Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19182575 | METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING MULTI-CYCLE PRESSURE-SEPARATED WATER INJECTION IN OILFIELDS BASED ON IMPROVED BUTTERFLY ALGORITHMS | April 2025 | September 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19066395 | WELL PATTERN OPTIMIZATION METHOD BASED ON CO2 INCOMPLETE MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT CHARACTERISTICS | February 2025 | December 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18765781 | FAULT INTERPRETATION AND FEATURE LEARNING ON FULL AZIMUTH STACKS | July 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18609468 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING STABILITY OF TUNNEL SURROUNDING ROCK CONSIDERING CREEP CHARACTERISTICS OF STRUCTURAL PLANE | March 2024 | May 2024 | Allow | 2 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18426270 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF REFRIGERANT LEAKS | January 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18484014 | Petro-Technical Global Fluid Identity Repository | October 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18471111 | Frozen Boundary Multi-Domain Parallel Mesh Generation | September 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18095515 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSPECTION AND METROLOGY | January 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 22 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17881006 | Computer-Assisted Design Method for Mechatronic Systems | August 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17758812 | AUTOMATIC MODEL SELECTION THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING | July 2022 | March 2026 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17743490 | CIRCUIT SIMULATION METHOD AND CIRCUIT SIMULATION SYSTEM | May 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 38 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17741705 | COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY BASED ON VEHICLE MAINTENANCE | May 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17642307 | METHOD FOR SELF-LEARNING MANUFACTURING SCHEDULING FOR A FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM BY USING A STATE MATRIX AND DEVICE | March 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17692724 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING A GEOPHYSICAL MODEL OF A SUBTERRANEAN REGION OF INTEREST | March 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17685752 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING INFRASTRUCTURE IMPACTS TO ELECTRICITY GRID GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS | March 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 39 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17595939 | FLOW CONTROL DEVICE OPENINGS FOR COMPLETION DESIGN | November 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17537864 | COMMAND LINE INTERFACE | November 2021 | July 2025 | Allow | 44 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17506347 | ACCELERATION OF SUBSURFACE SIMULATION USING FILTERED GRID CONNECTIVITY GRAPH | October 2021 | August 2025 | Allow | 46 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17601022 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS | October 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17465207 | REPRESENTATIVE PART, METHODS OF DESIGNING REPRESENTATIVE PARTS, METHODS OF FORMING AND TESTING REPRESENTATIVE PARTS, AND METHODS OF QUALIFYING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS | September 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 44 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17411760 | PARAMETERIZED OBJECT CONTROLLERS IN DRIVING SIMULATIONS | August 2021 | August 2025 | Allow | 48 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17400275 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL FULL FIELD DEVELOPMENT OPTIMIZATION GUIDED BY VARIABILITY IN WELL PLACEMENT AND CONFIGURATION | August 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 46 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17395037 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING AND USING A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA MATRIX TO IDENTIFY AN OPTIMUM ROTARY STEERABLE SYSTEM SETTING | August 2021 | July 2025 | Allow | 47 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17382841 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELING MEMORY DEVICES WITH LATENCY | July 2021 | October 2025 | Allow | 51 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17378980 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR ONE-ENGINE-INOPERATIVE TRAINING IN AIRCRAFT WITH DISSIMILAR ENGINES | July 2021 | October 2025 | Allow | 51 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17373937 | METHOD FOR UPDATING A DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTOMATION SYSTEM | July 2021 | December 2025 | Allow | 53 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17371900 | DRIVING SIMULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 46 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17370278 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESERVOIR HISTORY MATCHING QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND VISUALIZATION | July 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17364400 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF ACCIDENTS | June 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 45 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17338990 | OPTIMAL ALLOCATION METHOD FOR STORED ENERGY COORDINATING ELECTRIC VEHICLES TO PARTICIPATE IN ANCILLARY SERVICE MARKET | June 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17299663 | PART PACKING WITH DIFFUSION AURAS | June 2021 | February 2026 | Allow | 56 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17298497 | AMPLIFICATION METHOD FOR METALLURGICAL PROCESS | May 2021 | January 2026 | Abandon | 56 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17321217 