Law firm or agent

Reed Smith LLP (Pittsburgh)

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268 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

50%

−26 pts vs the USPTO range 44% to 56%

Rejections before allowance

1.7

+0.1 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

20.8 mo

+2.2 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

24%

−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

G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes33 apps

F16L 11 apps

A61B Diagnosis, surgery, identification11 apps

B21D 8 apps

B25C 8 apps

B65G 8 apps

Art units

373111 apps

372510 apps

36728 apps

21537 apps

36796 apps

36516 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Aaron N Strange10 apps

100%

Joseph A Dillon Jr6 apps

67%

Jimmy T Nguyen5 apps

80%

Robert R Niquette4 apps

Nam V Nguyen4 apps

100%

Eyamindae Chossan Jallow4 apps

75%

Susan Emily Fernandez3 apps

33%

Sean D Andrish3 apps

33%

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

KUREHA CORPORATION16 apps

69%

PRAGMATUS AV LLC12 apps

83%

PNEUTOOLS, INC.11 apps

73%

IPEG, INC.8 apps

63%

ITI SCOTLAND LIMITED8 apps

VAMCO INTERNATIONAL, INC.7 apps

71%

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY6 apps

33%

SANEXEN ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES INC.6 apps

67%

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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
19548439	SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR APPLICATION AWARE SEQUENCE GENERA…	2026-02-24	Allowed	0	0	4.1 mo
19311526	APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TAPPING A VALVE OF A HOST PIPE LINED WITH A LINER	2025-08-27	Pending	0	0	n/a
19034014	Systems and Methods for an Enterprise Computing Platform	2025-01-22	Pending	1	0	14.9 mo
15751212	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15485490	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15688811	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15512711	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15945051	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15685956	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15633238	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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