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Steven Colby

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505 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

61%

−14 pts vs the USPTO range 57% to 65%

Rejections before allowance

1.6

level with the USPTO

Months to first action

18.7 mo

level with the USPTO

Needed an RCE

16%

−11 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

G06F Electric digital data processing56 apps

G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes37 apps

G01N Investigating or analysing materials23 apps

H10P 20 apps

H04L Transmission of digital information19 apps

A61K Medical preparations18 apps

Art units

OPAP15 apps

243514 apps

265211 apps

266710 apps

28538 apps

36417 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central16 apps

n/a

Quynh H Nguyen10 apps

100%

Hosuk Song8 apps

100%

Duy M Dang7 apps

100%

Geoffrey S Evans5 apps

60%

Dae Y Kim4 apps

75%

Hung D Le4 apps

100%

Christopher A Revak4 apps

100%

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

ULTRATECH, INC.43 apps

60%

UJET, INC.19 apps

89%

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY12 apps

42%

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH), U.S. DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (DHHS), U.S. GOVERNMENT10 apps

20%

Oakbio, Inc.10 apps

33%

ACCO9 apps

44%

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.9 apps

100%

Cloudsight, Inc.8 apps

88%

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Rejection fingerprint

What gets rejected, by statute

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What works

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Interviews

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Applications

Every application in the record

Application	Title	Filed	Status	Rejections	RCEs	To 1st action
19682942	FOOD ROASTING APPARATUS	2026-05-20	Pending	0	0	n/a
19452332	CHROMA KEY COMPOSITING AND LIGHTING ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM	2026-01-18	Pending	0	0	n/a
19439836	HOLLOW-CORE FIBERS FEATURING ANTI-RESONANT ELEMENTS WITH ENGINEERED NODE THICKNESS	2026-01-05	Pending	0	0	n/a
15762417	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15359106	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15956620	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15611824	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15812628	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15731325	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15657048	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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