Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18739272 | TWO-LEVEL ARBITRATION IN A COMPUTING SYSTEM | June 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18670721 | PROCESSORS, METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND INSTRUCTIONS TO ATOMICALLY STORE TO MEMORY DATA WIDER THAN A NATIVELY SUPPORTED DATA WIDTH | May 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18618648 | SUPPORTING 8-BIT FLOATING POINT FORMAT OPERANDS IN A COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE | March 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18602924 | NEURAL PROCESSING DEVICE, PROCESSING ELEMENT INCLUDED THEREIN AND METHOD FOR OPERATING VARIOUS FORMATS OF NEURAL PROCESSING DEVICE | March 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18601640 | Atomic Operation Predictor to Predict Whether An Atomic Operation Will Complete Successfully | March 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18400560 | WORKFLOW EXECUTION STATE VARIABLES | December 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18393825 | CONTROL OF INSTRUCTION ISSUE BASED ON ISSUE GROUPS | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18393657 | PROCESSOR-GUIDED EXECUTION OF OFFLOADED INSTRUCTIONS USING FIXED FUNCTION OPERATIONS | December 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18532502 | APPARATUS AND METHODS RELATED TO MICROCODE INSTRUCTIONS INDICATING INSTRUCTION TYPES | December 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18522822 | PROCESSOR FOR CONFIGURABLE PARALLEL COMPUTATIONS | November 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18502291 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INSTRUCTIONS TO ACCELERATE MULTIPLICATION OF SPARSE MATRICES USING BITMASKS THAT IDENTIFY NON-ZERO ELEMENTS | November 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18382938 | HIERARCHICAL NETWORKS ON CHIP (NOC) FOR NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR | October 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18484582 | Hardware Verification of Dynamically Generated Code | October 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18473119 | EXECUTION UNIT SHARING BETWEEN PROCESSING CORES IN A CLUSTER OF A SYSTEM-ON-CHIP (SOC) | September 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18459241 | NEURAL PROCESSING DEVICE, PROCESSING ELEMENT INCLUDED THEREIN AND METHOD FOR OPERATING VARIOUS FORMATS OF NEURAL PROCESSING DEVICE | August 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18454173 | A METHOD FOR FETCHING ENCRYPTED INSTRUCTIONS, DECODING AND EXECUTING DECRYPTED INSTRUCTIONS, AND COMPARING INSTRUCTION SIGNATURES TO ENSURE EXECUTION INTEGRITY | August 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18231024 | RECONFIGURABLE NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING BASED ON SUBGRAPH RECOGNITION | August 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18364971 | MULTI-CARD PROCESSOR ACCESS FRAMEWORK | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18350197 | REDUCING DATA FORMAT CONVERSION OF AN ACCELERATOR | July 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18326255 | HYBRID MODEL FOR TIME SERIES DATA PROCESSING | May 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18198387 | Transposing At-Speed in a Vector-Matrix Accelerator | May 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18197506 | HIERARCHICAL NETWORKS ON CHIP (NOC) FOR NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR | May 2023 | August 2023 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18196418 | OVERLAY LAYER HARDWARE UNIT FOR NETWORK OF PROCESSOR CORES | May 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18195776 | MULTIPLE SYSTEM-ON-CHIP ARRANGEMENT FOR VEHICLE COMPUTING SYSTEMS | May 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18129808 | PROCESSOR CORES USING CONTENT OBJECT IDENTIFIERS FOR ROUTING AND COMPUTATION | March 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18128852 | Apparatus and Method for Temperature-Constrained Frequency Control and Scheduling | March 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18175281 | INSTRUCTION OFFLOAD TO PROCESSOR CORES IN ATTACHED MEMORY | February 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18172702 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PROCESS ASYNCHRONOUS AND DISTRIBUTED TRAINING TASKS | February 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18107690 | Two-Level Arbitration in a Reconfigurable Processor | February 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18105189 | Reconfigurable Data Processor with Fast Argument Load using a Runtime Program on a Host Processor | February 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18105187 | Fast Argument Load in a Reconfigurable Data Processor | February 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18017538 | MESSAGE-BASED PROCESSING WITH ASSIGNMENT OF NEURAL NETWORK LAYERS TO PROCESSOR CLUSTERS | January 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18151009 | HARDWARE ACCELERATED ANOMALY DETECTION USING A MIN/MAX COLLECTOR IN A SYSTEM ON A CHIP | January 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18086458 | Multi-Threaded Processor with Power Granularity and Thread Granularity | December 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18064520 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROCESSING ARRAY WITH A VERTICALLY STACKED MEMORY TILE ARRAY | December 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18061539 | FAST MAPPER RESTORE FOR FLUSH IN PROCESSOR | December 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18054401 | Fence Enforcement Techniques based on Stall Characteristics | November 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17983432 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONVERSION PROGRAM AND CONVERSION METHOD | November 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17973430 | CARRY CHAIN FOR SIMD OPERATIONS | October 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18046151 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM | October 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17961158 | DETECTING REAL-TIME CLOCK LOSS | October 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17958381 | APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR INSTRUCTIONS FOR STRUCTURED-SPARSE TILE MATRIX FMA | October 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17932883 | INDIRECT BRANCH PREDICTOR STORING ENCRYPTED BRANCH INFORMATION FIELDS | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17945492 | MICROPROCESSOR INCLUDING A DECODE UNIT THAT PERFORMS PRE-EXECUTION OF LOAD CONSTANT MICRO-OPERATIONS | September 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17945045 | OVERLAY LAYER FOR NETWORK OF PROCESSOR CORES | September 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17905225 | DECOUPLED ACCESS-EXECUTE PROCESSING AND PREFETCHING CONTROL | August 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17816449 | AUTOMATED ORCHESTRATION OF LARGE-SCALE FLOW LOG TRANSFORMATION | August 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17867832 | SYNCHRONIZING COPROCESSORS USING SYNCHRONIZATION INSTRUCTIONS TO FORCE A SECOND COPROCESSOR TO WAIT UNTIL RECEIVING AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT SIGNAL FROM A FIRST COPROCESSOR | July 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17866345 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-BRANCH ROUTING FOR INTERCONNECTED CHIP NETWORKS | July 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17859377 | POWER EFFICIENT MULTI-BIT STORAGE SYSTEM | July 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17758129 | Accelerator Controller for Inserting Template Microcode Instructions into a Microcode Buffer to Accelerate Matrix Operations | June 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17835746 | System on Chip Including a Reconfigurable Connection Interface Between Master Devices and Slave Devices | June 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17827882 | PROCESSORS, METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND INSTRUCTIONS TO ATOMICALLY STORE TO MEMORY DATA WIDER THAN A NATIVELY SUPPORTED DATA WIDTH | May 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17824775 | MATRIX PROCESSING INSTRUCTION WITH OPTIONAL UP/DOWN SAMPLING OF MATRIX | May 2022 | January 2024 | Abandon | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17749268 | SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA EXECUTION WITH VARIABLE SIZE LOGICAL REGISTERS | May 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17778091 | SYSTEM-ON-CHIP WITH A PLURALITY OF CHIPS COMMUNICATING WIRELESSLY USING HORIZONTAL INDUCTIVE COUPLING | May 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17744371 | STOCHASTIC HYPERDIMENSIONAL ARITHMETIC COMPUTING | May 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17661696 | BRANCH PREDICTOR STORING ENCRYPTED INFORMATION | May 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17720322 | Acceleration System and Dynamic Configuration Method Thereof | April 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17754739 | CO-SCHEDULED LOADS IN A DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS | April 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17707176 | TECHNIQUES, DEVICES, AND INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE FOR EFFICIENT MODULAR DIVISION AND INVERSION | March 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17656058 | GENERATING MASKS FROM DECODED INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLY TO FETCHED INSTRUCTIONS FOR UNMASKING | March 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 31 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17696137 | HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE CO-DESIGNED SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED CONTROL OF EXECUTION ON A COMPUTE ACCELERATOR | March 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17691615 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL EXECUTION LANE FOR IMAGE PROCESSOR | March 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17686003 | PROCESSOR CORES USING PACKET IDENTIFIERS FOR ROUTING AND COMPUTATION | March 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17673712 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES TO PERFORM A COMPUTE OPERATION ACCORDING TO A CONFIGURATION PACKET AND COMPARING THE RESULT TO DATA IN LOCAL MEMORY | February 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17672116 | FINE-GRAINED MULTITHREADED CORES EXECUTING FUSED OPERATIONS IN MULTIPLE CLOCK CYCLES | February 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17665991 | Dynamic Designation of Instructions as Sensitive for Constraining Instruction Execution | February 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17590470 | MICROARCHITECTURAL MECHANISMS FOR THE PREVENTION OF SIDE-CHANNEL ATTACKS USING A THREAD IDENTIFICATION (TID) AND A PRIVILEGE LEVEL BIT | February 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17580866 | POWER EFFICIENT MEMORY VALUE UPDATES FOR ARM ARCHITECTURES | January 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17570863 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY REPROCESSING VIDEO STREAMS BASED ON SYSTEM RESOURCES AND STREAM STATUS | January 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17560685 | DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTION (DPD) ADAPTATION USING A HYBRID HARDWARE ACCELERATOR AND PROGRAMMABLE ARRAY ARCHITECTURE | December 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 37 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17560363 | HARDENING CPU PREDICTORS WITH CRYPTOGRAPHIC COMPUTING CONTEXT INFORMATION | December 2021 | April 2024 | Abandon | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17534536 | REDUCING DATA FORMAT CONVERSION OF AN ACCELERATOR | November 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17520861 | VISION PROCESSING ACCELERATOR WITH LOW LATENCY IMAGE DISTORTION PROCESSING PIPELINES | November 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17511800 | MULTI-CHIP PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDING ROUTING PATH INFORMATION INTO HEADERS OF PACKETS | October 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17510198 | Splitting Vector Instructions Into Microinstructions For Parallel Execution Based On Index Comparisons Of Completed Microinstructions | October 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17508723 | STREAMING ENGINE WITH SHORT CUT START INSTRUCTIONS | October 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17485055 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INSTRUCTIONS TO ACCELERATE MULTIPLICATION OF SPARSE MATRICES USING BITMASKS THAT IDENTIFY NON-ZERO ELEMENTS | September 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17481448 | GATHERING PAYLOAD FROM ARBITRARY REGISTERS FOR SEND MESSAGES IN A GRAPHICS ENVIRONMENT | September 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17447562 | WORKFLOW EXECUTION STATE VARIABLES | September 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17473076 | Atomic Operation Predictor to Predict Whether An Atomic Operation Will Complete Successfully | September 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17471400 | SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING NEW INSTRUCTIONS AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING NEW INSTRUCTIONS | September 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17471156 | OPPORTUNISTIC WRITE-BACK DISCARD OF SINGLE-USE VECTOR REGISTER VALUES | September 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17467890 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PARTITIONING NEURAL NETWORK DATA | September 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 45 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17459935 | NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR WITH TYPE CONVERSION UNITS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | August 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17410729 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REACTIVE FLATTENING MAP FOR USE WITH A MICROSERVICES OR OTHER COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | August 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17409090 | LOOP DRIVEN REGION BASED FRONTEND TRANSLATION CONTROL FOR PERFORMANT AND SECURE DATA-SPACE GUIDED MICRO-SEQUENCING | August 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 38 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17402828 | INDEXING EXTERNAL MEMORY IN A RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTE FABRIC | August 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17401890 | FIXED-SIZE POOL STORAGE FOR HANDLING OUT-OF ORDER RECEIPT OF DATA | August 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17396865 | SHARED UNIT INSTRUCTION EXECUTION | August 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17391425 | HARDWARE ACCELERATED ANOMALY DETECTION USING A MIN/MAX COLLECTOR IN A SYSTEM ON A CHIP | August 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17388666 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A PERFORMANT AND RESOURCE-EFFICIENT MICROARCHITECTURE | July 2021 | August 2022 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17382287 | Toroidal Systolic Array Processor for General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) With Local Dot Product Output Accumulation | July 2021 | August 2024 | Abandon | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17305682 | Routing in a Network of Processors | July 2021 | November 2022 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17372841 | APPARATUS AND METHODS RELATED TO MICROCODE INSTRUCTIONS INDICATING INSTRUCTION TYPES | July 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17372771 | 3-LEVEL REAL-TIME CONCURRENT PRODUCTION OPERATION WORKGROUP SYSTEMS FOR FINE-GRAINED PROACTIVE CLOSED LOOP PROBLEM SOLVING OPERATIONS | July 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17364780 | ACCELERATED PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF SHARING DATA FOR MACHINE LEARNING | June 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 47 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17361655 | MANAGING DISCOVERED CHIPLETS BASED ON PHYSICAL TOPOLOGY | June 2021 | March 2022 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17361992 | RECONFIGURABLE NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING BASED ON SUBGRAPH RECOGNITION | June 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner PETRANEK, JACOB ANDREW.
With a 31.1% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges 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, 30.5% 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 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 PETRANEK, JACOB ANDREW works in Art Unit 2183 and has examined 883 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 79.2%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 40 months.
Examiner PETRANEK, JACOB ANDREW's allowance rate of 79.2% places them in the 40% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by PETRANEK, JACOB ANDREW receive 2.51 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 85% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues more office actions than most examiners, which may indicate thorough examination or difficulty in reaching agreement with applicants.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by PETRANEK, JACOB ANDREW is 40 months. This places the examiner in the 8% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +6.6% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by PETRANEK, JACOB ANDREW. This interview benefit is in the 35% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 26.2% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 33% 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 20.7% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 18% 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, 27.9% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 28% 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 59.5% of appeals filed. This is in the 29% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 24.2% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner shows below-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. Be prepared to fully prosecute appeals if filed.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 47.3% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 55% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show above-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Petitionable matters include restriction requirements (MPEP § 1002.02(c)(2)) and various procedural issues.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 4.8% of allowed cases (in the 89% percentile). Per MPEP § 1302.04, examiner's amendments are used to place applications in condition for allowance when only minor changes are needed. This examiner frequently uses this tool compared to other examiners, indicating a cooperative approach to getting applications allowed. Strategic Insight: If you are close to allowance but minor claim amendments are needed, this examiner may be willing to make an examiner's amendment rather than requiring another round of prosecution.
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 9.7% of allowed cases (in the 87% 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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