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The office
The whole office, in one view
Every application filed since 2006: 7,648,559 applications, 15,621 examiners, 13,103,541 office actions read. What the office allows, how long it takes, what it rejects on, and how its tech centers differ.
Allowance rate
75%
of decided applications, all years
Months to first action
18.6 mo
Rejections before allowance
1.6
Needed an RCE
27%
of applications
Volume and outcomes
Applications by filing year
Allowed in green, abandoned in red, pending in grey. The most recent years are still filling in.
Pendency
Months to the first office action, by filing year
Rejections
Share of office actions raising each statute, by filing year
From the office actions read so far; the eligibility line (§ 101) is where the Alice decision of 2014 shows.
Tech centers
Allowance rate by tech center
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Domains on the move
Where filings are shifting
Technology domains whose share of new filings grew or shrank most over the last two years, against the four years before.
Gaining
Domains by filing year