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SMITH BALUCH LLP

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667 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

81%

+5 pts vs the USPTO range 77% to 84%

Rejections before allowance

1.5

level with the USPTO

Months to first action

15.1 mo

−3.5 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

G06F Electric digital data processing59 apps

G02C 43 apps

F21V 31 apps

F21S 29 apps

G02B Optical elements23 apps

G01N Investigating or analysing materials22 apps

Art units

287560 apps

OPAP55 apps

287240 apps

176725 apps

287119 apps

287715 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central57 apps

n/a

Bao Q Truong14 apps

92%

Andrew J Oyer12 apps

100%

Tsion M Tumebo11 apps

67%

Peter F Godenschwager11 apps

82%

Robert E Tallman10 apps

90%

Christopher E Dunay8 apps

86%

Alan Wong6 apps

80%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

e-Vision Smart Optics, Inc.77 apps

94%

DMF, Inc.64 apps

88%

BenevolentAI Technology Limited33 apps

43%

Automaton, Inc.32 apps

95%

FRS Group, LLC27 apps

88%

Indigo Technologies, Inc.22 apps

79%

Agnetix, Inc.21 apps

84%

Neurala, Inc.18 apps

80%

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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
19881366	Pulsed Valve for Molecular Resonance Rotational (MRR) Spectroscopy	2026-10-01	Pending	0	0	n/a
19880809	Immersion Tank for Signal Integrity Measurements	2026-09-30	Pending	0	0	n/a
19880840	BOILING ENHANCEMENT COATING HAVING LESS THERMAL EXPANSION MISMATCH AND METHODS FOR …	2026-09-30	Pending	0	0	n/a
15174353	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15987986	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15748819	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15174555	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15538440	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15222308	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15918330	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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