While analyzing the monetization potential of Cisco’s portfolio we found that ~4500 assignees were given rejections based on Cisco’s patents. But how many of these rejections were actually 102 rejections (where identified prior art matches each and every element of a patent application’s claim)?
A total of 1373 assignees received a 102 type rejection based on Cisco’s patents. The table below has a list of the top 10 assignees that received max rejections.
| Assignee | Number of 102 Rejections | Applications blocked by 102 rejection |
| IBM | 272 | 223 |
| Microsoft | 191 | 164 |
| Ericsson | 189 | 134 |
| Qualcomm | 173 | 134 |
| Huawei | 168 | 137 |
| Samsung | 156 | 116 |
| Avago | 138 | 100 |
| HP | 122 | 104 |
| Fujitsu | 104 | 90 |
| Intel | 94 | 71 |
Which assignees dropped their applications right after a 102 rejection based on Cisco’s patents?
We took help from our proprietary tool BOS to get access to this data. It shows that a total number of 331 assignees abandoned their applications right after receiving a 102 rejection based on Cisco’s patents. The list of top 10 among such assignees is below:
| Assignee | Applications abandoned after 102 rejection |
| Huawei | 22 |
| ETRI | 21 |
| Ericsson | 13 |
| Qualcomm | 13 |
| Fujitsu | 13 |
| HP | 13 |
| Toshiba | 8 |
| IBM | 9 |
| Microsoft | 9 |
| NEC Corp | 9 |
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