6 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

22.4 mo

+3.8 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

23%

−4 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

B65D Containers for storage or transport16 apps

B01D 15 apps

B05C 4 apps

E02B 4 apps

F16M 3 apps

B01J 3 apps

Art units

37549 apps

17768 apps

36727 apps

17975 apps

17745 apps

36433 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Janine Muir Kreck6 apps

50%

Charles S Bushey6 apps

100%

David L Sorkin4 apps

75%

Frances Tischler2 apps

100%

Hargobind S Sawhney2 apps

50%

Amy Cohen Johnson2 apps

50%

Andrew Philip Bainbridge2 apps

100%

Patrick M Buechner2 apps

50%

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

SULZER MANAGEMENT AG.15 apps

100%

SULZER CHEMTECH AG12 apps

58%

ANTARES CAPITAL LP11 apps

73%

MEDMIX SWITZERLAND AG7 apps

100%

SULZER MIXPAC AG6 apps

50%

ICC TECHNOLOGIES INC.3 apps

ISI POLYETHYLENE SOLUTIONS, LLC3 apps

100%

UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION3 apps

67%

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Rejection fingerprint

What gets rejected, by statute

Share of parsed office actions raising each ground; blue is the USPTO.

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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
13353736	LEG ATTACHMENT SYSTEM	2012-01-19	Allowed	3	0	18.6 mo
13326503	Method of Mass Transfer, Structured Packing and Mass Transfer Apparatus for a Small…	2011-12-15	Allowed	1	0	21.5 mo
13199691	Cartridge piston	2011-09-07	Abandoned	0	0	18.5 mo
15695498	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15768049	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15144574	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15669308	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15184676	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15258784	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15627347	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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