Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18887855 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY CONTROLLER | September 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18771247 | STORAGE SYSTEM IMPROVING ENCRYPTION INTEGRITY OF DATA AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | July 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18751612 | COMPARISON OF A FINGERPRINT GENERATED FOR A REALIGNED DATA PAGE THAT BEGINS AT A NON-ZERO VALUE PORTION TO A PLURALITY OF FINGERPRINTS OF A DEDUPLICATION STORAGE SYSTEM | June 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18750570 | SNOOP FILTER SHARER VECTOR EXPANSION | June 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18674776 | SYSTEM AND METHOD USING METADATA TO DIRECTLY READ TARGET DATA IN STORAGE NODES | May 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18649906 | ZERO-COPY VOLUME MOVE WITHIN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | April 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18646447 | OPERATING METHOD OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE USING BIT FLIPPING | April 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18612578 | METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND APPARATUS FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION WITH DETERMINED HOST-ADDRESS TO FLASH-ADDRESS MAPPING (H2F) SUB-TABLES IN FLASH MEMORY DEVICE | March 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18607651 | GARBAGE COLLECTION AND BIN SYNCHRONIZATION FOR DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ARCHITECTURE | March 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18591777 | CONTROLLING VARIATION OF VALID DATA COUNTS IN GARBAGE COLLECTION SOURCE BLOCKS | February 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18588599 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING A CYCLIC REDUNDANCY CHECK ENGINE AND MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | February 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18584779 | Selecting Garbage Collection Processes | February 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18685207 | DATA CACHING AND READING METHOD, AND DATA ACCESS SYSTEM | February 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18422393 | STORAGE SPACE ACCOUNTING TECHNIQUES ALLOWING STORAGE OBJECT IDENTIFIER REUSE AND REASSIGNMENT | January 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18421818 | DATA MAINTENANCE AND DELETION WITH TRUSTWORTHY ENERGY AWARENESS | January 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18418253 | OPTIMIZING DATA STORAGE WITH ACCES WINDOWS | January 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18579660 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING DATA COMPRESSION MODEL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | January 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18403465 | Cooperative Storage Device for Managing Logical Subdivisions | January 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18399349 | DATA COMPRESSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DATA DECOMPRESSION METHOD AND APPARATUS | December 2023 | August 2025 | Abandon | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18529868 | MANAGING TRIM COMMANDS IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | December 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18500524 | TRACKING READ VOLTAGES IN MEMORY DEVICES USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS | November 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18471392 | CONVERTING THE FORMAT OF A DISTRIBUTED OBJECT STORAGE WITH REDUCED WRITE OPERATIONS | September 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18469063 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE REBALANCING AND CONTROLLER NODE MANAGEMENT BASED ON LOAD PREDICTION | September 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18463604 | Memory Controller and Method for Detecting Data Similarity for Deduplication in a Data Storage System | September 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18358053 | BLOCK-LEVEL SINGLE INSTANCING | July 2023 | May 2025 | Abandon | 22 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18223133 | Data Storage Device and Method for Host-Assisted Efficient Handling of Multiple Versions of Data | July 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18223445 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DRAM-LESS GARBAGE COLLECTION WITH IMPROVED PERFORMANCE | July 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18353862 | WRITE BUFFER LINKING FOR EASY CACHE READS | July 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18346171 | STORAGE DEVICE FOR DETERMINING MEMORY CELL TYPE AFTER DATA INPUT DURING PROGRAM OPERATION AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | June 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18340853 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING DATA OF STORAGE SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | June 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18212432 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE CONFIGURATION DRIFT | June 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18319708 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR CLEANING VALID BITS IN CACHE MEMORY OF THE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | May 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18197363 | MANAGEMENT OF FLASH STORAGE MEDIA | May 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18315040 | STORAGE METHOD CAPABLE OF BEING CONCURRENTLY ACCESSED BY SPLITTING ACCESS COMMAND, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM IMPLEMENTING THE SAME | May 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18250476 | Modulating Credit Allocations in Memory Subsystems | April 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18139190 | SECURING DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY (DRAM) CONTENTS TO NON-VOLATILE IN A PERSISTENT MEMORY MODULE | April 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 21 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18301986 | RECORD INFORMATION MANAGEMENT BASED ON SELF-DESCRIBING ATTRIBUTES | April 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18193623 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SCREENING TB-SCALE INCREMENTAL DATA | March 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18189027 | LIMITING DEDUPLICATION SEARCH DOMAINS | March 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18098279 | MULTI-PAGE PARITY DATA STORAGE IN A MEMORY DEVICE | January 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18150420 | DATA REDUCTION METHOD AND APPARATUS | January 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18093069 | DATA DISPERSION-BASED MEMORY MANAGEMENT | January 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18013152 | DATA STORAGE METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM USING DISTRIBUTED HOSTS FOR USER IDENTIFICATIONS | December 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18085589 | MEMORY CHIP | December 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18008109 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DEDUPLICATE DUPLICATE MEMORY IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | December 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18073487 | FLASH MEMORY SYSTEM WITH ADDRESS-BASED SUBDIVISION SELECTION BY HOST AND METADATA MANAGEMENT IN STORAGE DRIVE | December 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18071454 | Lossy Data Compression | November 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17979851 | Ceph Media Failure and Remediation | November 2022 | February 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17967474 | LOG COMPRESSION | October 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17957075 | STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD UTILIZING A BUFFER WHEN A WRITE FAILURE OCCURS | September 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17955324 | DATA PROCESSING AND TRANSMISSION USING HARDWARE SERIALIZATION AND DESERIALIZATION FUNCTIONS | September 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17954784 | Scheduling Processing-in-Memory Requests and Memory Requests | September 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17932507 | CONTROL MODULE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF FOR ACCESSING DATA IN MEMORY BANK GROUP OF SYNCHRONOUS DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY | September 2022 | May 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17932309 | METHOD FOR INHERITING DEFECT BLOCK TABLE AND STORAGE DEVICE THEREOF | September 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17902909 | NAND RAID CONTROLLER INCLUDING BUFFER AND METHOD PERFORMED BY THE NAND RAID CONTROLLER | September 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 30 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17900122 | MANAGING COMMAND COMPLETION NOTIFICATION PACING IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | August 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17888325 | CACHING FOR MULTIPLE-LEVEL MEMORY DEVICE | August 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17884689 | DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING BITMAP BASED TRIM COMMAND | August 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17884482 | BLOCK-LEVEL SINGLE INSTANCING | August 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17814458 | SLEEP MODE USING SHARED MEMORY BETWEEN TWO PROCESSORS OF AN INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM | July 2022 | August 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17869951 | FAST GARBAGE COLLECTION IN ZONED NAMESPACES SSDS | July 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17850352 | Storage Media Based Search Function For Key Value Data Storage Devices | June 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17839797 | STORAGE DEVICE CONFIGURED TO SELECTIVELY CHANGE A STREAM IDENTIFIER AND OPERATING METHOD OF STORAGE DEVICE | June 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17830047 | CONTROLLING VARIATION OF VALID DATA COUNTS IN GARBAGE COLLECTION SOURCE BLOCKS | June 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17829964 | Data Deduplication Method and Apparatus, and Computer Program Product | June 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 30 | 7 | 0 | No | No |
| 17743137 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | May 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17742019 | SMART QUEUE FOR DISTRIBUTING USER REQUESTS TO AUTOMATED RESPONSE GENERATING SYSTEMS | May 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17738924 | CONTROL APPARATUS TO ACHIEVE PERFORMANCE WHILE LOWERING TEMPERATURE OF A SOLID STATE DRIVE | May 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 29 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17732675 | DATA REDUCTION METHOD, APPARATUS, COMPUTING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR FORMING INDEX INFORMATION BASED ON FINGERPRINTS | April 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 24 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17717454 | GARBAGE COLLECTION AND BIN SYNCHRONIZATION FOR DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ARCHITECTURE | April 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17768101 | RECORDATION OF DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH DATA COMPRESSION METHOD AND COUNTING READING OF THE DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH DATA COUNTING METHOD | April 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17656645 | GARBAGE COLLECTION FOR DATA STORAGE | March 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17701476 | DATA MOVEMENT BASED ON ADDRESS TABLE ACTIVITY | March 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17689078 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD USING DATA COMPRESSION | March 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17653364 | Data Relocation With Protection For Open Relocation Destination Blocks | March 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17679859 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD | February 2022 | April 2024 | Abandon | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17648874 | An Adjustable Deduplication Method, Apparatus, and Computer Program Product | January 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 25 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17583022 | AUTOMATIC DELETION IN A PERSISTENT STORAGE DEVICE | January 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 29 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17579904 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING DATA OF STORAGE SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | January 2022 | January 2024 | Abandon | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17647530 | EFFICIENT INLINE BLOCK-LEVEL DEDUPLICATION USING A BLOOM FILTER AND A SMALL IN-MEMORY DEDUPLICATION HASH TABLE | January 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17643999 | COMPRESSION OF SPARSE TENSORS | December 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17547818 | CONCURRENT PAGE CACHE RESOURCE ACCESS IN A MULTI-PLANE MEMORY DEVICE | December 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17529195 | STORAGE SYSTEM STORING A PLURALITY OF DISK FILES WHICH CORRESPOND TO A PLURALITY OF VIRTUAL DISKS AND ACCESS CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | November 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17518144 | Reduce Command Latency Using Block Pre-Erase | November 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17497269 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING VCRM TRANSMISSION DATA OPTIMIZATION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR | October 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17490199 | DATA STORAGE SYSTEM WITH WORKLOAD-BASED DYNAMIC POWER CONSUMPTION | September 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17485131 | MIGRATING DATA TO DISK WITHOUT INTERRUPTING RUNNING OPERATIONS | September 2021 | May 2023 | Abandon | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17482601 | METHOD OR APPARATUS TO INTEGRATE PHYSICAL FILE VERIFICATION AND GARBAGE COLLECTION (GC) BY TRACKING SPECIAL SEGMENTS | September 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17447899 | USING RPO AS AN OPTIMIZATION TARGET FOR DATADOMAIN GARBAGE COLLECTION | September 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17473804 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DATA AMOUNT REDUCTION IN STORAGE SYSTEM | September 2021 | July 2023 | Abandon | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17468732 | DATA DEDUPLICATION | September 2021 | July 2022 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17464904 | Data Compression Processing Method and Apparatus, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium | September 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17462629 | MANAGING TRIM COMMANDS IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | August 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17446443 | RECORD INFORMATION MANAGEMENT BASED ON SELF-DESCRIBING ATTRIBUTES | August 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17412505 | DYNAMIC APPLICATION CONSISTENT DATA RESTORATION | August 2021 | November 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17393183 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR INITIATING GARBAGE COLLECTION REQUESTS | August 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17390441 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OFFLOADING DATA TRANSFER OPERATIONS BETWEEN SOURCE AND DESTINATION STORAGE DEVICES TO A HARDWARE ACCELERATOR | July 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17387472 | MANAGEMENT OF FLASH STORAGE MEDIA | July 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17419736 | UPDATES TO FLASH MEMORY BASED ON DETERMINATIONS OF BITS TO ERASE | June 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17304942 | Integration of hashgraph and erasure coding for data integrity | June 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D.
With a 57.1% 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, 48.6% 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 BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D works in Art Unit 2136 and has examined 317 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 81.4%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 27 months.
Examiner BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D's allowance rate of 81.4% places them in the 52% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D receive 2.53 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 74% 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 BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D is 27 months. This places the examiner in the 71% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a -2.9% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by BIRKHIMER, CHRISTOPHER D. 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, 18.4% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 17% 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 15.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 16% 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, 28.6% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 30% 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 53.3% of appeals filed. This is in the 24% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 29.2% 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, 20.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 10% 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 0.3% of allowed cases (in the 56% 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 0.8% of allowed cases (in the 59% 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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