LG has filed 65293 patent applications at USPTO at an average grant rate of 86.79. It has 5196 pending US patent applications. We analyzed these using our FIT (File Impediment Tracker) Tool.
The FIT tool helps in-house counsels save the IP budget. It finds patents applications increasing prosecution costs due to long prosecution cycle, more OAs, appeals, amendments, and RCEs, and suggests remedial actions and strategies.
Impediment Status/Prosecution Health of LG Pending Applications
The pending applications of LG are segregate into the below three categories:
- SOS – Facing High difficulty at USPTO
- At-Risk – Application that was running smoothly but now has started displaying high probabilities of turning into an SOS application
- On-Track – Running smooth as butter
Office Actions Statistics
57.62% of LG’s pending applications haven’t received a single office action, and their examination has yet to begin. Also, LG’s average office action rate is 1.83 office actions per patent application.
Cool Fact: Fish & Richardson has a minimum average number of office actions – 1.39.
Interview Statistics
Year-wise Distribution of LG’s Pending Patent Applications
The per-year count of pending applications has increased steadily over the last decade for LG. The dip in 2020 is because not all the applications filed in 2020 have been published yet.
LG’s average grant time is 2.86 years. 3.31% of pending applications of LG have been in prosecution for 3 or more than 3 years. You can find more about these 3.31% lot here: LG patent applications that have been in prosecution for 3 or more years
RCE Statistics
Law Firms Prosecuting Pending Applications of LG at the USPTO
The table below has details of law firms prosecuting the pending applications. You can check the top law firms that prosecuted most patents for LG here: Top 25 Law firms that prosecuted most patents for LG
| Law Firm | Number of Patents |
| Fish & Richardson Pc | 1744 |
| Lee Hong Degerman Kang & Waimey | 1025 |
| Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch Llp | 771 |
| Dentons Us Llp | 725 |
| Ked & Associates Llp | 704 |
| Lg Electronics-Finnegan | 218 |
| Duane Morris Llp | 4 |
| Park Kim & Suh Llc | 2 |
| Morgan Lewis & Bockius Llp | 1 |
| Ray Quinney & Nebeker – Microsoft | 1 |
| Patterson + Sheridan Llp | 1 |