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Patterson + Sheridan LLP - Materialise N.V.

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91 applicationsfiled 2009 to 2025

Allowance rate

75%

level with the USPTO range 65% to 83%

Rejections before allowance

1.7

level with the USPTO

Months to first action

20.5 mo

+1.9 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

23%

−4 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

A61B Diagnosis, surgery, identification23 apps

B29C Shaping or joining of plastics14 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing9 apps

A61F 9 apps

G06T Image data processing or generation5 apps

B33Y Additive manufacturing5 apps

Art units

377520 apps

21174 apps

28724 apps

17424 apps

37743 apps

21273 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Sameh Raafat Boles6 apps

33%

Matthew James Lawson4 apps

75%

Maria N Von Buhr3 apps

100%

Techane Gergiso3 apps

100%

John C Hong2 apps

50%

Anuradha Ramana2 apps

50%

Suba Ganesan2 apps

50%

Olga V Tcherkasskaya2 apps

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

MATERIALISE N.V.80 apps

74%

RSPRINT N.V.3 apps

67%

FLUIDDA NV1 apps

100%

Frederik VERSTREKEN1 apps

100%

HOYA CORP.1 apps

100%

IDENTIFY3D, INC.1 apps

100%

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN1 apps

100%

Materialise Motion N.V.1 apps

n/a

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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
19216565	POPULATION BASED EYEWEAR FITTING	2025-05-22	Pending	0	0	n/a
19189841	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY FOR DIGITAL MANUFACTURING	2025-04-25	Pending	0	0	n/a
18941297	METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DESIGNING FOOTWEAR	2024-11-08	Pending	2	0	7.0 mo
15415028	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15396567	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15965954	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15388570	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15491935	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15282091	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15830547	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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