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OBLON, MCCLELLAND, MAIER & NEUSTADT, L.L.P.

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112,456 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

76%

level with the USPTO range 76% to 76%

Rejections before allowance

1.5

−0.1 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

18.5 mo

−0.1 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

25%

−2 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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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

G06F Electric digital data processing5,635 apps

H04N Pictorial communication, television4,576 apps

A61K Medical preparations3,303 apps

G03G 3,143 apps

H04L Transmission of digital information2,675 apps

A61B Diagnosis, surgery, identification2,543 apps

Art units

OPAP2,836 apps

28522,153 apps

28271,265 apps

28841,251 apps

37451,247 apps

28241,074 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central2,839 apps

10%

Sean Phillip Kayes277 apps

97%

Elizabeth A Bolden188 apps

75%

Vit W Miska163 apps

99%

Hoa Van Le158 apps

76%

Christopher D Rodee151 apps

70%

Lauren Robinson Colgan149 apps

66%

Mark A Chapman146 apps

97%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA10,359 apps

66%

RICOH COMPANY, LTD.6,417 apps

84%

TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA4,312 apps

79%

SONY CORPORATION4,152 apps

81%

KIOXIA CORPORATION3,250 apps

95%

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION2,930 apps

79%

KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS2,361 apps

92%

COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES1,937 apps

86%

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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
19883067	DEVICE FOR CHARGING A STORAGE BATTERY AND METHOD FOR REGULATING A CHARGING CURRENT	2026-10-07	Pending	0	0	n/a
19882897	ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONVERTER, AND AS…	2026-10-07	Pending	0	0	n/a
19882850	DEVICE AND METHOD	2026-10-07	Pending	0	0	n/a
15566903	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15940227	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15337705	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15706922	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15881858	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15437864	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15245367	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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