Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18829593 | Flexible Bit Quantities for Error Correction Code (ECC) Values in a Memory Environment | September 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18809965 | Recovering Missing Data in a Storage Network via Locally Decodable Redundancy Data | August 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18794144 | FRAMEWORK FOR FAILURE DETECTION, FORECASTING AND REMEDIATION COMBINING DOMAIN-SPECIFIC TELEMETRY AND CUSTOMIZED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | August 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18749944 | REDUNDANT DATA STORAGE USING INCREMENTAL ERROR DETECTION WITH NON-ZERO SEEDS | June 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18747957 | COMPLEX DEVICE FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FEATURES | June 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 9 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18747234 | DATA PROTECTION WITH TIME-VARYING IN-SITU DATA REFRESH | June 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18678285 | DATA TRANSACTION ANOMALY DETECTION ENHANCEMENT | May 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18670636 | INJECTION FOR FAULT INSERTION AND INTEGRATION TESTING | May 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18653719 | CIRCUIT ELEMENT LINK TRAINING IN A MEMORY DEVICE | May 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18706136 | DATA STORAGE METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON ADDITIONAL CHECK CODES AND CHECK CODES CORRESPONDING TO ORIGINAL ENCODING METHOD, DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18647357 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTACT CENTER FAULT DIAGNOSTICS | April 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18635073 | MEMORY CONTROLLER FOR PERFORMING EFFICIENT ERROR CORRECTION CODE (ECC) DECODING BASED ON HARD DECISION DATA AND SOFT DECISION DATA AND STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | April 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18627181 | Caching Snapshot Information For Snapshot Image Processing and Optimization Based on Aggregating Read Requests | April 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18626382 | DIAGNOSTIC BOOT CYCLES IN A HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING PLATFORM | April 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18696394 | DATA ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | March 2024 | March 2025 | Abandon | 11 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18696124 | ISOLATED DIAGNOSIS OF SOURCE OF ERROR USING CONTROL PANEL CIRCUITRY | March 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18696115 | Information Processing Apparatus Determining Risk Grade Based on Header Information | March 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18694892 | Burn-In Apparatus For Testing Multi-Media Products Based on a Test File Generated by Matching a Signature and Log | March 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18581946 | HYBRID ERROR CORRECTION SYSTEM DESIGN FOR MULTIMODE SOLID-STATE DRIVES | February 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18444523 | Data Protection Supplemental to Data Recovery | February 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18433705 | Detection of Anomalies in Behavior of a Device Under Test Subjected to Disturbances Using AI Algorithm Trained on Observations From When the DUT is Not Subjected to Disturbances | February 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18415627 | INTERLEAVED REED-SOLOMON (IRS) WITH COLLABORATIVE DECODING | January 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18408936 | METHOD FOR MONITORING A CLOCK GENERATOR MODULE OF AN ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT | January 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18542254 | PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FAULTY GPU, BASED ON PREDICTION MODEL ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 9 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18569911 | Component Firmware Replacements via Networks | December 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18537076 | UNIFIED TEST AND DEBUG CHIPLET ARCHITECTURE | December 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18528220 | Error Monitoring and Prevention in Computing Systems Based on Future Fault Prediction and Historical Values of a Network Characteristic | December 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18513953 | Electronic Device, Server Testing System and Method with Environment Detection | November 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18513380 | SELF-CONTAINED AND CONFIGURABLE DEBUGGING MECHANISM FOR STREAM-BASED HARDWARE ACCELERATORS | November 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18506825 | Systems and Methods to Reprogram Mobile Devices Based on Identity Information Queried Using a Low-Functionality Driver | November 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18506172 | SYSTEM LEVEL TESTING USING A CENTRAL TEST MANAGER | November 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18489496 | RAID Protection Updates Based on Storage System Reliability | October 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18553876 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT SYNCHRONIZES A STANDBY SYSTEM DATABASE WITH AN ACTIVE SYSTEM DATABASE | October 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18368753 | METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURING DATA SWITCH TO ENABLE RATE ADAPTION BETWEEN COMMUNICATION DEVICES, DATA SWITCH AND STORAGE MEDIUM | September 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18464913 | TURNING ON SWITCHES BASED ON APPARATUS CONNECTION SETTING A HARDWARE-IN-LOOP TEST SYSTEM | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18233344 | FRAMEWORK FOR SCHEDULING ACCELERATOR-ENABLED WORKLOADS | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18446303 | Providing Application-Side Infrastructure To Control Cross-Region Replicated Object Stores | August 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18446226 | High Availability And Disaster Recovery For Replicated Object Stores | August 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18446319 | Controlling The Direction Of Replication Between Cross-Region Replicated Object Stores | August 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18364764 | ERROR CORRECTION CODE | August 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18359926 | PRIORITIZATION DATA RESTORE BASED ON RECOVERY TIME OBJECTIVES | July 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18273215 | Method And System For Orchestrating Remote Block Device Connection Between Servers | July 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18223627 | INTELLIGENT SCORE BASED OOM TEST BASELINE MECHANISM | July 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18346753 | FAULT-TOLERANT SYSTEM WITH MULTI-CORE CPUS CAPABLE OF BEING DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURED | July 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18338316 | FACILITATING ERROR CORRECTIONS DURING TESTING OF PROPOSED CODE | June 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18337922 | LEVERAGING HEALTH STATUSES OF DEPENDENCY INSTANCES TO ANALYZE OUTAGE ROOT CAUSE | June 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18332475 | END-TO-END RESTARTABILITY OF CROSS-REGION REPLICATION USING A COMMON SNAPSHOT | June 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18330230 | GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE HEATMAP OF MOST USED SYSTEM TRANSACTION WITH TEST AUTOMATION DETAILS | June 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18324264 | Data replication across data servers for failover processing | May 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18202297 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DATA ACCESS MANAGEMENT OF MEMORY DEVICE IN PREDETERMINED COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE TO ENHANCE SUDDEN POWER OFF RECOVERY OF PAGE-GROUP-BASED REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INDEPENDENT DISKS PROTECTION WITH AID OF SUSPENDIBLE SERIAL NUMBER | May 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199328 | SELECTING A WITNESS SERVICE WHEN IMPLEMENTING A RECOVERY PLAN | May 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18318592 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT FORMS IMAGE BASED ON INFORMATION FROM WIRELESS TAG | May 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18142018 | KEYPAD HEALTH AND DIAGNOSTICS SYSTEM AND PROCESSES | May 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18140982 | Automated Application Programming Interface (API) Route Testing System | April 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 14 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18307716 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTACT CENTER FAULT DIAGNOSTICS | April 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18139148 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING OR VERIFYING A CIRCUIT BY INSERTING A SABOTEUR CIRCUIT | April 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18306058 | Managing the Migration of Virtual Machines in the Presence of Uncorrectable Memory Errors | April 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18304223 | OFFLOADING A TASK FROM AN EDGE SERVER THAT IS INTEGRATED WITH A MOVING VEHICLE | April 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18136395 | EFFICIENT TABLE-BASED ARCHIVING OF DATA ITEMS FROM SOURCE STORAGE SYSTEM TO TARGET STORAGE SYSTEM | April 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18299185 | SYSTEM-ON-CHIP AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A DIAGNOSIS DURING RUNTIME | April 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18129381 | MANAGEMENT OF HOT ADD IN A TESTING ENVIRONMENT FOR DUTs THAT ARE CXL PROTOCOL ENABLED | March 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18245593 | METHOD FOR TRANSITIONING A VEHICLE BETWEEN DIFFERENT MODES ACCORDING TO AGREEMENT AND DEVIATIONS BETWEEN TIME SIGNALS OF DIFFERENT TIME SOURCES | March 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18184331 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOTE VERIFICATION OF THE INTEGRITY OF A COMPUTER PROGRAM IN A COMPUTING UNIT TO BE CHECKED | March 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18175143 | Rebuilding Missing Data in a Storage Network via Locally Decodable Redundancy Data | February 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18174759 | AGENT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT FOR BACKUP AND RESTORE APPLICATIONS | February 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18175091 | LEADER ELECTION IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM BASED ON NODE WEIGHT AND LEADERSHIP PRIORITY BASED ON NETWORK PERFORMANCE | February 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18110281 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSOR DEBUG USING LOW-BANDWIDTH INTERFACE WITH CONFIGURABLE LIST OF SKIP AND LOOP INSTRUCTIONS | February 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18103966 | Automated Determination of Tuned Parameters for Analyzing Observable Metrics | January 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18103891 | Early Abnormality Detection Based on Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency Vectors Created Using Event Logs | January 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18159593 | CLOUD RESTART FOR VM FAILOVER AND CAPACITY MANAGEMENT | January 2023 | September 2024 | Abandon | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18096420 | OPERATION VERIFYING APPARATUS, OPERATION VERIFYING METHOD AND OPERATION VERIFYING SYSTEM | January 2023 | October 2024 | Abandon | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18096102 | PROGRAMMABLE INITIAL PACKETS REJECTION IN A DISPLAY SYSTEM INTERFACE | January 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18152148 | Establishing A Guarantee For Maintaining A Replication Relationship Between Object Stores During A Communications Outage | January 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18083846 | RECOVERY OF A SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER | December 2022 | April 2024 | Abandon | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18064318 | Data Error Identification Prior to Role Reversal on a Remote Data Replication Facility | December 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18062664 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY CLEARING AND INSTALLING DATA ON A PLURALITY OF COMPUTING DEVICES | December 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18061620 | PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEM RUNTIME STATE RELOAD | December 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18059633 | SYSTEM LEVEL TESTING OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PRIMITIVES | November 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18059061 | UNIFORM PROCESS FOR GENERATING MULTIPLE OUTPUTS WITH COMMON SECTION IN PSEUDO-RANDOM SOFTWARE SYSTEM | November 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17999780 | REMAPPING AT LEAST ONE OF A GUARD TAG AND AN ADDRESS TAG ASSOCIATED WITH A TARGET ADDRESS TO GENERATE A REMAPPED TAG FOR USE IN TAG CHECKING | November 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17989853 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR STATE CONVERGENCE ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH AVAILABILITY APPLICATION MIGRATION IN A VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT | November 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 38 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18057160 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO REPROGRAM