Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18757335 | NEURAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND TRANSACTION TRACKING METHOD THEREOF | June 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18629470 | ZONE-AWARE MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN MEMORY SUB-SYSTEMS | April 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18593885 | SCALING OUT ARCHITECTURE FOR DRAM-BASED PROCESSING UNIT (DPU) | March 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18421893 | MODIFICATION OF PROGRAM VOLTAGE LEVEL WITH READ OR PROGRAM-VERIFY ADJUSTMENT FOR IMPROVING RELIABILITY IN MEMORY DEVICES | January 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18514071 | MEMORY DEVICES HAVING PROTECTION CIRCUIT FOR PROTECTING WORD LINE | November 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18490040 | OPEN BLOCK FAMILY DURATION LIMITED BY TEMPERATURE VARIATION | October 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18380427 | METHODS FOR MANAGING INPUT-OUTPUT OPERATIONS IN ZONE TRANSLATION LAYER ARCHITECTURE AND DEVICES THEREOF | October 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18367602 | MEMORY DEVICES AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING THE SAME | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18243268 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STORING META DATA IN SUB-ARRAY BLOCKS OF MEMORY CELL ARRAY | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18461779 | FAIRNESS AND CONSISTENCY IN MULTI-FUNCTION NONVOLATILE MEMORY (NVM) EXPRESS (NVMe) DEVICE (MFND) | September 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18450663 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEMORY BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION | August 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18449165 | Error Correction Methods for Computational SSD Supporting Rapid File Semantic Search | August 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18365242 | METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR ACCESSING WRITE DATA PATH OF ON-CHIP STORAGE CONTROL UNIT | August 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18261159 | POWER STORAGE SYSTEM DATA COLLECTION DEVICE, POWER STORAGE SYSTEM DATA COLLECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | July 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18350833 | VIRTUAL MEMORY POOLING | July 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18338797 | DECODING DEVICE FOR DETERMINING WHETHER TO DECODE DATA UNIT, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | June 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18142579 | Data processing method for improving continuity of data corresponding to continuous logical addresses as well as avoiding excessively consuming service life of memory blocks and the associated data storage device | May 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18194505 | RECONFIGURABLE CACHES FOR IMPROVING PERFORMANCE OF GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS | March 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18193161 | CUSTOMIZABLE SOLID-STATE DRIVE FOR IMPROVED CAPACITY AND ENDURANCE | March 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18112931 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT ADDRESS DECODING AND ADDRESS USAGE REDUCTION | February 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18171104 | DYNAMIC PAGE FIX OPTIMIZATION FOR DATABASE OBJECTS | February 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18160225 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL ADDRESS MAPPING | January 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18153348 | DECODING DEVICE FOR DETERMINING WHETHER TO DECODE DATA UNIT, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | January 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18095878 | MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING DETERMINISTIC AND NON-DETERMINISTIC COMMANDS BASED ON COMMAND EXPIRATION AND THE STATE OF THE INTERMEDIATE COMMAND QUEUE | January 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18094744 | ZONE-AWARE MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN MEMORY SUB-SYSTEMS | January 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18147719 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT DEVICE FOR PERFORMING DMA OPERATIONS BETWEEN A MAIN MEMORY AND A CACHE MEMORY | December 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18088182 | ALGORITHMIC TCAM BASED TERNARY LOOKUP | December 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18145565 | HARDWARE ACCELERATOR FOR HYPERGRAPH PROCESSING AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | December 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18076671 | COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE AND STORAGE DEVICE THAT SHARE MAP DATA, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | December 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17989943 | STORING DATA SEQUENTIALLY IN ZONES IN A DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK | November 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18056445 | SAVING VIRTUAL MEMORY SPACE IN A CLONE ENVIRONMENT | November 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18055440 | STORAGE DEVICE OPERATING IN ZONE UNIT AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | November 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17938027 | NEURAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND TRANSACTION TRACKING METHOD THEREOF | October 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17958593 | STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD WHICH INCLUDES A PLURALITY OF DATA PROCESSING ENGINES AND DATA PROCESSING POLICIES | October 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17931416 | READ DISTURB MANAGEMENT FOR MEMORY | September 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 28 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17931265 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE CONTROLLING ERASE OPERATION | September 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17931061 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING QUEUES IN SYSTEMS WITH HIGH PARALLELISM | September 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17823625 | FILTERING METRICS ASSOCIATED WITH MEMORY | August 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17899231 | Virtually