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How many of the 48 filing documents that name Pokémon can be found with the SEC's own full-text search

48 Filings 1 January 2015..3 November 2026

FiledOur test of a public search tool against downloaded filings. Filed.

What this is

How many of the 48 filing documents that name Pokémon can be found with the SEC's own full-text search: 12. The other 36 encode the accented é in a way the search misses.

How it’s built

  1. Each document's raw text was checked for how it spells Pokémon: plain, with a literal accent, or with an encoded accent.
  2. The SEC's full-text search was then run for each filer, and its results compared with the documents found by the sweep.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

The search returns exactly the 12 documents that spell the name without an accent, and every Funko and Build-A-Bear mention falls among the 36 it misses.

Where it comes from

Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:

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  • Hit documents: 48
  • Fts visible ascii: 12
  • Fts invisible: 36
  • Visible: 25%
  • Invisible: 75%
  • By filer key: [FTS-visible, hit documents]
  1. 12 of 48 hit documents visible to EDGAR full-text search (25.0%)
  2. 36 invisible (75.0%)
  3. Funko 0/10 and Build-A-Bear 0/10 visible

Where it’s used