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198 applicationsfiled 2010 to 2026

Allowance rate

95%

+19 pts vs the USPTO range 90% to 97%

Rejections before allowance

1.0

−0.6 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

18.1 mo

−0.5 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

17%

−11 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

H04R 138 apps

A61B Diagnosis, surgery, identification17 apps

G10L Speech analysis, synthesis, recognition12 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing10 apps

H04L Transmission of digital information6 apps

H04B Transmission3 apps

Art units

OPAP30 apps

269125 apps

269223 apps

269421 apps

265316 apps

265112 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central32 apps

n/a

Suhan Ni15 apps

100%

Ryan C Robinson11 apps

100%

Phylesha Larvinia Dabney11 apps

90%

Mark L Fischer10 apps

100%

Amir Hossein Etesam10 apps

100%

George C Monikang6 apps

100%

Andrew L Sniezek5 apps

100%

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

Starkey Laboratories, Inc.196 apps

95%

CITIBANK, N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT1 apps

Starkey Hearing Technologies1 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
19552427	EAR-WEARABLE DEVICE WITH MACHINE-LEARNING-ASSISTED DIRECTIONALITY	2026-02-27	Pending	0	0	n/a
19548110	SYSTEM FOR HOWLING PREVENTION IN EAR-WEARABLE DEVICE	2026-02-24	Pending	0	0	n/a
19543007	IN-CANAL HEARING DEVICE INCLUDING SEALED VIBRATORY TRANSDUCER	2026-02-18	Pending	0	0	n/a
15335759	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15547136	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15340491	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15993678	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15169491	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15585702	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15574515	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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