Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15959261 | TRANSACTION CONTROLS FOR SUPPLYING CONTROL PLANE DATA TO MANAGED HARDWARE FORWARDING ELEMENT | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 60 | 8 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17134994 | CONVERGED RADIO FREQUENCY FRONT-END ARCHITECTURE | December 2020 | June 2024 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17129797 | CONTROL FOR MOBILITY CHANNEL PREDICTION | December 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17031853 | AUTOMATING 5G CORE NETWORK TESTING | September 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16981107 | BASE STATION, TERMINAL APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | September 2020 | June 2025 | Abandon | 57 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17014647 | UPLINK BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION OVER BROADBAND CELLULAR NETWORKS | September 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17002429 | RADIO-FREQUENCY CIRCUIT, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND RADIO-FREQUENCY CIRCUIT DESIGNING METHOD | August 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17001059 | VIRTUAL LDP SESSION | August 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 47 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16995496 | METHOD FOR DEPLOYING A BACKHAUL RADIO WITH ANTENNA ARRAY | August 2020 | January 2023 | Abandon | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16991851 | FAST ANTENNA SWITCHING | August 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16969019 | PHYSICAL UPLINK SHARED CHANNEL (PUSCH) FREQUENCY HOPPING ALLOCATION | August 2020 | September 2024 | Allow | 49 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16968496 | AUTOMATICALLY OPTIMIZING CELL PARAMETER OF SERVING BASE STATION | August 2020 | June 2024 | Allow | 46 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16963462 | INFORMATION REPORTING METHOD AND APPARATUS | July 2020 | May 2025 | Abandon | 58 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16887873 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORK BASED ON USER EQUIPMENT INFORMATION | May 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16872781 | FRONT-END CIRCUIT, DIVERSITY CIRCUIT, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE | May 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 41 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16870420 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPORTING UE (USER EQUIPMENT) CAPABILITY INFORMATION FOR SLRB (SIDELINK RADIO BEARER) CONFIGURATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | May 2020 | April 2023 | Allow | 35 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16862032 | EFFICIENT COMPUTING OF APPLICATION DATA IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK | April 2020 | July 2021 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16862486 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASUREMENT PROCESSING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | April 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16839435 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING NETWORK ENTRY PROCEDURE IN CLOUD CELL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | April 2020 | April 2024 | Abandon | 48 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16796665 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING SIDELINK AND UPLINK HARQ-ACK FEEDBACK IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | February 2020 | December 2020 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16617003 | MOBILE TERMINAL FOR EXPANDING BANDWIDTH OF LTE B41 FREQUENCY BAND, AND METHOD THEREOF | November 2019 | May 2022 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16586535 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOM ACCESS | September 2019 | January 2024 | Abandon | 51 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16586453 | MULTI-CHANNEL LISTEN BEFORE TALK WITH WIDEBAND TRANSMISSION IN NEW RADIO IN UNLICENSED SPECTRUM | September 2019 | November 2022 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16583473 | Measurement for Layer-1 Reference Signal Received Power (L1-RSRP) | September 2019 | April 2024 | Abandon | 55 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16583623 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRIGGER-BASED (TB) MULTI-USER (MU) UPLINK (UL) ORTHOGONAL-FREQUENCY-DIVISION-MULTIPLE-ACCESS (OFDMA) CONTROL FRAME TRANSMISSION | September 2019 | August 2024 | Allow | 59 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16582357 | MESSAGE 1 OF A TWO-STEP RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE | September 2019 | January 2023 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16582329 | PREFIX RANGE TO IDENTIFIER RANGE MAPPING | September 2019 | July 2023 | Allow | 45 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16582320 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LATENCY CERTIFICATION SERVICE | September 2019 | May 2022 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16497750 | PHYSICAL DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNELS (PDCCH) AND ENHANCED PDDCHS (EPDCCH) IN WIDEBAND COVERAGE ENHANCEMENT (WCE) ARRANGEMENTS | September 2019 | October 2023 | Abandon | 48 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16512291 | FACILITATING MANAGEMENT OF NETWORK RESOURCE ALLOCATION BASED ON DEVICE EFFECTIVE ISOTROPIC RADIATED POWER IN FIFTH GENERATION (5G) OR OTHER ADVANCED NETWORKS | July 2019 | March 2022 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16349351 | MEASUREMENT PERIOD SCALING BASED ON DEVICE CAPABILITIES FOR SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENTS | May 2019 | May 2021 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16349355 | HYBRID RELEASE FOR PROCESSING USER EQUIPMENT TRANSACTION | May 2019 | August 2022 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16349384 | Initial Bitrate Selection for a Video Delivery Session | May 2019 | April 2023 | Allow | 47 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16395837 | DOWNLINK ACTIVE SET MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT COMMUNICATIONS | April 2019 | February 2021 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16395274 | METHOD AND DEVICE IN UE AND BASE STATION USED FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | April 2019 | April 2022 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16345540 | METHOD AND USER EQUIPMENT FOR TRANSMITTING CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION | April 2019 | May 2022 | Allow | 37 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16345077 | METHOD FOR FEEDING BACK ACKNOWLEDGEMENT INFORMATION TO UNLICENSED