Never Give Up? (The 15 Applications with Most Non-final Rejections)

I am dealing with jet lag after 2 weeks in Russia (Putin says hi), plus there is a lot going on with the IPO annual meeting in town, so this week’s post falls into the category of quick fun-fact.

Using the Bigpatentdata patent retrieval tool I pulled the title, assignee, and status of each application that has had at least 13 nonfinal rejections. Interestingly, the two leaders are still in active prosecution, so who knows how high they can take the record!

AppNum	Number Nonfinal Actions	Title	Assignee	Status
9841149	16	Method and system for integrating internet advertising with television commercials	Comcast	Final Rejection Mailed
10581218	15	Shaving head with skin stretching member	Koninklijke Philips	Response to nonfinal entered
10297270	14	Device for Monitoring Movement of Shipped Goods	Garmin	Patented (2012)
10958945	13	Wide Bandgap Field Effect Transistors With Source Connected Field Plates	Cree	Patented (2017)
10001580	13	Product selling and pricing system and method	Qualcomm	Abandoned (2015)
10025155	13	Antenna Control System	CommScope	Patented (2013)
9999378	13	System and Method Employing Capacity/Demand Management In Prepared Food Service Industry	Goal Assist Corporation	Nonfinal Action Mailed
10267483	13	Three dimensional integrated circuits	Yakimishu	Abandoned (2009)
10264990	13	Absorbent article	None	Patented (2015)
9523990	13	Method of Manufacture and Identification of Semiconductor Chip Marked for Identification With . . .	None	Abandoned (2014)
10400017	13	Relating to Binding Proteins For Recognition Of DNA	U.K Research & Innovation	Patented (2015)
10514009	13	Memory device comprising a non-phase-changing amorphous . . .	Sony	Patented (2017)
10728233	13	Methods and Apparatus to Facilitate Drying Golf Gloves	DJ Nicholson Enterprises	Patented (2014)
10990593	13	Automatic address validation	PayPal	Allowed