Philips has filed 46264 patent applications at USPTO so far (excluding Design and PCT applications). Out of these 33308 have been granted leading to the grant rate of 76.7%.
The table below provides key stats of Philips’s patent prosecution at the USPTO:
Even the Abandonment/Rejection of Philips is slightly higher than the average rate of GAUs of Philips. Below is a comparison of the average grant rate of Philips, its Art Units, and the USPTO.
Allowance Rate of top 10 GAUs of Philips’s Interest
Four out of the top ten GAUs of Philips have an allowance rate less than the average grant index of Philips and one GAU out of these has a drastically low allowance rate. Among the rest seven, two GAUs have an allowance rate higher than 90%.
| GAU | Total Applications | Allowance Rate |
| 2871 | 2044 | 93.98% |
| 2875 | 1262 | 86.31% |
| 2844 | 1093 | 92.02% |
| 2629 | 1024 | 68.65% |
| 2879 | 853 | 74.88% |
| 2884 | 775 | 88.87% |
| 3793 | 710 | 73.93% |
| 2627 | 701 | 28.10% |
| 2821 | 654 | 79.82% |
| 3737 | 585 | 78.97% |