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Setter Roche Smith & Shellenberger LLP / NetApp

94 applicationsfiled 2020 to 2026

Allowance rate
100%
+25 pts vs the USPTO range 93% to 100%
Rejections before allowance
1.1
−0.5 vs the USPTO
Months to first action
15.3 mo
−3.3 vs the USPTO
Needed an RCE
33%
+6 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

G06F Electric digital data processing82 apps
H04L Transmission of digital information9 apps
G01C 1 apps
G06N Computing arrangements based on specific computational models1 apps
G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes1 apps

Art units

OPAP11 apps
21145 apps
21134 apps
21384 apps
21814 apps
21963 apps

Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

NetApp, Inc.94 apps
100%

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Rejection fingerprint

What gets rejected, by statute

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What works

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Applications

Every application in the record

ApplicationTitleFiledStatusRejectionsRCEsTo 1st action
19708060File System Access During Runtime Of A Portable Executable Program2026-06-15Pending00n/a
19553532Managing Parity Operations Using Controller-Specific Parity Bitmaps2026-03-02Pending00n/a
19546849Stateful Application Persistency For Reclaimable Compute Instances2026-02-23Pending00n/a
15345866Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing2012-01-10Allowed1012.0 mo
15489881Composition and method for controlled release2015-02-11Abandoned4123.0 mo
15700088Distributed ledger transaction verification2018-03-12Allowed3020.0 mo
15326068Thermal management of battery assemblies2021-04-13Pending2117.0 mo
15353673Machine learning model for anomaly detection2012-05-14Allowed1014.0 mo
15772556Wireless power transfer coil arrangement2015-06-15Abandoned4125.0 mo
15693536Catalyst for selective hydrogenation2018-07-16Allowed3022.0 mo
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