Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18933070 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR ADAPTIVE DESIGN EXPLORATION AND MODEL MANAGEMENT | October 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18732556 | PERSONALIZED AUTONOMOUS SPREADSHEETS | June 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18732549 | AUTONOMOUS SPREADSHEET CREATION | June 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18615840 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MULTI-STAGE CONFIGURATION SERVICE FOR POLICY-DRIVEN TRANSFORMATION | March 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18433528 | CENTRALIZED DYNAMIC PORTAL FOR CREATING AND HOSTING STATIC AND DYNAMIC APPLICATIONS | February 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18417280 | LOADING ANIMATION WITH SHAPE THAT GROWS FROM WITHIN FROM CENTRAL POINT | January 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18414120 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTELLIGENT FORMS AUTOMATION | January 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18374513 | CAPTURING TOUCHLESS INPUTS AND CONTROLLING A USER INTERFACE WITH THE SAME | September 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18241782 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR TESTING THE ACCURACY OF SOFTWARE THAT IDENTIFIES USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS ON A WEBPAGE | September 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18239719 | TABLE CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2023 | May 2025 | Abandon | 21 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18226013 | CONTEXTUAL ANSWER GENERATION IN SPREADSHEETS | July 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18225056 | INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTATION PAGES FOR SOFTWARE PRODUCTS AND FEATURES | July 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18339472 | GENERATING ACTIONABLE INFORMATION FROM DOCUMENTS | June 2023 | May 2025 | Abandon | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18196619 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING LOCATION OF CONTENT WITHIN AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT | May 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18296867 | CONTENT AWARE FONT RECOMMENDATION | April 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18170465 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIDIRECTIONAL CONTROL CONNECTING HARDWARE DEVICE ACTION WITH URL-BASED WEB NAVIGATION | February 2023 | June 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18085150 | RESOURCE DEPENDENCY SYSTEM AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | December 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18079191 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17913155 | CONTROLLER, DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM OF CONTROLLER, AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD | September 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 33 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17930097 | System and Method for Controlling a Wire Electric Discharge Machine | September 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17900251 | FREQUENCY DOMAIN-EMBEDDED, STATE SPACE METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DECENTRALIZED CONTROL OF COUPLED PLANTS | August 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17836370 | SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC EDITING WITH HIDDEN CODES | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17715384 | SUPPORTING PIECEWISE UPDATE OF JSON DOCUMENT EFFICIENTLY | April 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17671339 | CONTACT DETECTION METHOD | February 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17671500 | AIR CONDITIONING CONTROL SYSTEM, AIR CONDITIONER, AND MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE | February 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 41 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17669623 | STORAGE MEDIUM, SCREEN GENERATION ASSISTING APPARATUS, AND GENERATION ASSISTING METHOD | February 2022 | May 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17592529 | FIVE-AXIS ARTIFICIAL TOOTH PROCESSING MACHINE USING LINEAR MOTOR | February 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17625849 | LAUNDRY DEVICE WITH A DRIVE SYSTEM | January 2022 | April 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17517890 | PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTION CONTROL METHODS WITH LOCATING SYSTEM-BASED SIMULATIONS OF PRODUCTION SEQUENCES | November 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17488082 | TEACHING METHOD FOR SYSTEM FOR TAKING OUT MOLDED PRODUCT AND SYSTEM FOR TAKING OUT MOLDED PRODUCT | September 2021 | June 2025 | Abandon | 44 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17475154 | COLOR MATCHING SYSTEM AND METHODS OF USE | September 2021 | January 2024 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17417766 | NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE AND NUMERICAL CONTROL METHOD | June 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17417781 | Geometrical Transformations in Additive Manufacturing | June 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17417084 | WIND TURBINE CONTROL BASED ON OPTIMICING AND NON-OPTIMICING CONTROLLER ROUTINES | June 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17287477 | PART PACKING BASED ON AGENT USAGE | April 2021 | April 2025 | Abandon | 47 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17170533 | BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH DYNAMIC BUILDING MODEL ENHANCED BY DIGITAL TWINS | February 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 44 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16201404 | HISTORIAN INTERFACE SYSTEM | November 2018 | March 2020 | Abandon | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15585196 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | May 2017 | April 2020 | Allow | 36 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 15295434 | ATOM-BASED SENSIBLE SYNCHRONIZATION FOR INFORMATION INDEXING | October 2016 | May 2019 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 15268209 | DELIVERING WRAPPED PACKAGES IN RESPONSE TO THE SELECTION OF ADVERTISEMENTS | September 2016 | December 2016 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15000250 | DELIVERING WRAPPED PACKAGES IN RESPONSE TO THE SELECTION OF ADVERTISEMENTS | January 2016 | August 2016 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14971185 | READING DEVICE USABILITY | December 2015 | July 2016 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14966195 | HISTORIAN INTERFACE SYSTEM | December 2015 | August 2018 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 14831536 | TECHNIQUES FOR UTILIZING INFORMATION ASSOCIATED WITH AN ACTION COMMAND TO SELECT AN APPROPRIATE FORM | August 2015 | November 2017 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14726856 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND SOFTWARE APPLICATION FOR DISPLAYING DATA FROM A WEB SERVICE IN A VISUAL MAP | June 2015 | March 2016 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 14691808 | INCORPORATING CONTENT ANALYTICS AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING INTO INTERNET WEB BROWSERS | April 2015 | March 2017 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14622317 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MANAGEMENT OF WEB PAGE LINKS | February 2015 | June 2016 