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Oblon/Sony

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476 applicationsfiled 2014 to 2026

Allowance rate

81%

+5 pts vs the USPTO range 77% to 84%

Rejections before allowance

2.2

+0.6 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

12.8 mo

−5.8 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

44%

+17 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

H04N Pictorial communication, television210 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing30 apps

G06T Image data processing or generation28 apps

H04L Transmission of digital information26 apps

G03B 20 apps

G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes20 apps

Art units

242527 apps

269720 apps

242220 apps

288219 apps

248717 apps

242414 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Pinkal R Chokshi8 apps

88%

Michael Lee7 apps

71%

Marly S.b. Camargo7 apps

100%

Annan Q Shang6 apps

67%

Alexander Q Huerta5 apps

80%

Gevell V Selby5 apps

100%

Sultan U. Chowdhury5 apps

100%

Nam D Pham4 apps

100%

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

SONY CORPORATION284 apps

80%

SONY GROUP CORPORATION152 apps

83%

SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION19 apps

79%

Sony Europe B.V.17 apps

75%

SONY CORPOR ATION1 apps

100%

SONY CORPORATOION1 apps

100%

SONY CORPORATON1 apps

100%

SONY CORPORTATION1 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
19460038	TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, DISPL…	2026-01-26	Pending	0	0	n/a
19338653	IMAGE DATA ENCODING AND DECODING	2025-09-24	Pending	1	0	9.9 mo
19263154	DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND METHOD	2025-07-08	Pending	0	0	n/a
15568954	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15187119	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15195626	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15396725	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15717191	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15769245	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15835064	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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