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INACTIVE - IBM Corporation – Patent Center

2,632 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2021

Allowance rate
92%
+16 pts vs the USPTO range 91% to 93%
Rejections before allowance
1.5
−0.1 vs the USPTO
Months to first action
15.4 mo
−3.2 vs the USPTO
Needed an RCE
32%
+4 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Compared with the office

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Trend

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

G06F Electric digital data processing1,602 apps
H04L Transmission of digital information323 apps
G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes93 apps
G11B 61 apps
G11C Static stores52 apps
G06N Computing arrangements based on specific computational models51 apps

Art units

215667 apps
213256 apps
213853 apps
216149 apps
211349 apps
211446 apps

Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

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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

ApplicationTitleFiledStatusRejectionsRCEsTo 1st action
17169957DETERMINING IN-PLANE BOW OF A TAPE DRIVE HEAD MODULE2021-02-08Allowed003.4 mo
17105036DATA QUALITY-BASED CONFIDENCE COMPUTATIONS FOR KPIS DERIVED FROM TIME-SERIES DATA2020-11-25Allowed206.3 mo
17020911ELECTRONIC DEVICE SMART COVER WITH DISPLAY CAPABILITY2020-09-15Allowed215.9 mo
15505316Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing2012-01-10Allowed1012.0 mo
15596803Composition and method for controlled release2015-02-11Abandoned4123.0 mo
15473807Distributed ledger transaction verification2018-03-12Allowed3020.0 mo
15902737Thermal management of battery assemblies2021-04-13Pending2117.0 mo
15992888Machine learning model for anomaly detection2012-05-14Allowed1014.0 mo
15363482Wireless power transfer coil arrangement2015-06-15Abandoned4125.0 mo
15515572Catalyst for selective hydrogenation2018-07-16Allowed3022.0 mo
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