TRANSMISSION, BASE STATION, AND USER EQUIPMENT | April 2019 | February 2021 | Abandon | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16391559 | Message Mapping via Frequency and/or Time Indexing | April 2019 | May 2022 | Allow | 37 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16361480 | DISTRIBUTED LOAD-BALANCING FOR SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS | March 2019 | October 2020 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16316706 | RESTORED FAIRNESS IN AN 802.11 NETWORK IMPLEMENTING RESOURCE UNITS | January 2019 | June 2021 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16315931 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING MBMS SERVICE BY TERMINAL AND DEVICE SUPPORTING SAME | January 2019 | November 2021 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16315251 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING WIRELESS SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | January 2019 | October 2022 | Allow | 46 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 16314803 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A WIRELESS ACCESS POINT | January 2019 | July 2021 | Allow | 31 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16164790 | Virtualized Cell Architecture | October 2018 | November 2022 | Allow | 49 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16148175 | DYNAMIC MEDIUM SWITCHING FOR HYBRID NETWORKS | October 2018 | August 2021 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16123830 | UPLINK BANDWIDTH ESTIMATION OVER BROADBAND CELLULAR NETWORKS | September 2018 | May 2020 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16055011 | SCHEDULED AND TRIGGERED MMW DISCOVERY ASSISTANCE BY LOWER BAND SIGNALING | August 2018 | October 2022 | Abandon | 50 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 16052915 | OVER THE AIR SYNCHRONIZATION FOR INTEGRATED ACCESS BACKHAUL RELAY NODES | August 2018 | August 2023 | Abandon | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16074887 | OPERATING A CELLULAR MIMO SYSTEM | August 2018 | March 2022 | Allow | 44 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16050641 | TIME DIVISION DUPLEXED (TDD) SERVICE PERIOD | July 2018 | September 2020 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16073707 | USER EQUIPMENT AND RECEPTION METHOD | July 2018 | August 2020 | Abandon | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16046945 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CLIENT DEVICE GROUPING FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN A WLAN | July 2018 | October 2021 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16046297 | CBG INDICATION WITH MULTI-TTI GRANT | July 2018 | July 2021 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16073327 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, BASE STATION, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND CORE NODE | July 2018 | October 2021 | Abandon | 39 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16044758 | WIRELESS CONNECTION TO PERIPHERAL DEVICE BASED ON ADVERTISEMENT CADENCE | July 2018 | April 2020 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16072580 | TRANSPORT NETWORK CONTROL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, FORWARDING NODE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM | July 2018 | December 2021 | Abandon | 41 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16072838 | MOBILE ROAMING AND AUTHENTICATION | July 2018 | July 2021 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16043419 | DETERMINING TOP N DEVICES FOR LABELS | July 2018 | February 2021 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16072414 | CONTROLLING THE CHANNEL OCCUPANCY MEASUREMENT QUALITY | July 2018 | July 2021 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15955136 | HIGH-SPEED WIRELESS MULTI-PATH DATA NETWORK | April 2018 | June 2023 | Allow | 60 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 15768502 | NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION SYSTEM AND NETWORK SERVICE INSTANTIATION METHOD | April 2018 | July 2021 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 15952163 | ENHANCED SERVING ACCESS POINT SELECTION IN A NETWORK HAVING MULTIPLE ACCESS POINTS | April 2018 | February 2020 | Abandon | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15767369 | COAP ENHANCEMENTS TO ENABLE AN AUTONOMIC CONTROL PLANE | April 2018 | August 2021 | Abandon | 40 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15767181 | AN ADAPTIVE MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEME IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL NETWORKS | April 2018 | July 2022 | Allow | 51 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 15767123 | INTRA-FREQUENCY AND INTER-FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT FOR NARROW BAND MACHINE-TYPE COMMUNICATION | April 2018 | February 2022 | Abandon | 47 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15756525 | CONDITIONAL RANDOM ACCESS | February 2018 | April 2021 | Abandon | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15860030 | FILTERING EXTENDED RANGE FRAMES BY HIGH EFFICIENCY WIRELESS (HEW) STATIONS | January 2018 | November 2019 | Abandon | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15859914 | NETWORKING CORE DEVICE, WIRELESS NETWORKING METHOD, AND INTELLIGENT NETWORK SYSTEM, BASED ON ELECTRONIC MODULE | January 2018 | August 2020 | Abandon | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15860129 | NETWORK BRIDGE BETWEEN DIFFERENT NETWORK COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS | January 2018 | December 2021 | Allow | 47 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15860083 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORK BASED ON USER EQUIPMENT INFORMATION | January 2018 | March 2020 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15847930 | BASE STATION AND SCHEDULING METHOD OF UPLINK RESOURCE UNIT | December 2017 | April 2019 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 15848105 | MAIN DEVICE FOR USE IN A COMPUTER NETWORK, COMPUTER NETWORK, METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A COMPUTER NETWORK AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | December 2017 | May 2020 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15847961 | SENSING RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SIGNALS | December 2017 | January 2020 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15735060 | SMALL CELL RESOURCE CONFIGURATION METHOD AND DEVICE FOR A WIRELESS MOBILE NETWORK | December 2017 | September 2022 | Abandon | 57 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15834299 | User Equipment and a Method for Power Control of Uplink Transmissions | December 2017 | April 2022 | Allow | 52 | 6 | 0 | No | No |