MOBILE DEVICES INCLUDING A CROSS-MATRIX CONTROLLER TO PORT CONNECTION | November 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17977017 | FENCE RANDOMIZATION WITH INTER-CHIP FENCING CONSTRAINTS | October 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17975545 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTACT CENTER FAULT DIAGNOSTICS | October 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17970013 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT FORMS IMAGE BASED ON INFORMATION FROM WIRELESS TAG | October 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17965846 | DYNAMICALLY CAPTURING DEBUG LOGS DURING RUNTIME | October 2022 | September 2024 | Abandon | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17918786 | CONTROLLER FOR TESTING EXECUTABLE PROGRAM ELEMENT OF A VEHICLE FUNCTION, AND MOTOR VEHICLE COMPRISING A CONTROLLER | October 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17960408 | ERROR CORRECTION DYNAMIC METHOD TO DETECT AND TROUBLESHOOT SYSTEM BOOT FAILURES | October 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 31 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17936790 | CONTROLLER AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE CONTROLLER FOR DETERMINING RELIABILITY DATA BASED ON SYNDROME WEIGHT | September 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17935176 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ERROR RECOVERY IN REBOOTLESS FIRMWARE UPDATES | September 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17933563 | Recovering Missing Data in a Storage Network via Locally Decodable Redundancy Data | September 2022 | November 2022 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17903925 | TRACE BUFFER DATA MANAGEMENT FOR EMULATION SYSTEMS | September 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17902720 | Flexible RAID Layouts In A Storage System | September 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17880181 | PROVIDING DEBUG INFORMATION ON PRODUCTION CONTAINERS USING DEBUG CONTAINERS | August 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17879720 | Optimizing Snapshot Image Processing Utilizing First and Second Levels of Snapshot Information and First and Second Levels of Cached Snapshot Information | August 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17867885 | Safeguarding a system against false positives | July 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17866845 | SAFEGUARDING A SYSTEM AGAINST FALSE NEGATIVES | July 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17792511 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD FOR HOST MACHINE AND BACKUP MACHINE OF STATION APPLICATION SERVER | July 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17850145 | Utilizing Locally Decodable Redundancy Data in a Vast Storage Network | June 2022 | August 2022 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17844991 | ISOLATED STORAGE DEVICE SECONDARY TESTING | June 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SCHELL, JOSEPH O.
With a 16.7% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges here than typical.
Filing a Notice of Appeal can sometimes lead to allowance even before the appeal is fully briefed or decided by the PTAB. This occurs when the examiner or their supervisor reconsiders the rejection during the mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) after the appeal is filed.
In this dataset, 28.3% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is below the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal has limited effectiveness in prompting favorable reconsideration.
⚠ Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.
⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner SCHELL, JOSEPH O works in Art Unit 2114 and has examined 794 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 87.3%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 31 months.
Examiner SCHELL, JOSEPH O's allowance rate of 87.3% places them in the 66% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by SCHELL, JOSEPH O receive 1.89 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 46% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by SCHELL, JOSEPH O is 31 months. This places the examiner in the 54% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +6.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SCHELL, JOSEPH O. This interview benefit is in the 35% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 32.8% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 70% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. Consider whether your amendments or new arguments are strong enough to warrant an RCE versus filing a continuation.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 42.7% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 65% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows above-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. If your amendments clearly overcome the rejections and do not raise new issues, consider filing after-final amendments before resorting to an RCE.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 38.1% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 36% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show below-average success with this examiner. Consider whether your arguments are strong enough to warrant a PAC request.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 70.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 58% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 44.8% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner shows above-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. The mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) provides an opportunity for reconsideration.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 46.9% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 41% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show below-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 8.6% of allowed cases (in the 92% percentile). Per MPEP § 1302.04, examiner's amendments are used to place applications in condition for allowance when only minor changes are needed. This examiner frequently uses this tool compared to other examiners, indicating a cooperative approach to getting applications allowed. Strategic Insight: If you are close to allowance but minor claim amendments are needed, this examiner may be willing to make an examiner's amendment rather than requiring another round of prosecution.
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 4.9% of allowed cases (in the 80% percentile). Per MPEP § 714.14, a Quayle action indicates that all claims are allowable but formal matters remain. This examiner frequently uses Quayle actions compared to other examiners, which is a positive indicator that once substantive issues are resolved, allowance follows quickly.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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