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Smith & Nephew, Inc. / Dickinson Wright

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229 applicationsfiled 2007 to 2026

Allowance rate

87%

+12 pts vs the USPTO range 82% to 91%

Rejections before allowance

2.1

+0.5 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

21.1 mo

+2.5 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

45%

+18 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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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, identification130 apps

A61F 36 apps

A61M Devices for introducing media into the body19 apps

A61N 10 apps

G16H Healthcare informatics8 apps

G06T Image data processing or generation8 apps

Art units

377127 apps

378323 apps

373122 apps

OPAP17 apps

377514 apps

376312 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central18 apps

n/a

Kami A Bosworth9 apps

78%

Jocelin C Tanner9 apps

89%

Jonathan Wade Miles6 apps

100%

Richard G Louis5 apps

100%

Deanna K Hall4 apps

100%

Andrew Yang4 apps

75%

Bradley James Osinski4 apps

100%

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

Smith & Nephew, Inc.78 apps

88%

Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited65 apps

80%

Tusker Medical, Inc.65 apps

89%

Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG7 apps

100%

S&N ORION PRIME, S.A.5 apps

100%

ACCLARENT, INC.2 apps

100%

ArthroCare Corporation1 apps

100%

IP2IPO INNOVATIONS LIMITED1 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
19666436	METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TUNNEL PLANNING AND NAVIGATION	2026-05-04	Pending	0	0	n/a
19666467	INFERENCE OF CARTILAGE SEGMENTATION IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANS	2026-05-04	Pending	0	0	n/a
19648286	ADJUSTABLE AND COMBINATION SURGICAL AIMER, DRILL GUIDE AND BULLET	2026-04-15	Pending	0	0	n/a
15409254	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15866972	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15573798	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15582850	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15816970	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15927954	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15764309	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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