USPTO Examiner MCINTOSH ANDREW T - Art Unit 2176

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
17134780SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOMAIN AWARE DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION AND INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM CONSUMER DOCUMENTSDecember 2020November 2023Allow3531YesNo
17134964TABLE ITEM INFORMATION EXTRACTION WITH CONTINUOUS MACHINE LEARNING THROUGH LOCAL AND GLOBAL MODELSDecember 2020May 2022Allow1720NoNo
17134299ITERATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND/OR SCALABLE DEPLOYMENT OF A SPREADSHEET-BASED FORMULA ALGORITHMDecember 2020April 2022Allow1610NoNo
17129442OBJECT TIME SERIES SYSTEMDecember 2020November 2021Allow1100YesNo
17252811METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENOME SPELLING CORRECTION AND ACRONYM STANDARDIZATIONDecember 2020November 2022Abandon2320NoNo
17117995Dynamic Feature NamesDecember 2020May 2024Allow4220YesNo
16973051HANDWRITING INPUT DISPLAY APPARATUS, HANDWRITING INPUT DISPLAY METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAMDecember 2020October 2021Allow1110NoNo
17112798SAAS FOR CONTENT CURATION WITHOUT A BROWSER ADD-ONDecember 2020August 2023Allow3200YesNo
17112544HIGHLIGHTING CONTENT PORTIONS OF SEARCH RESULTS WITHOUT A CLIENT ADD-ONDecember 2020July 2023Allow3110YesNo
17101651INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAMNovember 2020September 2021Allow1010NoNo
17098468METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING EFFICIENT PRODUCT SURFACE DEFECT DETECTION MODEL BASED ON NETWORK COLLABORATIVE PRUNINGNovember 2020January 2024Allow3810NoNo
17094554TOKENIZATION OF TEXT DATA TO FACILITATE AUTOMATED DISCOVERY OF SPEECH DISFLUENCIESNovember 2020April 2023Allow2940NoNo
17084857AUTOMATIC BOT CREATION BASED ON SCRIPTSOctober 2020January 2024Allow3910YesNo
17073258MULTI-DIMENSIONAL LANGUAGE STYLE TRANSFEROctober 2020June 2022Allow2000YesNo
17071285AUTOMATED MACHINE LEARNING PIPELINE FOR TIMESERIES DATASETS UTILIZING POINT-BASED ALGORITHMSOctober 2020April 2024Allow4220YesNo
17070520Collaborative Learning Model for Semiconductor ApplicationsOctober 2020April 2024Allow4210NoNo
17063663Visually Correlating Individual Terms in Natural Language Input to Respective Structured Phrases Representing the Natural Language InputOctober 2020December 2021Allow1420YesNo
17036005SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINE ASSISTED DOCUMENTATION IN MEDICAL WRITINGSeptember 2020July 2022Allow2210NoNo
17042060A CRAWLER OF WEB AUTOMATION SCRIPTSSeptember 2020February 2024Allow4020YesNo
17041517MALFUNCTION DETECTION DEVICE AND MALFUNCTION DETECTION METHODSeptember 2020June 2024Allow4520YesNo
17030578TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING TYPE OF INPUT METHOD EDITORSeptember 2020June 2023Abandon3310NoNo
17026721SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CREDIBILITY OF CONTENT IN A NUMBER OF DOCUMENTSSeptember 2020July 2021Allow1000NoNo
17017567STAGE-SPECIFIC PIPELINE VIEW USING PREDICTION ENGINESeptember 2020July 2023Allow3410NoNo
17012380HYPERLINK PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUSSeptember 2020January 2022Allow1620YesNo
17008672SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE GENERATION AND EDITING OF TEXT CONTENT IN WEBSITE BUILDING SYSTEMSSeptember 2020April 2023Allow3110NoNo
16977349INFERENTIAL DEVICE, CONVOLUTIONAL OPERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAMSeptember 2020January 2024Allow4110NoNo
16976913SENTENCE MATCHING SYSTEMAugust 2020August 2022Abandon2430YesNo
16998479GENERATING CUSTOM APPLICATION LINKSAugust 2020March 2023Allow3010NoNo
16986142Automatically Assigning Semantic Role Labels to Parts of DocumentsAugust 2020July 2022Allow2420YesNo
16920785GENERATION OF A CHATBOTJuly 2020October 2022Allow2720YesNo
16916121Machine Learning in Video Classification with Schedule HighlightingJune 2020April 2022Allow2110NoNo
16958888System and Method for Domain-Independent Terminology LinkingJune 2020October 2023Allow4020NoYes
16913711METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING A REFERENCE DATA STRUCTURE FOR ANONYMIZATION OF TEXT DATAJune 2020December 2021Allow1810NoNo
16903098DEVELOPER AND RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTS SUPPORTING MULTI-INPUT MODALITIESJune 2020August 2022Allow2620YesNo
