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Houtteman Law, LLC

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1,500 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

81%

+6 pts vs the USPTO range 79% to 83%

Rejections before allowance

1.0

−0.6 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

20.2 mo

+1.6 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

11%

−16 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

H10K 199 apps

G09G Control arrangements for displays158 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing139 apps

G02F 78 apps

H10D 76 apps

H01Q 66 apps

Art units

OPAP69 apps

287162 apps

284546 apps

287540 apps

262834 apps

289732 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central64 apps

Tom V Sheng11 apps

100%

Sanjiv D Patel11 apps

90%

Adam J Snyder10 apps

100%

Benny T Lee8 apps

100%

Duane N Taylor Jr8 apps

100%

Caleb E Henry7 apps

100%

Stephen T Reed7 apps

100%

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.939 apps

94%

Tsinghua University71 apps

69%

LITE-ON ELECTRONICS (GUANGZHOU) LIMITED12 apps

100%

UNIVERSAL SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIAL (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.10 apps

100%

ZTE CORPORATION9 apps

67%

TRINA SOLAR CO., LTD.8 apps

60%

Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.7 apps

100%

AZUREWAVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.6 apps

33%

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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
19627114	RENDERING METHOD, TILE ALLOCATION APPARATUS, GRAPHICS PROCESSING DEVICE, AND COMPUT…	2026-09-23	Pending	0	0	n/a
19626993	OPTICAL SYSTEM AND DISPLAY APPARATUS	2026-09-23	Pending	0	0	n/a
19623109	DISPLAY ASSEMBLY, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR, AND DISPLAY DEVICE	2026-09-10	Pending	0	0	n/a
15735979	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15474546	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15266261	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15466934	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15102198	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15943455	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15238809	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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