Topic

Wound dressing Steady

843 applications whose title mentions it. Its share of new filings over the last two years is -13% below the four years before.

Allowance rate

62%

−14 pts vs the USPTO 751 decided

Months to first action

21.0 mo

+2.4 vs the USPTO

Applications

843.0

in the record

Allowed

464.0

287 abandoned

Filings by year

How often the topic was filed

The most recent years are still filling in.

Where it is examined

Domains and art units

CPC subclasses

A61F492 apps

A61L180 apps

A61M83 apps

A61K33 apps

A61B21 apps

A61N7 apps

Art units

3781181 apps

3786160 apps

377296 apps

376165 apps

161140 apps

161528 apps

Examiners

Who examines it, and how it fares with each

Kim M Lewis87 apps

87%

Caitlin Ann Carreiro49 apps

52%

Ilya Y Treyger30 apps

77%

Docket Central29 apps

n/a

Jessica R Arble27 apps

81%

Susan Shan Su24 apps

83%

Ophelia Althea Hawthorne18 apps

82%

Andrew Jun-Wai Mok18 apps

92%

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Who files it

Companies and institutions

Smith & Nephew, Inc.126 apps

85%

Solventum Intellectual Properties Company33 apps

89%

KCI USA, INC.32 apps

81%

CONVATEC TECHNOLOGIES INC.28 apps

79%

ConvaTec Limited26 apps

86%

PAUL HARTMANN AG25 apps

53%

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Who represents them

Law firms and agents

Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP134 apps

85%

KINETIC CONCEPTS, INC.69 apps

73%

Convatec Technologies Inc.27 apps

78%

TAFT STETTINIUS HOLLISTER LLP27 apps

87%

KCI Licensing - Foley25 apps

64%

3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY19 apps

58%

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Applications

Recent applications on this topic

Application	Title	Filed	Status	Rejections	RCEs	To 1st action
19882160	METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING THE CONFORMABILITY OF A DRESSING TO A WOUND BED	2026-10-02	Pending	0	0	n/a
19624894	WOUND CARE FORMULATION AND WOUND DRESSING FOR PATCH-BASED AND GEL-BASED FORMULATION	2026-09-16	Pending	0	0	n/a
19611570	FILM DRESSING FOR WOUND TREATMENT	2026-07-31	Pending	0	0	n/a
15847012	Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing	2012-01-10	Allowed	1	0	12.0 mo
15342438	Composition and method for controlled release	2015-02-11	Abandoned	4	1	23.0 mo
15747956	Distributed ledger transaction verification	2018-03-12	Allowed	3	0	20.0 mo
15191073	Thermal management of battery assemblies	2021-04-13	Pending	2	1	17.0 mo
15908761	Machine learning model for anomaly detection	2012-05-14	Allowed	1	0	14.0 mo
15293596	Wireless power transfer coil arrangement	2015-06-15	Abandoned	4	1	25.0 mo
15791968	Catalyst for selective hydrogenation	2018-07-16	Allowed	3	0	22.0 mo

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