16884619NATURAL LANGUAGE EXPLANATION FOR CLASSIFIER PREDICTIONSMay 2020February 2023Allow3210YesNo
16872113Interactive Scheduling, Visualization, and Tracking of ActivitiesMay 2020July 2023Allow3821NoNo
16871147DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUMMay 2020April 2023Allow3510NoNo
16867659APPLICATION OF A SPREADSHEET FORMULA ALGORITHM AGAINST A DATASET SUCH AS A LARGE EXTERNAL DATA SOURCEMay 2020October 2020Allow510NoNo
16760003TECHNIQUE FOR GENERATING AND UTILIZING VIRTUAL FINGERPRINT REPRESENTING TEXT DATAApril 2020April 2022Allow2410NoNo
16758462CAUSE-EFFECT SENTENCE ANALYSIS DEVICE, CAUSE-EFFECT SENTENCE ANALYSIS SYSTEM, PROGRAM, AND CAUSE-EFFECT SENTENCE ANALYSIS METHODApril 2020December 2023Allow4430YesNo
16853771DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAMApril 2020March 2024Allow4630NoNo
16847107ADVERTISEMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ADVERTISEMENT PROCESSING METHOD FOR ADVERTISEMENT PROCESSING APPARATUSApril 2020December 2022Abandon3210NoNo
16841956COMPLEX SYSTEM FOR KNOWLEDGE LAYOUT FACILITATED EPICENTER ACTIVE EVENT RESPONSE CONTROLApril 2020August 2022Allow2800NoNo
16829041INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODMarch 2020November 2021Allow1910NoNo
16823054SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING A DYNAMIC ELECTRONIC FORMMarch 2020March 2022Allow2400NoNo
16811823DYNAMIC HEURISTIC PACKAGES AND METRICS FOR NETWORK ASSURANCE USING A DEEP FUSION REASONING ENGINEMarch 2020February 2023Allow3520YesNo
16737489EXTRACTING IMPORTANT SENTENCES FROM DOCUMENTS TO ANSWER HYPOTHESIS THAT INCLUDE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCESJanuary 2020June 2022Allow3010YesNo
16728991SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED CONVERSATIONS WITH FEEDBACK SYSTEMS, TUNING AND CONTEXT DRIVEN TRAININGDecember 2019March 2023Abandon3911NoNo
16718081MULTI-SEGMENT TEXT SEARCH USING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL FOR TEXT SIMILARITYDecember 2019December 2021Allow2410NoNo
16716402MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR ANALYZING TEXTUAL CONTENTDecember 2019August 2022Allow3220YesNo
16715504METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING ANOMALIES IN MISSION CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTS USING WORD REPRESENTATION LEARNINGDecember 2019October 2022Allow3430YesNo
16713062METHOD, APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE AND READABLE MEDIUM FOR KNOWLEDGE HIERARCHICAL EXTRACTION OF A TEXTDecember 2019October 2022Allow3410NoNo
16711008WORD EXTRACTION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND WORD EXTRACTION ASSISTANCE METHODDecember 2019March 2022Allow2720NoNo
16702610THIRD PARTY APPLICATION COMMUNICATION APIDecember 2019December 2020Allow1220NoNo
16696438SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRACTING AND IMPLEMENTING DOCUMENT TEXT ACCORDING TO PREDETERMINED FORMATSNovember 2019July 2022Abandon3211NoNo
16690160INTELLIGENT ISSUE ANALYTICSNovember 2019May 2024Abandon5340YesNo
16684356AUTOMATIC BOT CREATION BASED ON SCRIPTSNovember 2019July 2020Allow810NoNo
16680352SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A KNOWLEDGE-BASED FORM CREATION PLATFORMNovember 2019February 2022Allow2720YesNo
16679809MULTI-USE RESOURCE INTERACTION INTERFACE PROJECTION SYSTEMNovember 2019March 2021Allow1600NoNo
16672804FONT PERSONALIZATIONNovember 2019June 2022Allow3120YesNo
16667066NATURAL LANGUAGE POLISHING USING VECTOR SPACES HAVING RELATIVE SIMILARITY VECTORSOctober 2019December 2021Allow2610YesNo
16543364CASCADING MENUS FOR REMOTE POPPINGAugust 2019September 2021Allow2520NoNo
16543136SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED DATA VERIFICATIONAugust 2019October 2021Allow2610YesNo
16536169SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSFORMING UNSTRUCTURED NUMERICAL INFORMATION INTO A STRUCTURED FORMATAugust 2019February 2022Allow3010YesNo
16523144CONTEXT-INFUSED ONTOLOGY FOR KNOWLEDGE MODELSJuly 2019March 2023Abandon4311NoNo
16522536Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Touch Input ProcessingJuly 2019October 2021Allow2710NoNo
16506176PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR PROCESSING PORTIONJuly 2019July 2023Allow4830NoNo
16457220SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOPERATIVE TEXT RECOMMENDATION ACCEPTANCE IN A USER INTERFACEJune 2019November 2020Allow1710YesNo