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING SHAPE OPTIMIZATION USING PHYSICS INFORMED BASIS FUNCTION | May 2021 | August 2025 | Allow | 51 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17243826 | FIELD PRODUCTION STRATEGY OPTIMIZATION USING MULTI-OBJECTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHM | April 2021 | February 2026 | Abandon | 58 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17285109 | System and method for simulating a rotational moulding process | April 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 49 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17211695 | DETERMINING IR DROP | March 2021 | September 2025 | Allow | 54 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17211670 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING A CONFIGURATION FOR ELECTRICALLY ISOLATING FAULT DOMAINS IN A DATA CENTER | March 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 50 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17197767 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SIMULATIONS | March 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 46 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17196735 | Automatic Ear Impression Classification | March 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17185700 | ANALYSIS APPARATUS, ANALYSIS METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | February 2021 | February 2026 | Allow | 59 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17177502 | AUTOMATIC ROBUST OPTIMIZATION OF CIRCUITS | February 2021 | March 2026 | Allow | 60 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17171150 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING MACHINE LEARNING FOR 3D GEO-MODELING OF PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS | February 2021 | March 2026 | Allow | 60 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17264450 | INTEGRATED CAPACITY MODELLING SYSTEM | January 2021 | December 2025 | Allow | 58 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17261545 | SETTING SUPPORT DEVICE | January 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 49 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17130039 | VIRTUAL TESTING OF AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SYSTEMS WITH THERMAL CAMERAS | December 2020 | November 2025 | Allow | 59 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17121042 | PHYSICS-DRIVEN DEEP LEARNING INVERSION COUPLED TO FLUID FLOW SIMULATORS | December 2020 | July 2025 | Allow | 55 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 17119765 | METHOD FOR UPDATING A STRATIGRAPHIC MODEL OF A SEDIMENTARY BASIN BASED ON MEASUREMENTS | December 2020 | January 2025 | Allow | 50 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17051853 | OBJECT ORIENTATION AND/OR POSITION FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | October 2020 | October 2024 | Allow | 47 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17063227 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IDENTIFY HIGH-IMPACT DISCRETE FRACTURE MODEL REALIZATIONS FOR ACCELERATED CALIBRATION OF RESERVOIR SIMULATION MODELS | October 2020 | August 2024 | Allow | 47 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17039415 | MULTI SURFACE PATTERNING DRIVEN BY CURVE(S) | September 2020 | October 2025 | Allow | 60 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17010368 | Determining Hydrocarbon Resource Characteristics Via Mud Logging | September 2020 | October 2024 | Allow | 50 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15733433 | FLEXIBLE GRADIENT-BASED RESERVOIR SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION | July 2020 | August 2024 | Allow | 49 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 16772794 | System and Method for Simulating Reservoir Models | June 2020 | April 2025 | Allow | 58 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16880319 | Systems and Methods for Mechanical Distortion Compensation | May 2020 | July 2023 | Abandon | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16878053 | MULTI-WELL INTERFERENCE CONTROL AND MITIGATION | May 2020 | February 2026 | Abandon | 60 | 6 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 16711739 | PROSPECTIVE KICK LOSS DETECTION FOR OFF-SHORE DRILLING | December 2019 | May 2022 | Allow | 29 | 6 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16536247 | EXTRACTING TEMPORAL SPECIFICATIONS OF FEATURES FOR FUNCTIONAL COMPATIBILITY AND INTEGRATION WITH OEMS | August 2019 | January 2025 | Allow | 60 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner JOHANSEN, JOHN E.
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 JOHANSEN, JOHN E works in Art Unit 2187 and has examined 42 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 90.5%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 50 months.
Examiner JOHANSEN, JOHN E's allowance rate of 90.5% places them in the 74% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by JOHANSEN, JOHN E receive 2.29 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 64% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by JOHANSEN, JOHN E is 50 months. This places the examiner in the 5% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +7.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by JOHANSEN, JOHN E. This interview benefit is in the 37% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 37.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 85% 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 7% 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 33.3% of appeals filed. This is in the 4% 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, 66.7% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 72% 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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 13% 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 15% 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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