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IBM CORPORATION - PATENTS+ TEAM

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12,048 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

84%

+9 pts vs the USPTO range 83% to 85%

Rejections before allowance

1.8

+0.2 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

19.9 mo

+1.3 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

42%

+15 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

G06F Electric digital data processing5,059 apps

H04L Transmission of digital information1,357 apps

G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes908 apps

G06N Computing arrangements based on specific computational models779 apps

H10D 539 apps

H10W 282 apps

Art units

2191187 apps

2113142 apps

2196139 apps

2192129 apps

2114120 apps

3624116 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central113 apps

n/a

Alan S Chen29 apps

100%

Qing Chen25 apps

100%

Joshua P Lottich25 apps

92%

Gregory Aaron Kessler24 apps

95%

Chameli Das24 apps

100%

Hung D Le23 apps

100%

Mounir S Amer20 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

International Business Machines Corporation11,843 apps

84%

Software AG43 apps

100%

HashiCorp27 apps

100%

DataStax, Inc.16 apps

100%

Software AG USA, Inc.15 apps

100%

StreamSets, Inc.10 apps

100%

The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York5 apps

100%

International Business Machine Corporation4 apps

67%

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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
19678467	CREATING OBJECTS THROUGH PHOTOSENSITVE RESIN	2026-05-15	Pending	0	0	n/a
19645370	MANAGING CANARY FILES IN A FILESYSTEM	2026-04-13	Pending	0	0	n/a
19230888	GENERATING AND UTILIZING PERFORATIONS TO IMPROVE DECISION MAKING	2025-06-06	Pending	0	0	n/a
15264820	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15771912	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15677619	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15266837	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15131814	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15828300	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15944619	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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