Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19212306 | MULTI-STREAM WRITE-AHEAD LOG OPTIMIZED FOR FLASH-BASED STORAGE DEVICES | May 2025 | October 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19184692 | DATA WRITING METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON CACHE PARTITION AND MIRRORING RESPONSE, SOLID STATE DRIVE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2025 | September 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18933274 | ADAPTIVE MEMORY PARTITION CLOSURE TIME | October 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18899811 | MODIFYING STORAGE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION TO ADJUST RELIABILITY WITH INCREASE IN CAPACITY OF STORAGE SYSTEM | September 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 8 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18888015 | Memory Unit Partitioning for Reconfigurable Dataflow Computers | September 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18794733 | WRITING AND READING DATA SETS TO AND FROM CLOUD STORAGE FOR LEGACY MAINFRAME APPLICATIONS | August 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18792045 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA DE-DUPLICATION METHOD USING IN-MEMORY SEARCH DEVICE | August 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18775129 | METHOD FOR TIERING DATA BASED ON READ FREQUENCY | July 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18769959 | INTERNAL RESOURCE MONITORING IN MEMORY DEVICES | July 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18765072 | READ LATENCY AND SUSPEND MODES | July 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18753698 | MEMORY CONTROLLER PARTITIONING FOR HYBRID MEMORY SYSTEM | June 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18751673 | TEMPERATURE-BASED READ DISTURB OPERATIONS | June 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18735710 | Data Storage Device and Method for Classifying a Set of Continuous Wordlines as an Outlier Band in an Open Block | June 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18734229 | DATA CACHING BASED ON DATA POPULARITY | June 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 8 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18731351 | STORAGE DEVICE, HOST DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SHARED MEMORY AREA ACCESS | June 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18678343 | METHOD FOR HANDLING ACCESS COMMANDS WITH MATCHING AND UNMATCHING ADDRESSES AND SOLID-STATE STORAGE DEVICE OPERATING THE SAME | May 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18675684 | DYNAMIC ONLINE CODE-RATE ALLOCATION ACCORDING TO WORDLINE NOISE FOR ADAPATIVE ECC IN SSD/UFS | May 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18672914 | MEMORY CONTROLLERS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUSES, OPERATION METHODS THEREOF TO EXECUTE A SHUTDOWN PREPARATION OPERATION | May 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18646025 | IMPLICIT ORDERED COMMAND HANDLING | April 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18620935 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVELY MANAGING DATA DISK CAPACITY, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18609230 | CXL MEMORY MODULE, MEMORY DATA SWAP METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM | March 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 8 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18609002 | UPDATES IN AN ELECTRONICALLY ERASABLE PROGRAMMABLE READ-ONLY MEMORY (EEPROM) | March 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18608265 | STORING MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF PRELOADED CONTENT TO MITIGATE CROSS-TEMPERATURE IMPACT | March 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 24 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18605371 | DYNAMIC STORAGE TIERING BASED ON APPLICATION DEMANDS | March 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18590576 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ESTIMATING READ VOLTAGES THEREOF | February 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18585772 | POWER DOWN OF MEMORY DEVICE BASED ON HARDWARE RESET SIGNAL | February 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18585830 | METHOD OF OPERATING STORAGE DEVICE, STORAGE DEVICE PERFORMING THE SAME AND METHOD OF OPERATING STORAGE SYSTEM USING THE SAME | February 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18423272 | MEDIA SCAN METHOD TO REDUCE ACTIVE IDLE POWER OF MEMORY DEVICES | January 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18521789 | PERFORMING DATA OPERATIONS ON GROUPED MEMORY CELLS | November 2023 | October 2025 | Abandon | 23 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18500095 | Channel Optimized Storage Modules | November 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18487981 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING PROCESSING CAPABILITIES OF A MEMORY CONTROLLER FOR ERROR INFORMATION | October 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18486318 | COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE ACCELERATION USING DRAM SHARING BETWEEN SSD IN ALL-FLASH ARRAY | October 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18482662 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDRESSING ZONE-AWARENESS IN A HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENT | October 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18477548 | DATA STORAGE METHOD, OF EMBEDDED STORAGE CHIP USING DUAL-DATA STORAGE-CHANNEL, EMBEDDED STORAGE CHIP, AND DATA STORAGE SYSTEM | September 2023 | February 2025 | Abandon | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18473314 | MEMORY TOPOLOGY BASED EXPANSION METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE | September 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 27 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 18370396 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DATA ACCESS CONTROL OF MEMORY DEVICE WITH AID OF READING PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION | September 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18469225 | STORAGE CLUSTER DATA STRUCTURE EXPANSION | September 2023 | March 2025 | Abandon | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18464073 | STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE STORAGE DEVICE | September 2023 | November 2024 | Abandon | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18243288 | INTERFACE MODULE THAT ALLOWS FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DEVICES WITH DIFFERENT COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS | September 