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 14555382 | Meta Tag Ownership and Control | November 2014 | November 2016 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14530920 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMATTING DATA FROM ONE SOFTWARE APPLICATION SOURCE INTO A FORMAT COMPATIBLE FOR IMPORTING INTO ANOTHER SOFTWARE APPLICATION | November 2014 | February 2017 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14448889 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMATION OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS | July 2014 | March 2019 | Allow | 56 | 6 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 14276143 | DOCUMENT CONVERSION APPARATUS | May 2014 | December 2016 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 14192801 | META TAG OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL | February 2014 | November 2016 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 13790332 | GENERATING SIMULATED CONTAINMENT REPORTS OF DYNAMICALLY ASSEMBLED COMPONENTS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | March 2013 | May 2015 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 13790414 | GENERATING SIMULATED CONTAINMENT REPORTS OF DYNAMICALLY ASSEMBLED COMPONENTS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | March 2013 | April 2015 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 13770699 | GENERATING SIMULATED CONTAINMENT REPORTS OF DYNAMICALLY ASSEMBLED COMPONENTS IN A CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | February 2013 | June 2015 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 13728415 | PREDICTIVE WEB PAGE RENDERING USING A SCROLL VECTOR | December 2012 | January 2016 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13556197 | Renderer-Assisted Webpage Navigating Tool | July 2012 | January 2016 | Allow | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13556798 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHANGING THEME OF APPLICATION IN PORTABLE TERMINAL | July 2012 | April 2016 | Allow | 45 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 13548020 | ASSISTING DOCUMENT CREATION | July 2012 | February 2016 | Allow | 43 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13532690 | Automatically Detecting Layout of Bidirectional (BIDI) Text | June 2012 | June 2015 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13292302 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DISPLAYING WEB PAGES BASED ON A USER-SPECIFIC BROWSER HISTORY ANALYSIS | November 2011 | December 2015 | Allow | 49 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 13164994 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MANAGEMENT OF WEB PAGE LINKS | June 2011 | November 2014 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 13074071 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR TWO-WAY LINKING BETWEEN RELATED GRAPHICS AND TEXT IN AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT | March 2011 | September 2014 | Allow | 42 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 12737888 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC PLAY LIST MODIFICATION | February 2011 | February 2014 | Abandon | 36 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 12972753 | VISUAL INDICATION OF DOCUMENT SIZE IN A VIRTUAL RENDERING | December 2010 | December 2014 | Allow | 47 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 12956049 | PROGRAMMATIC CONVERSION OF SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION INTO EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS | November 2010 | May 2015 | Allow | 53 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 12939061 | Proportional Font Scaling | November 2010 | July 2015 | Allow | 57 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 12853699 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC PAGE LAYOUT | August 2010 | February 2016 | Allow | 60 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 12732473 | BROWSER COMPATIBILITY CHECKER TOOL | March 2010 | September 2015 | Allow | 60 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12537131 | DOCUMENT LAYOUT SYSTEM | August 2009 | April 2016 | Allow | 60 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 12138367 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING CREATION OF AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT | June 2008 | June 2015 | Allow | 60 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12132388 | MOBILE TERMINAL FOR SETTING BOOKMARKING AREA AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | June 2008 | October 2014 | Allow | 60 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner CORTES, HOWARD.
With a 50.0% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. This reversal rate is above the USPTO average, indicating that appeals have better success 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, 50.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
✓ Appeals to PTAB show good success rates. If you have a strong case on the merits, consider fully prosecuting the appeal to a Board decision.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner CORTES, HOWARD works in Art Unit 2118 and has examined 65 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 83.1%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 34 months.
Examiner CORTES, HOWARD's allowance rate of 83.1% places them in the 51% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by CORTES, HOWARD receive 1.75 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 52% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by CORTES, HOWARD is 34 months. This places the examiner in the 23% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +11.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by CORTES, HOWARD. This interview benefit is in the 51% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 33.9% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 68% 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 32.1% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 39% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows below-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. You may need to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 66.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 42% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 25.0% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner shows below-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. Be prepared to fully prosecute appeals if filed.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 83.3% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 93% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are frequently granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1002.02(c), various examiner actions are petitionable to the Technology Center Director, including prematureness of final rejection, refusal to enter amendments, and requirement for information. If you believe an examiner action is improper, consider filing a petition.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 8% percentile). This examiner rarely makes examiner's amendments compared to other examiners. You should expect to make all necessary claim amendments yourself through formal amendment practice.
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 8% percentile). This examiner rarely issues Quayle actions compared to other examiners. Allowances typically come directly without a separate action for formal matters.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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