Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19315849 | System and Method for Enterprise Hierarchical Persistent Cognitive Machines with Organizational Hierarchy Awareness and Compliance Integration | September 2025 | February 2026 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19294125 | Mobile-Optimized Multi-Stage LLM with Federated Persistent Cognitive Architecture | August 2025 | February 2026 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19260485 | PROCESSING HETEROGENEOUS GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS | July 2025 | October 2025 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 19221862 | MODULAR SOC AI/ML INFERENCE ENGINE WITH DYNAMIC UPDATES USING A CENTRAL COLLECTING AND CONSOLIDATED LAYER-TO-LAYER DATA TRANSFER TOPOLOGY AT EACH NEURAL NETWORK LAYER | May 2025 | February 2026 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 19204647 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPTIMIZING NEURAL NETWORK MODEL | May 2025 | February 2026 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19178873 | Mobile-Optimized Multi-Stage LLM with Autonomous Reasoning | April 2025 | March 2026 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19093171 | SCHEDULING METHOD FOR A MULTI-LAYER CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2025 | November 2025 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 19072823 | GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR CONTENT GENERATION WITH SEARCHABLE REPOSITORY | March 2025 | September 2025 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 19063602 | MODULAR OPEN SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR COMMON INTELLIGENCE PICTURE GENERATION | February 2025 | July 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 19042006 | NEURAL PROCESSING UNIT OPERABLE IN MULTIPLE MODES TO APPROXIMATE ACTIVATION FUNCTION | January 2025 | July 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18985282 | INTEGER GATE LOGIC (IGL) ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK WITH PARRALLELIZATION AND INTERNAL VISUALIZATION CAPABILITIES | December 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18844254 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Saving Memory During Training of Knowledge Graph Neural Networks | September 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18818342 | DATA PREFILTERING FOR LARGE SCALE DATA CLASSIFICATION | August 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18798833 | MODULAR SOC AI/ML INFERENCE ENGINE WITH DYNAMIC UPDATES USING A HUB-AND-SPOKE TOPOLOGY AT EACH NEURAL NETWORK LAYER | August 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18792455 | Multimodal Generative AI Model Protection Using Sequential Sidecars | August 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 8 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18781938 | MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURES WITH SUB-QUADRATIC ITERATOR MODULES | July 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18732648 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM FOR PREDICTING FLUE DUST CONCENTRATION | June 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18596535 | USING EMBEDDING FUNCTIONS WITH A DEEP NETWORK | March 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18418201 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO PREDICTED EVENTS IN TIME-SERIES DATA USING SYNTHETIC PROFILES CREATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS TRAINED ON NON-HOMOGENEOUS TIME-SERIES DATA | January 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18406829 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COHORT-BASED PREDICTIONS IN CLUSTERED TIME-SERIES DATA IN ORDER TO DETECT SIGNIFICANT RATE-OF-CHANGE EVENTS | January 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18522075 | Systems and Methods of Sparsity Exploiting | November 2023 | June 2025 | Abandon | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18501455 | TECHNOLOGY FOR LOWERING PEAK POWER OF NEURAL PROCESSING UNIT USING VARIABLE FREQUENCY | November 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 9 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18478763 | SPLICING SITE CLASSIFICATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS | September 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18455026 | DEEP NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE USING PIECEWISE LINEAR APPROXIMATION | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18354569 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AGGREGATING TIME-SERIES DATA STREAMS BASED ON POTENTIAL STATE CHARACTERISTICS FOLLOWING AGGREGATION | July 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18327850 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO PREDICTED EVENTS IN TIME-SERIES DATA USING SYNTHETIC PROFILES CREATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS TRAINED ON NON-HOMOGENEOUS TIME-SERIES DATA | June 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18299717 | NEURAL NETWORK HARDWARE ACCELERATOR DATA PARALLELISM | April 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18028566 | NEURAL NETWORK RETRAINING METHOD BASED ON AGING SENSING OF MEMRISTORS | March 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18120137 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAY-BASED NEUROMORPHIC PROCESSOR AND IMPLEMENTING METHOD | March 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18174498 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COHORT-BASED PREDICTIONS IN CLUSTERED TIME-SERIES DATA IN ORDER TO DETECT SIGNIFICANT RATE-OF-CHANGE EVENTS | February 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18099904 | SELECTION OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS | January 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18065441 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESPONDING TO PREDICTED EVENTS IN TIME-SERIES DATA USING SYNTHETIC PROFILES CREATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS TRAINED ON NON-HOMOGENOUS TIME SERIES-DATA | December 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17993463 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING AND EXECUTING DEEP TENSOR COLUMNS IN NEURAL NETWORKS | November 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17992814 | OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPILING COMPUTATION GRAPH | November 2022 | December 2024 | Abandon | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17992822 | MEMORY OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NEURAL NETWORK COMPILATION | November 2022 | December 2024 | Abandon | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17972466 | USING EMBEDDING FUNCTIONS WITH A DEEP NETWORK | October 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17959827 | DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM, DATA COLLECTION DEVICE, DATA ACQUISITION DEVICE, AND DATA COLLECTION METHOD | October 2022 | November 2023 | Abandon | 13 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17953909 | HARDWARE-BASED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK DEVICE | September 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17874876 | TOOL FOR FACILITATING EFFICIENCY IN MACHINE LEARNING | July 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17875223 | ELECTRICAL