Padding Data Structures | August 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17823450 | Dynamic Address Scramble | August 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17898474 | AUTOMATIC DATA SEPARATION AND PLACEMENT FOR COMPRESSED DATA IN A STORAGE DEVICE | August 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17740927 | STORAGE DEVICE CONFIGURED TO PERFORM AN ALIGNMENT OPERATION AND STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | May 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17731024 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MANAGING METADATA STORAGE AT A MEMORY | April 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17690800 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING OPERATIONS TO NAMESPACES OF A FLASH MEMORY DEVICE | March 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 32 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17647579 | VIRTUAL ADDRESSES FOR A MEMORY SYSTEM | January 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17646311 | ZNS STANDARD BASED STORAGE DEVICE PROVIDING DATA COMPRESSION AND METHOD THEREOF | December 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17561406 | APPROACH FOR PROVIDING INDIRECT ADDRESSING IN MEMORY MODULES | December 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 39 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17560204 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PARSING CONTIGUOUS SYSTEM ADDRESSES, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | December 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17557568 | APPROACH FOR PERFORMING EFFICIENT MEMORY OPERATIONS USING NEAR-MEMORY COMPUTE ELEMENTS | December 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17550465 | VALIDATING MEMORY ACCESS PATTERNS OF STATIC PROGRAM CODE | December 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17543481 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY APPARATUS, MEMORY MODULE, AND MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING MEMORY MODULE | December 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17539238 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD OF RECORDING OPERATION OF CACHE MEMORY | December 2021 | February 2024 | Abandon | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17536475 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DATA PROCESSING, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17455220 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR IMPLEMENTING DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS BETWEEN A CACHE MEMORY AND A MAIN MEMORY | November 2021 | November 2023 | Abandon | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17526016 | ACCELERATE MEMORY DECOMPRESSION OF A LARGE PHYSICALLY SCATTERED BUFFER ON A MULTI-SOCKET SYMMETRIC MULTIPROCESSING ARCHITECTURE | November 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17522633 | MEMORY SYSTEM DIRECTED MEMORY ADDRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES | November 2021 | September 2024 | Abandon | 34 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17470720 | STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING MEMORY CONTROLLER IMPLEMENTING JOURNALING AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE MEMORY CONTROLLER | September 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17467848 | MEMORY-CONTROL LOGIC AND METHOD OF REDIRECTING MEMORY ADDRESSES | September 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17310368 | LOOKUP CIRCUITRY FOR SECURE AND NON-SECURE STORAGE | July 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 40 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17443711 | MEMORY DEVICE QUEUING A PLURALITY OF COMMANDS AND MEMORY SYSTEM HAVING MEMORY DEVICE | July 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 37 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17384298 | AGGREGATING BLOCK MAPPING METADATA TO IMPROVE LINKED CLONE READ PERFORMANCE | July 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 35 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17304656 | TECHNOLOGY FOR EARLY ABORT OF COMPRESSION ACCELERATION | June 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 46 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17231197 | SMOOTH FLUSHING OF CACHED WRITE DATA | April 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17223684 | MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING DETERMINISTIC AND NON-DETERMINISTIC COMMANDS BASED ON COMMAND EXPIRATION AND THE STATE OF THE INTERMEDIATE COMMAND QUEUE | April 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17205398 | CONTROLLER INCLUDING MAP CACHE AND MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING CONTROLLER | March 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17198902 | BANK REDISTRIBUTION BASED ON POWER CONSUMPTION | March 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17179001 | ADDRESS MAPPING FOR A MEMORY SYSTEM | February 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 47 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17160850 | METHOD AND APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PREPARING LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL MAPPING INFORMATION FOR HOST SIDE | January 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 22 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17156740 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INFERRING A PREDICTED NUMBER OF PHYSICAL BLOCKS ERASED FROM A FLASH MEMORY | January 2021 | December 2022 | Abandon | 23 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17146783 | UTILIZING A HYBRID TIER WHICH MIXES SOLID STATE DEVICE STORAGE AND HARD DISK DRIVE STORAGE | January 2021 | November 2022 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17133799 | Flushing Cache Lines Involving Persistent Memory | December 2020 | September 2024 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17124872 | DATA PLACEMENT WITH PACKET METADATA | December 2020 | September 2024 | Allow | 45 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17121799 | INTERRUPTED REPLICATED WRITE RECOGNITION | December 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17120098 | AUTOMATIC DATA SEPARATION AND PLACEMENT FOR COMPRESSED DATA IN A STORAGE DEVICE | December 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17105771 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A SWITCH IN THE EXECUTION MODE OF A PROCESSOR | November 