Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18824375 | COMPUTER-BASED PLATFORMS/SYSTEMS/DEVICES/COMPONENTS AND/OR OBJECTS CONFIGURED FOR GENERATING VALUES FOR DATA STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | September 2024 | March 2026 | Abandon | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18823437 | DISTRIBUTABLE HASH FILTER FOR NONPROBABILISTIC SET INCLUSION | September 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18815689 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT MANAGEMENT WITH INTELLIGENT DATA STORE ACCESS ACROSS DISTRIBUTED STORES | August 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18785663 | COMPRESSED SIGNAL PROPAGATION PIPELINE | July 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18780353 | Distributed File System that Provides Scalability and Resiliency | July 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18678996 | METRICS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | May 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18675930 | DATA EXPLORATION USING NATURAL LANGUAGE WITH DATA SAMPLING | May 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 21 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18656169 | NFT SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND STRUCTURES | May 2024 | November 2025 | Abandon | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18648989 | DEFRAGMENTATION FOR LOG STRUCTURED MERGE TREE TO IMPROVE READ AND WRITE AMPLIFICATION | April 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18638078 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SYNCHRONIZING COMMUNICATION RECORDS IN COMPUTER NETWORKS BASED ON DETECTING PATTERNS IN CATEGORIES OF METADATA | April 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18626984 | AUTOMATED CERTIFICATE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | April 2024 | March 2026 | Abandon | 23 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18438153 | TECHNIQUES TO EMBED A DATA OBJECT INTO A MULTIDIMENSIONAL FRAME | February 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18437031 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA CONVERSATIONS | February 2024 | January 2026 | Abandon | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18408866 | PROACTIVE DETERMINATION OF DATA INSIGHTS | January 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 26 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 18382635 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE EXECUTION OF ANALYSIS AND/OR SERVICES AGAINST MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES WHILE MAINTAINING ISOLATION OF ORIGINAL DATA SOURCE | October 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18475010 | CLUSTER VIEWS FOR COMPUTE SCALE AND CACHE PRESERVATION | September 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18198907 | REPLICATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED LOG ANALYSIS FUNCTIONALITY | May 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 33 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17788560 | STORING AND SEARCHING FOR DATA IN DATA STORES | June 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 42 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16595739 | INTERNET SEARCH RESULT INTENTION | October 2019 | April 2021 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16556368 | PAGE FILTERING VIA COMPRESSION DICTIONARY FILTERING | August 2019 | September 2020 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16554680 | PAGE FILTERING VIA COMPRESSION DICTIONARY FILTERING | August 2019 | September 2020 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16354484 | EVALUATING QUALITY OF ANNOTATION | March 2019 | September 2019 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16354514 | EVALUATING QUALITY OF ANNOTATION | March 2019 | September 2019 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16159689 | Contextual and Collaborative Media | October 2018 | February 2021 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16157304 | SEMANTIC CONCEPT DISCOVERY OVER EVENT DATABASES | October 2018 | March 2021 | Allow | 29 | 7 | 0 | No | No |
| 16114981 | HIERARCHICAL FILE TRANSFER USING KDE-OPTIMIZED FILESIZE PROBABILITY DENSITIES | August 2018 | June 2020 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 15696304 | PAGE FILTERING VIA COMPRESSION DICTIONARY FILTERING | September 2017 | April 2019 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15688493 | EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE LOOKUPS OF DATA BY A STREAM PROCESSOR USING A HASH TABLE | August 2017 | June 2020 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15660992 | EVALUATING QUALITY OF ANNOTATION | July 2017 | December 2018 | Allow | 16 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15428635 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF IDENTIFYING A CONCEPT OF A GOOD OR SERVICE FOR AN UNMET MARKET POTENTIAL | February 2017 | September 2020 | Abandon | 43 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15252160 | Short-Circuiting Normal Grace-Period Computations In The Presence Of Expedited Grace Periods | August 2016 | March 2019 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 15250115 | SENTIMENT ANALYSIS | August 2016 | December 2018 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15204269 | PATTERN LABELING | July 2016 | November 2019 | Allow | 40 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 15203063 | ROUTINE DEVIATION NOTIFICATION | July 2016 | November 2019 | Allow | 40 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 15194635 | PAGE FILTERING VIA COMPRESSION DICTIONARY FILTERING | June 2016 | April 2019 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15063244 | EVALUATING QUALITY OF ANNOTATION | March 2016 | December 2018 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15005529 | SELECTION OF IMPLEMENTATION FOR QUERY EXECUTION | January 2016 | October 2019 | Allow | 45 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14381303 | TRIGGERING OF A SOFTWARE APPLICATION BY THE USE OF A CARTOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION | August 2014 | January 2019 | Allow | 53 | 6 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 14336299 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PRODUCT | July 2014 | December 2019 | Allow | 60 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 13947016 | GROUP MEMBERSHIP CONTENT PRESENTATION AND AUGMENTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | July 2013 | March 2019 | Allow | 60 | 3 | 1 | Yes | Yes |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SKHOUN, HICHAM.
With a 100.0% 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, 80.0% 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 SKHOUN, HICHAM works in Art Unit 2164 and has examined 22 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 95.5%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.
Examiner SKHOUN, HICHAM's allowance rate of 95.5% places them in the 85% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by SKHOUN, HICHAM receive 1.95 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 48% 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 SKHOUN, HICHAM is 30 months. This places the examiner in the 59% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a -11.1% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SKHOUN, HICHAM. This interview benefit is in the 3% 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, 23.3% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 32% 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 14.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 15% 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, 100.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 71% 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 83.3% of appeals filed. This is in the 76% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 20.0% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1207.01, all appeals must go through a mandatory appeal conference. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration even before you file an Appeal Brief.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 25.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 13% 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 11% 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 13% 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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