Samsung has filed 156563 patent applications at the USPTO so far (Excluding Design and PCT applications). Out of these 106538 have been granted leading to the grant rate of 74.7%
Key stats of Samsung patent prosecution at the USPTO:
A comparison of the average grant rate of Samsung, its Art Units, and the USPTO
Allowance Rate of Top 20 Art Units of Samsung’s interest
Three out of the top ten GAUs of Samsung have an allowance rate less than the average grant index of Samsung. LG’s prosecution stats at the USPTO has a completely different story. LG’s grant rate is 11% higher than Samsung’s and 9.6% higher than the average grant rate of its GAUs.
Top 20 GAUs of Samsung
| GAU | Definition | Total Applications | Allowance Rate |
| 2871 | Optics | 3892 | 78.46% |
| 3600 | Transportation, Construction, Electronic Commerce, Agriculture, National Security, and License and Review | 2702 | 0% |
| 2629 | Selective Visual Display Systems | 2493 | 57.76% |
| 2818 | Semiconductors/Memory | 2254 | 90.72% |
| 2627 | Selective Visual Display Systems | 2120 | 68.34% |
| 2824 | Semiconductors/Memory | 2053 | 93.47% |
| 2879 | Optics | 2034 | 76.87% |
| 2617 | Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory | 2023 | 57.72% |
| 2852 | Printing/Measuring and Testing | 1935 | 84.10% |
| 2827 | Semiconductors/Memory | 1855 | 94.18% |
| 2872 | Optics | 1528 | 80.82% |
| 2622 | Selective Visual Display Systems | 1424 | 67.61% |
| 2811 | Semiconductors/Memory | 1417 | 72.37% |
| 2624 | Selective Visual Display Systems | 1412 | 74.18% |
| 2835 | Electrical Circuits and Systems | 1409 | 71.79% |
| 2822 | Semiconductors/Memory | 1341 | 85.62% |
| 2611 | Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory | 1336 | 73.69% |
| 2826 | Semiconductors/Memory | 1314 | 86.29% |
| 2816 | Semiconductors/Memory | 1305 | 85.83% |
| 2812 | Semiconductors/Memory | 1303 | 83.09% |