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17096274 | SEQUESTERED MEMORY FOR SELECTIVE STORAGE OF METADATA CORRESPONDING TO CACHED DATA | November 2020 | July 2024 | Allow | 44 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17082947 | VERSIONING DATA STORED ON MEMORY DEVICE | October 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17079968 | EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF DIFFERENT DRIVE CAPACITIES | October 2020 | December 2023 | Allow | 38 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17076208 | FRONT-END OFFLOAD OF STORAGE SYSTEM HASH AND COMPRESSION PROCESSING | October 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 36 | 6 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17035477 | MEMORY SYSTEM, MEMORY CONTROLLER, AND OPERATION METHOD OF MEMORY SYSTEM FOR LOADING AND UPDATING MAPPING INFORMATION TO HOST MEMORY AREA | September 2020 | April 2024 | Allow | 43 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17000142 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR STORING ULTRASOUND DATA | August 2020 | November 2023 | Abandon | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16947820 | OPEN BLOCK FAMILY DURATION LIMITED BY TEMPERATURE VARIATION | August 2020 | July 2023 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16996243 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MAP DATA IN A MEMORY SYSTEM | August 2020 | September 2022 | Abandon | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16996827 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL ADDRESS MAPPING | August 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16994600 | Virtual splitting of memories | August 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16991125 | SAVING VIRTUAL MEMORY SPACE IN A CLONE ENVIRONMENT | August 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16990562 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MAP DATA IN A MEMORY SYSTEM | August 2020 | October 2022 | Abandon | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16947439 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT ADDRESS DECODING AND ADDRESS USAGE REDUCTION | July 2020 | November 2022 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16942641 | SCALING OUT ARCHITECTURE FOR DRAM-BASED PROCESSING UNIT (DPU) | July 2020 | November 2023 | Allow | 39 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16930863 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND METHOD OF CHANGING AND STORING STREAM ID | July 2020 | August 2023 | Abandon | 37 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16924827 | MEMORY CONTROLLER FOR PERFORMING A DUMMY READ OPERATION AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | July 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16910973 | STORAGE CAPACITY RECOVERY SOURCE SELECTION | June 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16946377 | ZONE-AWARE MEMORY MANAGEMENT IN MEMORY SUB-SYSTEMS | June 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16896524 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING AND MANAGING A PARTIAL REGION OF MAPPING INFORMATION IN VOLATILE MEMORY | June 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 32 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16888212 | DATA TECHNIQUES FOR SYSTEM BOOT PROCEDURES | May 2020 | December 2023 | Abandon | 43 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16887817 | Address Fine-Tuning Acceleration System | May 2020 | July 2022 | Abandon | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16883901 | Moving Change Log Tables to Align to Zones | May 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16857995 | METHODS FOR MANAGING INPUT-OUTPUT OPERATIONS IN ZONE TRANSLATION LAYER ARCHITECTURE AND DEVICES THEREOF | April 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 39 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16846764 | Interprocess Communication Method and Interprocess Communications System | April 2020 | November 2023 | Allow | 43 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16842416 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING ACCESS OPERATION IN MEMORY SYSTEM UTILIZING MAP DATA INCLUDING MAPPING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN A HOST AND A MEMORY DEVICE FOR STORING DATA | April 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 40 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner WADDY JR, EDWARD.
With a 0.0% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.
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, 14.3% 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 WADDY JR, EDWARD works in Art Unit 2135 and has examined 317 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 85.2%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 31 months.
Examiner WADDY JR, EDWARD's allowance rate of 85.2% places them in the 56% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by WADDY JR, EDWARD receive 2.43 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 83% 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 WADDY JR, EDWARD is 31 months. This places the examiner in the 35% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +17.6% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by WADDY JR, EDWARD. This interview benefit is in the 63% 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, 31.1% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 55% 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 20.6% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 18% 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, 83.3% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 63% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. If you have strong arguments, a PAC request may result in favorable reconsideration.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 60.9% of appeals filed. This is in the 33% 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 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, 48.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 56% 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 0.3% of allowed cases (in the 54% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments more often than average to place applications in condition for allowance (MPEP § 1302.04).
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 9% 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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