Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19300664 | ROBUST RECORD-TO-EVENT CONVERSION SYSTEM | August 2025 | October 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 19089264 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN ARTICLE | March 2025 | February 2026 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 19058178 | Natural Language Database Generation And Query System | February 2025 | March 2026 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18981960 | METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATING PROMPT ENGINEERING AND RELATED PRODUCTS | December 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18969367 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (GenAI)-BASED ANALYSIS OF TICKET DATA | December 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18962567 | DATA QUERY METHODS AND APPARATUSES, STORAGE MEDIA, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES | November 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18960127 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTEXT AUGMENTATION IN RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION | November 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18937310 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUERY INTERFACE RESPONSE SYNTHESIS VIA MACHINE LEARNING AND PROGRESSIVE QUERY DATA DECOMPOSITION | November 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18903020 | PREFERRED STORAGE OF AGGREGATE DATA ITEMS | October 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18828037 | STORAGE SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD | September 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18800804 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING DIGITAL FILES | August 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18786249 | GENERATIVE AI SYSTEMS FOR DOCUMENT-DRIVEN QUESTION ANSWERING | July 2024 | January 2026 | Abandon | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18783404 | COMPOSITE SYMBOLIC AND NON-SYMBOLIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR ADVANCED REASONING AND SEMANTIC SEARCH | July 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18783384 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA QUERY | July 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18777333 | METHOD FOR THROTTLING UNMAP COMMANDS DIRECTED TO A SHARED FILE SYSTEM | July 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18766361 | IMAGE SEARCHING USING A FULL-TEXT SEARCH ENGINE | July 2024 | January 2026 | Abandon | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18668137 | COMPOSITE SYMBOLIC AND NON-SYMBOLIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOR ADVANCED REASONING AND AUTOMATION | May 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18649899 | FAST REUSE OF LOCKING DATA STRUCTURES PRIOR TO MOVEMENT OF ENTRIES TO A CACHE FREE LIST | April 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18646172 | Data Transfer Time Estimation | April 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18641083 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYSTEM BACKUP, MEMORY, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | April 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18634472 | PROCESSING TIME SERIES AND SPATIOTEMPORAL DATA IN DOCUMENT DATABASES | April 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18633448 | MANAGING FILE SYSTEM ENTITY OPEN REQUESTS | April 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18529940 | METHOD FOR BOOK PUSHING, METHOD FOR GENERATING BOOK RECOMMENDATION TEXT, APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | December 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18506994 | Automatic Web Curation of User-Generated Content | November 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18474130 | SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING IN MARKETING | September 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18213727 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SLOWLY CHANGING DIMENSION AND METADATA VERSIONING IN A MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATABASE ENVIRONMENT | June 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 27 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17102448 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP DETERMINATION FOR POINTS OF INTEREST | November 2020 | February 2021 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16535232 | Cross-Backup Application Diskless Data Migration | August 2019 | July 2021 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16372714 | REDUCTION IN TIME REQUIRED TO WRITE FILE TO TAPE | April 2019 | March 2021 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16370803 | DELIVERING CONTENT PROMOTING A WEB PAGE TO USERS OF AN ONLINE SYSTEM | March 2019 | October 2020 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16353535 | BULK-LOAD FOR B-TREES | March 2019 | March 2021 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16293450 | AGGREGATION APPARATUS, AGGREGATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2019 | June 2021 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16254499 | DATA ORIGIN VERIFICATION | January 2019 | December 2020 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16212924 | Automated Curation of Documents in a Corpus for a Cognitive Computing System | December 2018 | March 2021 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16210049 | DERIVED DATA DICTIONARY FOR OPTIMIZING TRANSFORMATIONS OF ENCODED DATA | December 2018 | February 2021 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16203889 | LIBRARY INDEXING SYSTEM AND METHOD | November 2018 | September 2019 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16171452 | MULTI STAGE AGGREGATION USING DIGEST ORDER AFTER A FIRST STAGE OF AGGREGATION | October 2018 | June 2020 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16162514 | FILESYSTEM USING HARDWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY ON NON-VOLATILE DUAL IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE | October 2018 | May 2021 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16142653 | RESTORING DATA IN A HIERARCHICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | September 2018 | October 2019 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16142732 | METADATA RECOVERY FOR DE-DUPLICATED DATA | September 2018 | November 2019 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16140512 | PREDICTING NEED TO RENAME OBSCURELY NAMED DOCUMENTS | September 2018 | September 2020 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16046146 | DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN MULTIPLE DATABASES | July 2018 | October 2018 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16038301 | SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON A SEARCH HISTORY | July 2018 | October 2018 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16066719 | METHOD FOR NAVIGATING THROUGH A SET OF IMAGES | June 2018 | March 2021 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15899635 | DISTANCE-BASED SOCIAL MESSAGE PRUNING | February 2018 | June 2018 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15899580 | DISTANCE-BASED SOCIAL MESSAGE PRUNING | February 2018 | June 2018 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15660715 | COGNITIVE FILE AND OBJECT MANAGEMENT FOR DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ENVIRONMENTS | July 2017 | September 2020 | Allow | 37 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15614607 | FACILITATING SELLING AND VALIDATING DIGITAL RESOURCES | June 2017 | November 2019 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15613469 | RELATION EXTRACTION USING Q&A | June 2017 | September 2019 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15492240 | REDUCTION IN TIME REQUIRED TO WRITE FILE TO TAPE | April 2017 | February 2019 | Allow | 22 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15426993 | LOCATION AND ORIENTATION BASED DIGITAL MEDIA SEARCH | February 2017 | June 2019 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15350584 | SOFTWARE DEFINED ENTITIES FOR DIGITAL SERVICE TRANSACTIONS | November 2016 | October 2019 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15288264 | DISTANCE-BASED SOCIAL MESSAGE PRUNING | October 2016 | March 2019 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15236475 | TRANSACTIONAL LOCK ELISION WITH DELAYED LOCK CHECKING | August 2016 | December 2018 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15187995 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, SEARCHING METHOD, AND SEARCHING DEVICE | June 2016 | January 2020 | Allow | 42 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15188019 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING INTENT OF USER BASED ON GAZE INFORMATION | June 2016 | December 2018 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14549217 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING FINANCIAL DATA | November 2014 | September 2018 | Allow | 46 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14514795 | DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING OF DATA RECORDS | October 2014 | July 2019 | Allow | 57 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 13264733 | METHOD FOR SEARCHING OBJECTS IN A DATABASE | October 2011 | July 2014 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner TRAN, LOC.
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, 0.0% 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 TRAN, LOC works in Art Unit 2164 and has examined 33 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 100.0%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 26 months.
Examiner TRAN, LOC's allowance rate of 100.0% places them in the 94% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by TRAN, LOC receive 1.18 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 14% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by TRAN, LOC is 26 months. This places the examiner in the 75% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +0.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by TRAN, LOC. This interview benefit is in the 13% 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, 41.7% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 93% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 25.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 34% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows below-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. You may need to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry.
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 6% 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 50.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 16% 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, 50.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 46% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show below-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing.
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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