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18459471 | STORAGE DEVICE SUPPORTING RANDOM WRITE AREA ACCESSIBLE FROM HOST AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | September 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18236407 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DATA ACCESS MANAGEMENT OF MEMORY DEVICE IN PREDETERMINED COMMUNICATIONS ARCHITECTURE WITH AID OF UNBALANCED TABLE UPDATE SIZE | August 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18233587 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEMAND-BASED STORAGE | August 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18356493 | EFFICIENT MIGRATION OF LOGICAL STORAGE DEVICES WITHOUT REQUIRING INITIAL APPLICATION RECONFIGURATION | July 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18224747 | METHOD OF EXTENDING REMOTE FUNCTION AND REMOTE FUNCTION EXTENSION DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD | July 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18353493 | COMPREHENSIVE LOAD BALANCING IN A HOST DEVICE THROUGH CONSISTENT PATH SELECTION FOR DATA COPY OFFLOAD | July 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 28 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18208343 | Memory Unit Partitioning Solutions for Reconfigurable Dataflow Computing Systems | June 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18325012 | METHOD OF STORAGE SPACE MANAGEMENT FOR IMPROVING ENDURANCE OF STORAGE DEVICES | May 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18195518 | VIRTUAL QUEUE FOR MESSAGES | May 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18315470 | POINTER-BASED SHARING OF A DATA STRUCTURE BETWEEN THREADS | May 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18314710 | MEMORY SYSTEM RELATED TO SELECTIVELY STORING DATA AND A CORRESPONDING MAP, AND AN OPERATING METHOD OF THE MEMORY SYSTEM | May 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18312968 | Method for Efficiently Processing Instructions in a Computational Storage Device | May 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 7 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18311896 | COMPUTER SYSTEM INCLUDING A MAIN MEMORY DEVICE WITH HETEROGENEOUS MEMORIES AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | May 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18306110 | METHODS OF MEMORY ADDRESS VERIFICATION AND MEMORY DEVICES EMPLOYING THE SAME | April 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18306068 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM HAVING AN ADDRESS TRANSLATION TABLE AND A DATA MAP UPDATED BASED ON AN INVALIDATION REQUEST HAVING A FRAGMENT TABLE | April 2023 | June 2024 | Abandon | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18029066 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONOUSLY RECORDING MANAGEMENT INFORMATION OF STORAGE BLOCK, TERMINAL USING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF | March 2023 | September 2024 | Abandon | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18126869 | COMMUNICATING A PROGRAMMABLE ATOMIC OPERATOR TO A MEMORY CONTROLLER | March 2023 | July 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 18124821 | STORAGE DEVICE PROVIDING HIGH PURGE PERFORMANCE AND MEMORY BLOCK MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF | March 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18121310 | HOST DEVICE WITH ADAPTIVE LOAD BALANCING UTILIZING HIGH-PERFORMANCE DRIVERS | March 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 24 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18117907 | MEMORY DEVICE FORENSICS AND PREPARATION | March 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18089480 | DISTRIBUTED CACHING POLICY FOR LARGE-SCALE DEEP LEARNING TRAINING DATA PRE-PROCESSING | December 2022 | December 2025 | Abandon | 35 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 18085279 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE WITH EFFICIENT CHANGING READ OPTION, AND CONTROLLER, MEMORY DEVICE, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | December 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18061765 | TECHNIQUES FOR IMPLEMENTING FAULT DOMAIN SETS | December 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18071930 | MANAGING AN ADJUSTABLE WRITE-TO-READ DELAY BASED ON CYCLE COUNTS IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | November 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 11 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18055133 | STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACCELERATING STORAGE DEVICE WRITE AND READ SPEED USING A TURBO-WRITE BUFFER | November 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 18 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17978234 | MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE, AND CLOCK SIGNAL CONTROL METHOD | November 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17759048 | MEMORY ACCESS CONTROL IN A VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT | October 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17974428 | METHOD OF STORING DATA AND METHOD OF READING DATA | October 2022 | July 2024 | Abandon | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17969959 | STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING A TURBO WRITE BUFFER DIVIDED INTO A NON-PINNED BUFFER AREA AND A PINNED BUFFER AREA, AN OPERATION METHOD OF A STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE STORAGE DEVICE IN WHICH DATA OF THE NON-PINNED AND PINNED BUFFER AREAS ARE FLUSHED DIFFERENTLY, AND A HOST DEVICE CONTROLLING THE STORAGE DEVICE | October 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17964720 | PAGE TABLE HOOKS TO MEMORY TYPES | October 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 18 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17961473 | MANAGEMENT CIRCUITRY FOR A LEAST RECENTLY USED MEMORY MANAGEMENT PROCESS | October 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17936328 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TAPE DATA ACCESS | September 2022 | August 2024 | Abandon | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17899426 | MEMORY SYSTEM THAT CONTROLS TIMING OF REFRESH OPERATION | August 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17892535 | LOGICAL ADDRESS GRANULARITY CONFIGURATIONS FOR LOGICAL ADDRESS SPACE PARTITIONS | August 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17892879 | EFFICIENT ADDRESS TRANSLATION | August 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 20 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17892581 | ADAPTIVE MEMORY PARTITION CLOSURE TIME | August 