| 15799592 | MULTICASTING WITHIN DISTRIBUTED CONTROL PLANE OF A SWITCH | October 2017 | August 2020 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15783918 | MESSAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS | October 2017 | November 2018 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15714316 | TECHNIQUES AND APPARATUSES FOR SIGNAL QUALITY MEASUREMENTS FOR NARROWBAND INTERNET OF THINGS (NB-IOT) DEVICES | September 2017 | January 2020 | Allow | 28 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15714285 | TECHNIQUES AND APPARATUSES FOR SIGNAL QUALITY MEASUREMENTS FOR NARROWBAND INTERNET OF THINGS (NB-IOT) DEVICES | September 2017 | May 2020 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15713478 | TECHNIQUES FOR WLAN MEASUREMENTS FOR UNLICENSED SPECTRUM COMMUNICATIONS | September 2017 | June 2024 | Abandon | 60 | 8 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 15713143 | TIME-DIVISION DUPLEXING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING CROSSTALK ASSOCATED WITH SIGNALS COMMUNICATED BY COORDINATED DYNAMIC TIME ASSIGNMENT TRANSCEIVERS | September 2017 | November 2022 | Allow | 60 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15713264 | Timing Adjustment Free Solution to Uplink Synchronous Operations | September 2017 | February 2021 | Allow | 41 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15713167 | SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL DESIGN | September 2017 | June 2019 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15713225 | SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUES FOR PEAK-TO-AVERAGE POWER RATIO REDUCTION | September 2017 | November 2020 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 15713531 | RELIABLE WI-FI PACKET DELIVERY USING DELAYED/SCHEDULED BLOCK ACKNOWLEDGMENT MECHANISM | September 2017 | July 2020 | Abandon | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15663898 | Virtual LDP Session | July 2017 | May 2020 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15633376 | ENERGY-EFFICIENT PAGING IN WIRELESS NETWORKS | June 2017 | November 2020 | Allow | 41 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15633490 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTERFERENCE BETWEEN SERVICES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | June 2017 | May 2021 | Allow | 47 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 15633502 | TECHNIQUES AND APPARATUSES FOR COMMUNICATION RELAY DISCOVERY | June 2017 | June 2020 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15632100 | USE OF FREQUENCY OFFSET INFORMATION FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS | June 2017 | August 2020 | Abandon | 38 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15601993 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTAINER BASED SERVICE DEPLOYMENT | May 2017 | October 2018 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15440687 | ACCESS METHOD AND DEVICE | February 2017 | September 2019 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15503366 | METHOD AND TERMINAL FOR REMOVING INTERFERENCE | February 2017 | February 2019 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15502837 | USER EQUIPMENT REGISTRATION METHOD, ENTITY, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM | February 2017 | November 2019 | Abandon | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15502982 | METHOD FOR RELAYING COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING SAME | February 2017 | January 2019 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15502567 | Inter-Cell Interference Coordination in Heterogeneous Networks | February 2017 | October 2019 | Abandon | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15502471 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING IN UNLICENSED BAND AND DEVICE USING SAME | February 2017 | March 2021 | Abandon | 49 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 15502364 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK CONTROL NODE AND METHOD | February 2017 | December 2018 | Abandon | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15502056 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND METHOD | February 2017 | July 2021 | Allow | 54 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 15501885 | IPV6 INTERFACE ID FILTER USING A SINGLE PDN CONNECTION | February 2017 | August 2020 | Abandon | 43 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner PREVAL, LIONEL.
With a 38.5% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. This reversal rate is above the USPTO average, indicating that appeals have better success 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, 28.6% 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 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 shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner PREVAL, LIONEL works in Art Unit 2416 and has examined 218 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 66.1%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 40 months.
Examiner PREVAL, LIONEL's allowance rate of 66.1% places them in the 28% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by PREVAL, LIONEL receive 3.56 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 92% 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 PREVAL, LIONEL is 40 months. This places the examiner in the 24% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +22.1% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by PREVAL, LIONEL. This interview benefit is in the 66% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 17.7% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 18% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show lower effectiveness with this examiner compared to others. Consider whether a continuation application might be more strategic, especially if you need to add new matter or significantly broaden claims.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 16.6% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 20% 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, 84.6% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 66% 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 49.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 15% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 44.0% 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.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 15.4% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 9% 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 0.5% of allowed cases (in the 58% 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 5.6% of allowed cases (in the 84% 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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