16453975SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDACTING CONTENTJune 2019August 2021Abandon2610NoNo
16425040PARAPHRASING TEXT IN A WEBPAGEMay 2019December 2022Allow4240NoNo
16411809SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING A RISK OF IMPLIEDLY OVERRULED CONTENT BASED ON CITATIONALLY RELATED CONTENTMay 2019November 2022Allow4220NoNo
16410964INFINITE-LOOP DETECTOR FOR DYNAMIC WEBSITES AND APPLICATIONSMay 2019September 2021Allow2810YesNo
16406589CURATION RANK: CONTENT PORTION SEARCHMay 2019December 2020Allow1901YesNo
16402856SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ONLINE INTERFACES FOR HIERARCHICALLY ARRANGED USER-GENERATED CONTENTMay 2019September 2021Allow2820YesNo
16391172GENERATING A STRUCTURED DOCUMENT GUIDING VIEWApril 2019October 2020Allow1820NoNo
16386652DOCUMENT TYPE-SPECIFIC QUALITY MODELApril 2019April 2023Allow4830YesNo
16387392OBJECT TIME SERIES SYSTEMApril 2019October 2020Allow1800YesNo
16383606STRADDLING SYSTOLIC RULETREEApril 2019November 2022Allow4340NoNo
16380628CAPTIVE PORTAL THAT MODIFIES CONTENT RETRIEVED FROM REQUESTED WEB PAGE FOR UNAUTHORIZED CLIENT DEVICESApril 2019June 2021Allow2610NoNo
16374567USER WIDGET DISPLAYING PORTIONS OF CONTENTApril 2019November 2020Allow2000NoNo
16359739METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING THE DISPLAY AND EDITING OF OOXML DOCUMENT CONTENT USING A WEB BROWSERMarch 2019May 2022Allow3720YesNo
16354017HIGHLIGHTING ON A PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT, MOBILE HANDSET, EBOOK, OR HANDHELD DEVICEMarch 2019October 2020Allow2000YesNo
16333103DEVICE, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR ANNOTATING TEXTMarch 2019August 2020Allow1710YesNo
16283135SYSTEM AND METHOD OF HIGHLIGHTING INFLUENTIAL SAMPLES IN SEQUENTIAL ANALYSISFebruary 2019January 2021Allow2310NoNo
16280099System and Process of Prediction Through The Use of Latent Semantic IndexingFebruary 2019October 2022Abandon4410NoNo
16272692TABLE ITEM INFORMATION EXTRACTION WITH CONTINUOUS MACHINE LEARNING THROUGH LOCAL AND GLOBAL MODELSFebruary 2019September 2020Allow1910NoNo
16265467HYBRID INTERACTIVITY IN JAVASCRIPT WEBPAGE USER INTERFACESFebruary 2019September 2020Allow1910YesNo
16261434Using Combined eCommerce and Brick-and-mortar Data to Produce Intelligent Recommendations for Web Page EditingJanuary 2019April 2019Allow300NoNo
16319430A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTILINGUAL CONVERSION OF TEXT DATA TO SPEECH DATAJanuary 2019January 2022Allow3510NoNo
16240289VIDEO READER WITH MUSIC WORD LEARNING FEATUREJanuary 2019July 2022Allow4210NoNo
16235919SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC SUMMARIZATION OF CONTENTDecember 2018January 2021Allow2410NoNo
16222667DATA FLOW VIEW FOR A SPREADSHEETDecember 2018June 2020Allow1820YesNo
16216870GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR INTERACTIVE CONTENT PRESENTATIONDecember 2018August 2020Allow2110YesNo
16210845ADAPTIVE DATA PLATFORMSDecember 2018June 2021Allow3030YesNo
16155877Creating Cost Models Using Standard Templates and Key-Value Pair Differential AnalysisOctober 2018November 2020Allow2520YesNo
16152553ASPECT-DRIVEN MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATIONOctober 2018June 2021Allow3220NoNo
16150262DATA ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF A DATASET THROUGH ALGORITHM EXTRAPOLATION FROM A SPREADSHEET FORMULAOctober 2018February 2020Allow1600NoNo
16135571TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING TYPE OF INPUT METHOD EDITORSeptember 2018July 2020Allow2210YesNo
16055029ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMMUNICATION ASSISTANCE FOR COMPOSITION UTILIZING COMMUNICATION PROFILESAugust 2018December 2021Allow4140YesNo
16002612Generating a Document Object Model (DOM) DifferentialJune 2018July 2020Allow2520YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner MCINTOSH, ANDREW T.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
13
Examiner Affirmed
10
(76.9%)
Examiner Reversed
3
(23.1%)
Reversal Percentile
36.8%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 23.1% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges here than typical.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
30
Allowed After Appeal Filing
5
(16.7%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
25
(83.3%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
20.8%
Lower than average