NETWORKS USING ANALYTIC LOSS GRADIENTS FOR DESIGN, ANALYSIS AND MACHINE LEARNING | July 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17872626 | ANALOG NEUROMOPRHIC CIRCUIT WITH STACKS OF RESISTIVE MEMORY CROSSBAR CONFIGURATIONS | July 2022 | March 2026 | Allow | 44 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17809044 | BLOCKWISE FACTORIZATION OF HYPERVECTORS | June 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 42 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17849292 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IDENTIFY DOCUMENT TRANSITIONS BETWEEN ADJACENT DOCUMENTS WITHIN DOCUMENT BUNDLES | June 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17846837 | ACCELERATOR FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS | June 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17806143 | LOW POWER HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR HANDLING ACCUMULATION OVERFLOWS IN A CONVOLUTION OPERATION | June 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 26 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17738436 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER DEVICE FOR TRANSISTOR-BASED NEURAL NETWORKS | May 2022 | December 2022 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17705129 | NEURAL NETWORK LEARNING FOR THE PREVENTION OF FALSE POSITIVE AUTHORIZATIONS | March 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17656625 | NEURAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRUNING THEREOF | March 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 21 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17701809 | HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVATION FUNCTIONS | March 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17655838 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING PROBLEMATIC CORRELATIONS BETWEEN FEATURES FROM MACHINE LEARNING MODEL DATA | March 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17642266 | NEURAL NETWORK MAPPING METHOD AND APPARATUS | March 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17689185 | NEURAL BREGMAN DIVERGENCES FOR DISTANCE LEARNING | March 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 14 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17689755 | Conductance Mapping Technique for Neural Networks | March 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 47 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17639609 | METHOD FOR INCREASING CERTAINTY IN PARAMETERIZED MODEL PREDICTIONS | March 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 46 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17633186 | SEPARATION OF STATES OF MECHANICAL PRESSES BY ANALYZING TRAINED PATTERNS IN A NEURAL NETWORK | February 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 29 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 17592174 | Machine-Learned Attention Models Featuring Echo-Attention Layers | February 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17581453 | Systems and Methods for Sparsity Exploiting | January 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17548692 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING FRACTIONAL ADAPTIVE LINEAR UNIT AS ACTIVATION IN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS | December 2021 | March 2026 | Allow | 51 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17547458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF EXECUTING DEEP TENSOR COLUMNS IN NEURAL NETWORKS | December 2021 | August 2022 | Allow | 8 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17455181 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OVER-PREDICTION IN NEURAL NETWORKS | November 2021 | August 2025 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17510397 | NEURAL NETWORK HARDWARE ACCELERATOR DATA PARALLELISM | October 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 15 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17451260 | MACHINE UNLEARNING AND RETRAINING OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL BASED ON A MODIFIED TRAINING DATASET | October 2021 | August 2025 | Allow | 46 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17492222 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TAGGING DATASETS USING MODELS ARRANGED IN A SERIES OF NODES | October 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17490287 | UPDATING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | September 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17441316 | LEARNING SYSTEM, DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A DATA GENERATION PROGRAM FOR TRAINING NEURAL NETWORKS THROUGH SUPERVISED LEARNING AND DATASET GENERATED FROM ANSWER DATA | September 2021 | September 2025 | Abandon | 48 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17465439 | SECURE, ACCURATE AND FAST NEURAL NETWORK INFERENCE BY REPLACING AT LEAST ONE NON-LINEAR ACTIVATION CHANNEL | September 2021 | July 2025 | Allow | 47 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17460919 | GRAPH MODEL BUILD AND SCORING ENGINE | August 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17405342 | MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE | August 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17372921 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRAINING TREE MODEL | July 2021 | October 2025 | Abandon | 51 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17368636 | DYNAMIC WEB PAGE CLASSIFICATION IN WEB DATA COLLECTION | July 2021 | January 2025 | Abandon | 42 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17420521 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF | July 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 45 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17362887 | CONTENT RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | June 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17361798 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IDENTIFY DOCUMENT TRANSITIONS BETWEEN ADJACENT DOCUMENTS WITHIN DOCUMENT BUNDLES | June 2021 | April 2022 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17345996 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING AN ENSEMBLE OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO DEFEND AGAINST ADVERSARIAL EXAMPLES | June 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17345230 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANOMALY DETECTION IN DYNAMICALLY EVOLVING DATA USING RANDOM NEURAL NETWORK DECOMPOSITION | June 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17342197 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PREDICT SPORTS INJURIES | June 2021 | November 2023 | Abandon | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17292783 | Content Classification Method | May 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 47 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17314751 | NEURAL NETWORK ROBUSTNESS VIA BINARY ACTIVATION | May 2021 | September 2025 | Allow | 52 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17230460 | METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DATA PROCESSING UTILIZING SEPARABLE MULTI-STAGE DATA PROCESSING MODEL IN EDGE-CLOUD NETWORK | April 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17284201 | TASK PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON NEURAL NETWORK | April 