Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19012535 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR STAGGERED REFRESH OPERATIONS ACROSS MEMORY DEVICES OF A MODULE | January 2025 | January 2026 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18897883 | MEMORY CONTROLLER FOR SCHEDULING COMMANDS, STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING MEMORY CONTROLLER, AND OPERATING METHOD OF MEMORY CONTROLLER | September 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18820819 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE WITH PRE-ERASE OF METADATA FROM NON-VOLATILE MEMORY | August 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18818852 | ADAPTIVE REPLACEMENT OF SOLID-STATE DISKS WITH VARIABLE WEAR RATES | August 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18776927 | STORAGE DEVICE SUPPORTING REAL-TIME PROCESSING AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | July 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18756420 | MEMORY CONTROLLER PERFORMING RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR MULTIPLE USERS, STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND OPERATING METHOD OF MEMORY CONTROLLER | June 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18754455 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING RANDOM READ ACCESS TO A BLOCK OF DATA USING PARALLEL LUT READ INSTRUCTION IN VECTOR PROCESSORS | June 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18736861 | PROVIDING ENDURANCE TO SOLID STATE DEVICE STORAGE VIA QUERYING AND GARBAGE COLLECTION | June 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18678557 | MEMORY FAILURE PREDICTION AND MITIGATION | May 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18671706 | MEMORY CONTROLLER PERFORMING BOOTING OPERATION AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | May 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18665120 | Storage Systems and Methods for Writing Data to a Persistent Storage Device | May 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18654282 | STORAGE DEVICE FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | May 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18653300 | WEAR LEVELING REPAIR IN A MEMORY DEVICE | May 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18645482 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING NONVOLATILE MEMORY WITH CHECKING A TOTAL SIZE INDICATIVE OF A SUM OF DATA LENGTH SPECIFIED BY A WRITE COMMAND | April 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18644821 | MANAGED NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE WITH DATA VERIFICATION | April 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18643781 | TECHNIQUES FOR ACCELERATED DATA RECOVERY | April 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18637512 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING NONVOLATILE MEMORY AND FOR REDUCING A BUFFER SIZE | April 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18633028 | DYNAMIC STATUS REGISTERS ARRAY | April 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18630146 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM CONTROLLING FIRST AND SECOND MEMORY DEVICES | April 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18623881 | WORKLOAD-BASED SCAN OPTIMIZATION | April 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18618532 | SSD MANAGED HOST WRITE ATOMICITY WITH ARBITRARY TRANSFER LENGTH | March 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18610028 | DATA COMPRESSION FOR MAPPING TABLES | March 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18607266 | ANALOG COMPUTING CONFIGURED MEMORY | March 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18603746 | MEMORY DEVICE BACKGROUND OPERATIONS | March 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18598336 | PROCESSING WRITE OPERATION INFORMATION USING INFLATED DATA | March 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18593678 | PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT USING INTELLIGENT PRIORITIZATION OF MEMORY OPERATIONS | March 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18586207 | ADAPTIVE BLOCK MAPPING | February 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18583540 | MANAGED MEMORY SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE PRIORITY QUEUES | February 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18583569 | Zone Segment Drive Management | February 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18444448 | POWER MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH MEMORY AND CONTROLLER | February 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18434616 | ADAPTIVE ENHANCED CORRECTIVE READ BASED ON WRITE AND READ TEMPERATURE | February 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18430714 | METHODS TO RE-USE STUCK CELLS IN DATA STORAGE, AND ASSOCIATED MEMORY SYSTEMS | February 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18428161 | System and Method for Expanding the Lifetime of Virtual Entries in Data Storage Systems | January 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18413341 | AFFINITY-BASED CACHE OPERATION FOR A PERSISTENT STORAGE DEVICE | January 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18407816 | SYSTEM CACHE OPTIMIZATIONS FOR DEEP LEARNING COMPUTE ENGINES | January 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18527894 | MEMORY SYSTEM WITH SELECTIVE ACCESS TO FIRST AND SECOND MEMORIES | December 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18523412 | PARTITIONS WITHIN BUFFER MEMORY | November 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18506505 | DYNAMIC PARTITION COMMAND QUEUES FOR A MEMORY DEVICE | November 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18505302 | PAGE REQUEST INTERFACE (PRI) HANDLER OPERATIONAL SUPPORT IN RELATION TO CACHING HOST MEMORY ADDRESS TRANSLATION DATA IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | November 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18504992 | PORTIONED ERASE OPERATION FOR A MEMORY SYSTEM | November 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18501412 | STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF ZONES AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | November 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18488727 | BOTTLENECK MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES USING NON-DISRUPTIVE FILE MOVEMENT MECHANISMS IN DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ENVIRONMENTS | October 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18482675 | Partial Execution of a Write Command from a Host System | October 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 29 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 18375363 | STORAGE-SIDE PAGE TABLES FOR MEMORY SYSTEMS | September 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18476685 | JOURNAL BASED DATA STORAGE IN BLOCK-LEVEL STORAGE | September 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18244618 | METHOD OF OPERATING STORAGE DEVICE USING HOST REQUEST BYPASS AND STORAGE DEVICE PERFORMING THE SAME | September 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18236541 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING STORAGE APPARATUS | August 2023 | March 2025 | Abandon | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18365221 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING EXECUTION OF GARBAGE COLLECTION | August 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18365421 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF FOR PERFORMING AN INTERLEAVING READ OPERATION | August 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18363879 | LOCAL STORAGE ACCESS BY OUT-OF-BAND (OOB) PROCESSORS IN HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING PLATFORMS | August 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18359228 | REVERSE GARBAGE COLLECTION PROCESS FOR A STORAGE DEVICE | July 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18273240 | Consistency Group Distributed Snapshot Method And System | July 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18353123 | Network Adapter Providing Address Translation as a Service | July 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18348314 | Read Collision Avoidance in Sequential Mixed Workloads | July 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18347334 | DATA EVICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, CACHE NODE, AND CACHE SYSTEM | July 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 31 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18345927 | LOW POWER MEMORY STATE DURING NON-IDLE PROCESSOR STATE | June 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18343023 | IN-MEMORY NORMALIZATION OF CACHED OBJECTS TO REDUCE CACHE MEMORY FOOTPRINT | June 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18269541 | HYBRID MEMORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH IN-STORAGE PROCESSING AND ATTRIBUTE DATA MANAGEMENT | June 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18337377 | DATA STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING A DATA RELOCATION CIRCUIT AND A PLURALITY OF DATA STORAGE DEVICES AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | June 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18337315 | MEMORY SYSTEM WITH CONTROLLER TO WRITE DATA TO MEMORY BASED ON LIFETIME INFORMATION IN WRITE COMMAND | June 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18336694 | SNOOP FILTER WITH DISAGGREGATED VECTOR TABLE | June 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18336179 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR STORING DATA BASED ON MULTIPLE CACHE HIT RATIOS AND ASSOCIATED PREDICTION HIT RATIOS | June 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18328542 | Single Cycle Request Arbiter | June 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18321037 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING RANDOM READ ACCESS TO A BLOCK OF DATA USING PARALLEL LUT READ INSTRUCTION IN VECTOR PROCESSORS | May 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18036781 | MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM LUN BYPASSING | May 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18298141 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING NONVOLATILE MEMORY WITH CHECKING A TOTAL SIZE INDICATIVE OF A SUM OF DATA LENGTH SPECIFIED BY A WRITE COMMAND | April 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18179434 | COMPUTING REGISTER WITH NON-VOLATILE-LOGIC DATA STORAGE | March 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18177370 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND BLOCK MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR REDUCING A LOAD OF MANAGING BLOCK MANAGEMENT INFORMATION | March 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18176943 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND TEST METHOD FOR EVALUATING DATA INTEGRITY | March 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18176926 | MEMORY SYSTEM THAT MANAGES UPDATE OF ADDRESS MAPPING INFORMATION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | March 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18176956 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING THE MEMORY OF A PARTITIONED SYSTEM | March 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18176517 | UNIFIED STORAGE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING UNIFIED STORAGE | March 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18176446 | MEMORY SYSTEM MANAGING COUNTERS | February 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18176455 | MEMORY SYSTEM HAVING A CONTROLLER MANAGING A LOGICAL ADDRESS SPACE USING NAMESPACES AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE CONTROLLER | February 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18168703 | SYSTEM CACHE OPTIMIZATIONS FOR DEEP LEARNING COMPUTE ENGINES | February 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18103916 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SANTIZATION OF MULTI-LEVEL CELL (MLC) MEMORY | January 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18103133 | DECK BASED MEDIA MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS IN MEMORY DEVICES | January 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 18 