Understanding Appeal Filing Strategy

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, 16.7% 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.

Strategic Recommendations

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 MCINTOSH, ANDREW T - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner MCINTOSH, ANDREW T works in Art Unit 2176 and has examined 361 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 68.4%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 35 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner MCINTOSH, ANDREW T's allowance rate of 68.4% places them in the 31% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by MCINTOSH, ANDREW T receive 2.49 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 68% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by MCINTOSH, ANDREW T is 35 months. This places the examiner in the 39% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +24.3% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by MCINTOSH, ANDREW T. This interview benefit is in the 69% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 21.3% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 27% 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.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 33.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 51% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows above-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. If your amendments clearly overcome the rejections and do not raise new issues, consider filing after-final amendments before resorting to an RCE.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 10.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 25% 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.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 51.9% of appeals filed. This is in the 23% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 28.6% 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.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 32.4% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 19% 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 Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.3% of allowed cases (in the 53% 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 14% percentile). This examiner rarely issues Quayle actions compared to other examiners. Allowances typically come directly without a separate action for formal matters.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:

    Relevant MPEP Sections for Prosecution Strategy

    • MPEP § 713.10: Examiner interviews - available before Notice of Allowance or transfer to PTAB
    • MPEP § 714.12: After-final amendments - may be entered "under justifiable circumstances"
    • MPEP § 1002.02(c): Petitionable matters to Technology Center Director
    • MPEP § 1004: Actions requiring primary examiner signature (allowances, final rejections, examiner's answers)
    • MPEP § 1207.01: Appeal conferences - mandatory for all appeals
    • MPEP § 1214.07: Reopening prosecution after appeal

    Important Disclaimer

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