Law firm or agent

Nields, Lemack & Frame, LLC

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1,512 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

72%

−3 pts vs the USPTO range 70% to 74%

Rejections before allowance

1.6

level with the USPTO

Months to first action

20.0 mo

+1.4 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

31%

+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

G01C 149 apps

B01D 122 apps

G01N Investigating or analysing materials59 apps

G01S Radio direction-finding, radar, sonar52 apps

A61K Medical preparations49 apps

C09B 42 apps

Art units

364574 apps

374738 apps

177638 apps

285535 apps

177834 apps

177733 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Helene G Klemanski30 apps

77%

Docket Central28 apps

Luke D Ratcliffe26 apps

96%

Sow Fun Hon21 apps

43%

Hai H Huynh19 apps

79%

Yaritza Guadalupe15 apps

93%

Krishnan S Menon14 apps

79%

Ernest G Therkorn14 apps

64%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

EMD MILLIPORE CORPORATION271 apps

86%

TOPCON Corporation262 apps

92%

NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA230 apps

62%

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation86 apps

65%

Ethanol Boosting Systems, LLC32 apps

72%

Merck Patent GmbH24 apps

86%

Massachusetts Institute Of Technology20 apps

95%

Innovation Hammer LLC18 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
19625334	SPUTTERING TARGET, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND FILM	2026-09-17	Pending	0	0	n/a
19624801	TARGET AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR	2026-09-16	Pending	0	0	n/a
19617958	METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR ESTIMATING OF FRICTION COEFFICIENT	2026-08-24	Pending	0	0	n/a
15218163	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15211071	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15292716	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15631817	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15704368	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15961942	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15608643	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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