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Illumina, Inc.

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714 applicationsfiled 2007 to 2026

Allowance rate

92%

+17 pts vs the USPTO range 90% to 94%

Rejections before allowance

1.5

level with the USPTO

Months to first action

18.4 mo

−0.2 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

24%

−3 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

C12Q Measuring or testing processes involving enzymes or nucleic acids224 apps

B01L 106 apps

C12N Microorganisms or enzymes85 apps

G01N Investigating or analysing materials82 apps

G16B Bioinformatics52 apps

B01J 44 apps

Art units

1637131 apps

179857 apps

163449 apps

163944 apps

OPAP36 apps

179733 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central36 apps

n/a

Kenneth R Horlick31 apps

100%

Cynthia B Wilder23 apps

87%

Kaijiang Zhang20 apps

95%

Jezia Riley18 apps

94%

Jerry Lin17 apps

100%

David C Thomas16 apps

100%

Brian J Sines15 apps

93%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

ILLUMINA, INC.431 apps

93%

ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LIMITED142 apps

94%

Omniome, Inc.30 apps

100%

Edico Genome Corporation28 apps

100%

Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.10 apps

90%

ADVANCED LIQUID LOGIC, INC.9 apps

78%

Apton Biosystems, Inc.8 apps

100%

SOLEXA LIMITED8 apps

88%

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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
19701963	SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT RECEPTION	2026-06-09	Pending	0	0	n/a
19677948	CONTROLLING INTERSAMPLE ANALYTE VARIABILITY IN COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL MATRICES	2026-05-14	Pending	0	0	n/a
19557818	Contiguity Preserving Transposition	2026-03-05	Pending	0	0	n/a
15347103	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15971294	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15217375	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15194854	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15917430	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15482090	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15527554	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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