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 50 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17226619 | METHODS, MEDIUMS, AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING CAUSAL INFERENCE STRUCTURE BETWEEN CONCEPTS HAVING PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES | April 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 50 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17213167 | TRAINING INDIVIDUALLY FAIR MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS VIA DISTRIBUTIONALLY ROBUST OPTIMIZATION | March 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 51 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17279680 | PREDICTION MANAGMENT SYSTEM, PREDICTION MANAGEMENT METHOD, DATA STRUCTURE, PREDICTION MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND PREDICTION EXECUTION DEVICE | March 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 49 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17206974 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING A CLASSIFIER | March 2021 | January 2026 | Allow | 58 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17195775 | ARITHMETIC DEVICE, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND ARITHMETIC METHOD | March 2021 | April 2025 | Abandon | 50 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17188234 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHODS THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR NEURAL NETWORK LEARNING MODELS UTILIZING DATA MINIMIZATION | March 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 47 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17268660 | BUILDING DEEP LEARNING ENSEMBLES WITH DIVERSE TARGETS | February 2021 | October 2021 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17171507 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING RECOMMENDATION MODEL, CONTENT RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE AND MEDIUM | February 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 43 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17266624 | DISPATCHING DISTRIBUTION | February 2021 | February 2025 | Abandon | 49 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17170416 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODELING CONTINUOUS STOCHASTIC PROCESSES WITH DYNAMIC NORMALIZING FLOWS | February 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17164433 | UTILIZING NEURAL NETWORK MODELS FOR RECOMMENDING AND ADAPTING TREATMENTS FOR USERS | February 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17151001 | Systems and Methods for Training Machine-Learned Models with Deviating Intermediate Representations | January 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17139849 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CROSS-PLATFORM USER PROFILING BASED ON DISPARATE DATASETS USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | December 2020 | September 2024 | Allow | 44 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17132644 | ANALYTICS ENGINE FOR DETECTING MEDICAL FRAUD, WASTE, AND ABUSE | December 2020 | October 2023 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17132776 | SYMBOLIC MODEL TRAINING WITH ACTIVE LEARNING | December 2020 | July 2024 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17115973 | System and method of constructing machine learning workflows through machine learning suggestions | December 2020 | August 2024 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17111097 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING TOOL CONFIGURATIONS IN MACHINING | December 2020 | May 2024 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17098723 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TARGETING POLICYMAKER COMMUNICATION | November 2020 | April 2021 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17095700 | AUXILIARY MODEL FOR PREDICTING NEW MODEL PARAMETERS | November 2020 | May 2024 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17095603 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF TRANSFORMATIONS OF FORMATTED TEMPLATES USING DEEP LEARNING MODELING | November 2020 | September 2023 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner BALDWIN, RANDALL KERN.
With a 14.3% 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, 15.4% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.
⚠ 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 BALDWIN, RANDALL KERN works in Art Unit 2125 and has examined 187 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 77.0%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 46 months.
Examiner BALDWIN, RANDALL KERN's allowance rate of 77.0% places them in the 44% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by BALDWIN, RANDALL KERN receive 2.18 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 59% 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 BALDWIN, RANDALL KERN is 46 months. This places the examiner in the 11% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +31.7% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by BALDWIN, RANDALL KERN. This interview benefit is in the 80% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews are highly effective with this examiner and should be strongly considered as a prosecution strategy. Per MPEP § 713.10, interviews are available at any time before the Notice of Allowance is mailed or jurisdiction transfers to the PTAB.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 29.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 54% 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 18.2% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 21% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner rarely enters after-final amendments compared to other examiners. You should generally plan to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry. Per MPEP § 714.12, primary examiners have discretion in entering after-final amendments, and this examiner exercises that discretion conservatively.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 0.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 5% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show limited success with this examiner compared to others. While still worth considering, be prepared to proceed with a full appeal brief if the PAC does not result in favorable action.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 50.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 15% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 42.9% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner rarely withdraws rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. If you file an appeal, be prepared to fully prosecute it to a PTAB decision. Per MPEP § 1207, the examiner will prepare an Examiner's Answer maintaining the rejections.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 29.4% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 17% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are rarely granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing a petition, as the Technology Center Director typically upholds this examiner's decisions.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 9% 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 10% 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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