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Waters Corporation

69 applicationsfiled 2008 to 2017

Allowance rate
97%
+22 pts vs the USPTO range 90% to 99%
Rejections before allowance
1.2
−0.4 vs the USPTO
Months to first action
10.5 mo
−8.1 vs the USPTO
Needed an RCE
10%
−17 pts vs the USPTO

Timeline

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

H01J 54 apps
G01N Investigating or analysing materials12 apps
G16C 2 apps
C23C 1 apps

Art units

288164 apps
16312 apps
28782 apps
17971 apps

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Applications

Every application in the record

ApplicationTitleFiledStatusRejectionsRCEsTo 1st action
15410327Time Shift for Improved Ion Mobility Spectrometry or Separation Digitisation2017-01-19Allowed101.4 mo
15318321System and Method for Enhancing Charge-State Determination in Electrospray Mass Spe…2016-12-12Allowed003.1 mo
15224989Setting Ion Detector Gain Using Ion Area2016-08-01Allowed001.7 mo
15881636Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing2012-01-10Allowed1012.0 mo
15266849Composition and method for controlled release2015-02-11Abandoned4123.0 mo
15460906Distributed ledger transaction verification2018-03-12Allowed3020.0 mo
15830256Thermal management of battery assemblies2021-04-13Pending2117.0 mo
15851769Machine learning model for anomaly detection2012-05-14Allowed1014.0 mo
15216474Wireless power transfer coil arrangement2015-06-15Abandoned4125.0 mo
15455047Catalyst for selective hydrogenation2018-07-16Allowed3022.0 mo
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