[WIPSTUDY #15] US PTAB_Non-Provisional Patent Application Appeal

In this #15 issue,
we're going to review the statistics of the non-provisional (regular) patent application appeal cases.

. US PTAB (Patent Trial and Appeal Board): Non-provisional (regular) patent application

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There're total 16,619 appeal decision cases from 2018 to present.
(* Search result extracted from 01/01/2018 to 04/02/2020)

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[1st Applicant's Nationality]

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It's the chart of the 1st applicant's nationality of the 16,619 appeal cases filed in the US during the corresponding period. US is ranked in the 1st with 10,101 cases followed by Germany(999 cases), Japan (882 cases), the Netherlands (463 cases).

[The 1st Applicant]

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Shows that top 3 applicants of the US appeal- IBM with 614 cases, Ford Global Tech with 332 cases and Philips NV with 298 cases, which means IT, motors and home electrical appliances are listed on the top.


[Original IPC (subclass)]

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Let's take a look at the top ranked technologies. The enlarged shot of the chart shows the top 3 technologies which are G06Q (16%), G06F (13%) and A61K (4.7%)

* Classification Code
G06Q : Data processing systems or methods, specially adapted for administrative,                    commercial, financial, managerial, supervisory or forecasting purposes.
G06F : Electric digital data processing which are computer systems based on specific               computational models
A61K : Preparations for medical, dental, or toilet purposes.


[Kind Code]

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 ◀ Among the total 16,619 appeal decision cases,
Filed is 11,132 cases.
Grant is 5,394 cases.
Which means that 32.4% patents have been granted after being reversed and remanded by the appeal after final office action.













Here let's find out on the patents filed by Taiwanese applicants.
We've learned that 72 patents was filed from Taiwanese nationality from the chart '1st Applicant Nationality' above.

🔻 List of 72 patents of Taiwanese nationality

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[1st Applicant]

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The chart shows the 1st applicant of the 72 TW patents filed appeal trial in the US.
Taiwan Semiconductor MFG has the most with 27 patents followed by Mediatek Inc. and Vesera Technologies with 4 cases.

Let's take a look at one case of Taiwan Semiconductor in detail below.

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• Appeal no. 2018004743, Ex Parte Lin et al
• Application type : Regular (same as non-provisional patent application)
• Document type : Decision
• Decision date : Feb. 12, 2019
• Patent Application no. 15/459192
• Patent Grant no. 10377013
• Applicant : Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.,Ltd

⏬ Decision document of the appeal #2018004743, Ex Parte Lin et al, which stated 'REVERSED'.

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