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Williams Mullen

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617 applicationsfiled 2006 to 2026

Allowance rate

60%

−16 pts vs the USPTO range 55% to 64%

Rejections before allowance

1.5

−0.1 vs the USPTO

Months to first action

16.9 mo

−1.7 vs the USPTO

Needed an RCE

23%

−5 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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Allowance by filing year

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Domains

Where the applications fall

CPC subclasses

C12N Microorganisms or enzymes48 apps

A61K Medical preparations41 apps

H01M Batteries and fuel cells26 apps

G06F Electric digital data processing24 apps

C07K Peptides20 apps

G06Q Data processing for administrative, commercial, financial purposes19 apps

Art units

166226 apps

OPAP19 apps

364114 apps

361213 apps

165513 apps

166312 apps

Examiners met

The examiners seen most, and how it went with each

Docket Central19 apps

n/a

Gloria M Hale8 apps

88%

Jeffrey S Parkin7 apps

71%

Addison D Ault7 apps

100%

Steven J Ganey6 apps

100%

Russell G Fiebig6 apps

33%

Carlos E Garcia6 apps

100%

Sanjay Cattungal6 apps

100%

Bars show the share of decided applications that were allowed.

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Who they file for

Clients with the most applications

SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.18 apps

78%

Nomad Bioscience GmbH17 apps

50%

DAVINCI LOCK LLC15 apps

93%

TWO BLADES FOUNDATION15 apps

67%

Livent USA Corp.13 apps

89%

Lucerno Dynamics, LLC12 apps

83%

Green Extraction Technologies11 apps

45%

ARCA TECHNOLOGIES S.R.L.10 apps

100%

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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
19621373	POST-NATAL ABSORBENT HYGIENE SLIP	2026-09-04	Pending	0	0	n/a
19606574	COPOLYMERS AND LIPID COMPOSITIONS FOR LIPID NANOPARTICLES	2026-07-15	Pending	0	0	n/a
19523564	Dental Curing Light	2026-03-26	Pending	0	0	n/a
15574910	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15241087	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15940349	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15839273	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15446007	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15236565	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15479086	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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