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ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC. / Dormant

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399 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2016

Allowance rate

81%

+6 pts vs the USPTO range 77% to 85%

Rejections before allowance

2.2

+0.7 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

25.1 mo

+6.5 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

40%

+13 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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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

B23K 244 apps

B05B 26 apps

F16L 10 apps

A61F 8 apps

H02K 7 apps

H01R 7 apps

Art units

3742194 apps

375229 apps

282722 apps

371510 apps

37478 apps

28347 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Brian W Jennison55 apps

78%

Ayub A Maye22 apps

86%

Thien S Tran17 apps

76%

Mark H Paschall17 apps

100%

Viet Q Nguyen14 apps

100%

Sang Yeop Paik14 apps

57%

Geoffrey S Evans11 apps

91%

Joseph W Iskra9 apps

78%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.319 apps

80%

HOBART BROTHERS COMPANY21 apps

81%

CARLISLE FLUID TECHNOLOGIES, INC.13 apps

92%

CITIBANK, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT11 apps

100%

IIIINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.4 apps

100%

CARLISLE FLUID TECHNOLOGIES RANSBURG JAPAN KK2 apps

100%

Illinois Tools Works Inc.2 apps

100%

CARLISLE FLUID TECHNOLOGIES GERMANY GMBH1 apps

100%

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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
15044899	POSITIONING ATTACHMENT FOR A WELDING TORCH	2016-02-16	Abandoned	2	0	7.9 mo
15010985	WELDER GENERATOR ENGINE SPEED CONTROL	2016-01-29	Allowed	1	0	3.4 mo
14930038	DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ANALYZING SPATTER GENERATING EVENTS	2015-11-02	Allowed	2	1	7.5 mo
15346670	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15440240	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15175028	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15542479	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15320342	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15409747	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15462014	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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