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SHAWN SMITH

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440 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2020

Allowance rate

56%

−20 pts vs the USPTO range 51% to 60%

Rejections before allowance

1.7

+0.1 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

23.4 mo

+4.8 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

E21B 134 apps

G01V 80 apps

C07C 20 apps

G01N Investigating or analysing materials20 apps

C12N Microorganisms or enzymes18 apps

C10G 18 apps

Art units

367445 apps

364540 apps

367231 apps

367629 apps

177120 apps

285720 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Matthew R Buck13 apps

31%

Aaron Lloyd Lembo12 apps

42%

Daniel L Murphy12 apps

100%

Sudhakar Katakam11 apps

73%

James G Sayre10 apps

70%

Hovhannes Baghdasaryan9 apps

67%

Krystine E Breier7 apps

100%

William P Neuder6 apps

50%

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.333 apps

59%

BP EXPLORATION OPERATING COMPANY LIMITED19 apps

79%

BP OIL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED10 apps

30%

BP BIOFUELS UK LIMITED7 apps

29%

CASTROL LIMITED6 apps

67%

BP ALTERNATIVE ENERGY INTERNATIONAL LIMITED5 apps

80%

BP EUROPA SE5 apps

40%

RIO TINTO LONDON LIMITED3 apps

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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
17064678	WAVE EQUATION MIGRATION OFFSET GATHERS	2020-10-07	Allowed	1	0	17.4 mo
17036182	Systems and Methods for Colocation of High Performance Computing Operations and Hyd…	2020-09-29	Abandoned	1	0	27.3 mo
17026872	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING A SCREEN-OUT CONDITION IN AN EARTHEN FORMATION	2020-09-21	Allowed	1	0	17.9 mo
15484680	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15540884	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15319942	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15836229	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15987388	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15491917	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15290014	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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