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18160314 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | January 2023 | September 2024 | Abandon | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18101496 | Storage Device Configured to Support Multi-Streams and Operation Method Thereof | January 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18148534 | STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF ZONES HAVING SEPARATE COMPRESSION RATIOS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | December 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18091245 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, MEMORY APPARATUS, AND MEMORY SYSTEM THAT IMPROVE THE BALANCE OF THE READ PERFORMANCE | December 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18089904 | STORAGE DEVICE HAVING A CONTROLLER CONFIGURED TO SELECT MODES AS WRITE MODES BASED ON RECEIVED INSTRUCTIONS, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD | December 2022 | June 2024 | Abandon | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18085192 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RELOCATING DATA IN A PERSISTENT STORAGE DEVICE | December 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18067744 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RANDOM DATA DISTRIBUTION IN A MEMORY ARRAY | December 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18076034 | MEMORY CONTROLLER FOR PROCESSING REQUESTS OF HOST AND STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | December 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18074206 | ZONE SEGMENT DRIVE MANAGEMENT | December 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17994530 | UNIFY95: META-LEARNING CONTAMINATION THRESHOLDS FROM UNIFIED ANOMALY SCORES | November 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17994884 | METHOD FOR USING NAND FLASH MEMORY SRAM IN SOLID STATE DRIVE CONTROLLER | November 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17990990 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY MANAGING SHARED MEMORY POOL | November 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17985400 | Asynchronous Persistent Memory Data Mirroring | November 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17979801 | MEMORY CONTROLLERS, STORAGE DEVICES, AND CONTROLLING METHODS OF STORAGE DEVICES | November 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17979042 | MEMORY SYSTEM WITH SELECTIVE ACCESS TO FIRST AND SECOND MEMORIES | November 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17979687 | REDUCING WRITE AMPLIFICATION AND OVER-PROVISIONING USING FLASH TRANSLATION LAYER SYNCHRONIZATION | November 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17973433 | A TECHNIQUE FOR PROCESSING LOOKUP REQUESTS, IN A CACHE STORAGE ABLE TO STORE DATA ITEMS OF MULTIPLE SUPPORTED TYPES, IN THE PRESENCE OF A PENDING INVALIDATION REQUEST | October 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17973427 | STATISTIC BASED CACHE PRE-FETCHER | October 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17971675 | SELECTIVE HARD AND SOFT REWRITES | October 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17968004 | SPOOFING OF DEVICE IDENTIFIERS IN NON-DISRUPTIVE DATA MIGRATION | October 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18045468 | TRANSFORMER STATE EVALUATION METHOD BASED ON ECHO STATE NETWORK AND DEEP RESIDUAL NEURAL NETWORK | October 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17961716 | EXECUTION OF COMMANDS ADDRESSED TO A LOGICAL BLOCK | October 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17957814 | MEMORY SAFETY WITH SINGLE MEMORY TAG PER ALLOCATION | September 2022 | March 2026 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner MACKALL, LARRY T.
With a 33.3% 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, 25.0% 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 MACKALL, LARRY T works in Art Unit 2139 and has examined 215 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 93.5%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 21 months.
Examiner MACKALL, LARRY T's allowance rate of 93.5% places them in the 81% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by MACKALL, LARRY T receive 1.76 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 39% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by MACKALL, LARRY T is 21 months. This places the examiner in the 91% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a -1.9% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by MACKALL, LARRY T. This interview benefit is in the 9% 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, 26.9% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 45% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show below-average effectiveness with this examiner. Carefully evaluate whether an RCE or continuation is the better strategy.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 50.6% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 77% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner is highly receptive to after-final amendments compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 714.12, after-final amendments may be entered "under justifiable circumstances." Consider filing after-final amendments with a clear showing of allowability rather than immediately filing an RCE, as this examiner frequently enters such amendments.
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 40.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 7% percentile among all examiners. 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, 30.8% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 18% 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 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 4.0% of allowed cases (in the 77% percentile). Per MPEP § 714.14, a Quayle action indicates that all claims are allowable but formal matters remain. This examiner frequently uses Quayle actions compared to other examiners, which is a positive indicator that once substantive issues are resolved, allowance follows quickly.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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