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6,779 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

71%

−5 pts vs the USPTO range 70% to 72%

Rejections before allowance

1.6

level with the USPTO

Months to first action

19.1 mo

+0.5 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

27%

level with 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

A47L 696 apps

A61K Medical preparations358 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing346 apps

G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes251 apps

G01N Investigating or analysing materials220 apps

H04L Transmission of digital information207 apps

Art units

3723497 apps

OPAP276 apps

177395 apps

367186 apps

373279 apps

363368 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central288 apps

n/a

David A Redding96 apps

97%

Dung H Bui93 apps

96%

Bryan R Muller73 apps

68%

Dung V Nguyen58 apps

95%

Andrew Alan Horton44 apps

100%

Shantese L McDonald40 apps

98%

Henry Y Hong25 apps

88%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.794 apps

93%

McMaster University176 apps

63%

UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK120 apps

55%

BAUER HOCKEY LLC109 apps

81%

STEMCELL TECHNOLOGIES CANADA INC.81 apps

81%

Evertz Microsystems Ltd.77 apps

93%

D2L Corporation74 apps

88%

University of Saskatchewan74 apps

71%

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Rejection fingerprint

What gets rejected, by statute

Share of parsed office actions raising each ground; blue is the USPTO.

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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
19883376	MULTI-FUNCTIONAL PANEL SYSTEM	2026-10-08	Pending	0	0	n/a
19881881	PROGNOSTIC METHOD FOR ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA (AML) AND NON-CANONICAL AML REGENERATI…	2026-10-02	Pending	0	0	n/a
19628945	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF TRISO-FUELLED PEBBLES	2026-09-28	Pending	0	0	n/a
15380658	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15911738	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15875047	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15271788	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15706358	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15824496	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15961072	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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