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17889660 | RATE ADJUSTMENTS FOR A MEMORY INTERFACE | August 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 33 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17888309 | COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION OF TRIM DATA | August 2022 | September 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17878504 | DETERMINING AND USING MEMORY UNIT PARTITIONING SOLUTIONS FOR RECONFIGURABLE DATAFLOW COMPUTING SYSTEMS | August 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17877300 | EXPANDING DATA STRUCTURES IN A STORAGE SYSTEM | July 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17814140 | METHOD OF DELAYED EXECUTION OF eBPF FUNCTION IN COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE | July 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17868147 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY CONTROLLING PROGRAMMING OPERATIONS OF A MEMORY SYSTEM COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF SUPER BLOCKS | July 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17866169 | FIRMWARE-CONTROLLED AND TABLE-BASED CONDITIONING FOR SYNCHRONOUS HANDLING OF EXCEPTION CASES | July 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17792867 | Method for Improving Data Flow and Access for a Neural Network Processor | July 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17809380 | MEMORY DATA RETENTION USING ISOLATION INTERFACE | June 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17832328 | Writing and Reading Data Sets To and From Cloud Storage for Legacy Mainframe Applications | June 2022 | June 2023 | Abandon | 12 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17742030 | STORAGE DEVICE ADJUSTING HISTORY READ LEVEL STORAGE AREAS BASED ON RELIABILITIES OF MEMORY BLOCKS, STORAGE CONTROLLER, AND OPERATING METHOD OF STORAGE CONTROLLER | May 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17741403 | DATA STRUCTURE ENGINE | May 2022 | August 2024 | Abandon | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17737838 | PERSISTENT SWITCH-BASED STORAGE CONTROLLER | May 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17723533 | ATTRIBUTE-ONLY READING OF SPECIFIED DATA | April 2022 | July 2024 | Abandon | 27 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17714328 | Storage System and Folding Method for Enhanced Performance | April 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17681216 | METHOD FOR MANAGING NAMESPACES IN A STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE DEVICE EMPLOYING THE SAME | February 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17678865 | SOFT READ FOR NVM THAT IS SUBJECT TO DESTRUCTIVE READS | February 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17672602 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A MEMORY DEVICE USING INDEXES | February 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17633523 | TECHNIQUES FOR A FRAGMENT CURSOR | February 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 46 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17567706 | COMMUNICATION OF DIAGNOSTIC PARAMETERS OF A DATA MIRRORING CONFIGURATION FROM A STORAGE CONTROLLER TO A HOST | January 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17559327 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-BLOCKING COHERENT RE-WRITES | December 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17537227 | CACHE LINE DATA | November 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17534780 | CACHE SYSTEMS FOR MAIN AND SPECULATIVE THREADS OF PROCESSORS | November 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17511805 | METHOD AND APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR HANDLING SUDDEN POWER OFF RECOVERY | October 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 21 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17505503 | MEMORY CONTROLLER PARTITIONING FOR HYBRID MEMORY SYSTEM | October 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A.
With a 56.2% reversal rate, the PTAB has reversed the examiner's rejections more often than affirming them. This reversal rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals are more successful here than in most other areas.
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, 32.1% 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 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 shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A works in Art Unit 2132 and has examined 199 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 65.3%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 31 months.
Examiner PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A's allowance rate of 65.3% places them in the 26% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A receive 3.22 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 90% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues more office actions than most examiners, which may indicate thorough examination or difficulty in reaching agreement with applicants.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A 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 -3.7% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by PAPERNO, NICHOLAS A. This interview benefit is in the 7% percentile among all examiners. Note: Interviews show limited statistical benefit with this examiner compared to others, though they may still be valuable for clarifying issues.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 17.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 15% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show lower effectiveness with this examiner compared to others. Consider whether a continuation application might be more strategic, especially if you need to add new matter or significantly broaden claims.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 20.1% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 25% 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 42.9% of appeals filed. This is in the 9% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 16.7% 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, 66.7% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 72% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show above-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Petitionable matters include restriction requirements (MPEP § 1002.02(c)(2)) and various procedural issues.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 10% 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 1.5% of allowed cases (in the 65% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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