Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19208461 | QUANTUM SECURE COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL AND DEVICE BASED ON DOUBLE-HELIX STRUCTURE COMPOSITE MULTI-LAYER ENCODING | May 2025 | September 2025 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18655095 | Antiransomware File Analysis and Scoring | May 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 7 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18652421 | ENHANCED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PIRATE DECODER IDENTIFICATION | May 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18649766 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION FOR ACCESS TO A RESOURCE BASED ON CO-CONNECTED DEVICE PRESENCE | April 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18615747 | ADAPTIVE LANGUAGE MODEL-BASED SOLUTION FOR INTERACTIVE SECURITY AND SAFETY WITH DATA PRIVACY | March 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18607843 | Multi-Array User Authorization For Cloud-Based Storage Systems | March 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18439856 | AUTO EXPIRING MULTI-TENANT MULTI-ENTITY SLIDING WINDOW EVENT COUNTER | February 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18412492 | CLIENT IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM AND NETWORK DEVICE | January 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18410717 | Dynamic Cloud Workload Reallocation Based On Active Security Exploits In Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) | January 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18404355 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING A PUF GENERATOR | January 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18402394 | Authenticating Based on Behavioral Transactional Patterns | January 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18544387 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SECURING WEB APPLICATION SERVER SOURCE CODE | December 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18504807 | TRUSTED COMMUNICATION SESSION AND CONTENT DELIVERY | November 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18497706 | DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION-BASED SECURITY AND TRACKING OF MACHINE AND AGRONOMIC DATA | October 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 22 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18375872 | ASYMMETRIC PARALLEL PROCESSING APPLIANCE FOR GENERATION OF SUPERIOR STRATEGIES FOR DEPLOYMENT TO REAL TIME ACTUAL CONDITIONS | October 2023 | December 2024 | Abandon | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18373111 | MONTGOMERY MULTIPLIER ARCHITECTURE | September 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18243799 | QUANTUM NETWORK DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | September 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18452033 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND MACHINE-READABLE PROGRAMS FOR COMMUNICATING SELF DESTRUCTIVE MESSAGES | August 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18231923 | Reputation-Based Trust Determination Method | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18276591 | APPENDING DATA ON A REPLACEABLE SUPPLY COMPONENT | August 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18274429 | QKD SWITCHING SYSTEM | July 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18220186 | SECURE COMMUNICATIONS VIA THIRD-PARTY SYSTEMS THROUGH FRAMES | July 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18220181 | SECURE COMMUNICATIONS VIA THIRD-PARTY SYSTEMS THROUGH FRAMES | July 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18215609 | SECURE COMMUNICATIONS VIA THIRD-PARTY SYSTEMS THROUGH FRAMES | June 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18342059 | SECURE DIGITAL CERTIFICATE GENERATION AND STORAGE FOR AUTHENTICATION | June 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18259072 | SECURE RELAY-BASED QUANTUM COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION NETWORK | June 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18335406 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR SEARCHING POLYMORPHICALLY ENCRYPTED DATA | June 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 18265980 | METHOD FOR SECURING AN AES BLOCK CIPHER ALGORITHM AGAINST HIGH-ORDER SIDE-CHANNEL ATTACKS | June 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18320509 | BATTERY WITH MATERIAL ON EXTERIOR OF CASING TO ABSORB MATTER FROM INSIDE BATTERY AND DISLODGE BATTERY FROM ELECTRICAL CONTACT(S) | May 2023 | February 2025 | Abandon | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18319030 | RISK ASSESSMENT SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING DATA FILES WITH SENSITIVE INFORMATION | May 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18317476 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED MULTI-LAYERED SECURITY WITH ENCRYPTION MODELS THAT IMPROVE ZERO-TRUST ARCHITECTURES | May 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18036625 | KEY GENERATION METHOD | May 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18196358 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION METHOD AND SYSTEM IN QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION OPTICAL NETWORK | May 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18195313 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE ANONYMIZED IMAGE ACQUISITION IN AN INDUSTRIAL PLANT | May 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18141789 | AUTOMATED MALWARE FAMILY SIGNATURE GENERATION | May 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18137363 | ZERO-TRUST MULTI-HOP AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION | April 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18303653 | PROTECTION AGAINST SIDE-CHANNEL ATTACKS USING A SQUARE MASKING | April 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18135954 | HYBRID QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION LINK FOR AN OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER | April 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18190036 | VIRTUAL TRANSPONDER UTILIZING INBAND COMMANDING | March 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18184239 | VERIFICATION OF A PUBLISHED IMAGE HAVING A PREDEFINED PORTION THAT HAS BEEN ALTERED BY A CLOUD PROVIDER PRIOR TO BEING MADE AVAILABLE VIA A MARKETPLACE OF THE CLOUD PROVIDER | March 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18182855 | SYSTEMS FOR MULTI-BLOCKCHAIN, MULTI-TOKEN INTEROPERABILITY VIA COMMON BLOCKCHAIN INTEGRATION | March 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18183035 | SYSTEMS FOR MULTI-BLOCKCHAIN, MULTI-TOKEN INTEROPERABILITY VIA COMMON BLOCKCHAIN INTEGRATION | March 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18107638 | Optimizing Data Transactions and Verification on a Blockchain Network | February 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18166297 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO MANAGE DATA OBJECTS IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT | February 2023 | May 2024 | Abandon | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18159750 | PRIVATE KEY CREATION USING LOCATION DATA | January 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18101225 | RISK RATING METHOD AND SYSTEM | January 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18157094 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPLOYMENT OF WORKSPACE ENDORSEMENTS | January 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18155385 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING ORDER INFORMATION | January 2023 | July 2025 | Abandon | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18154506 | METHOD FOR TRUSTED DATA DECRYPTION BASED ON PRIVACY-PRESERVING COMPUTATION | January 2023 | March 2023 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18095283 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUDITING SMART CONTRACTS | January 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18148425 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA AMALGAMATION IN A ZERO-TRUST ENVIRONMENT | December 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18146994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA OBFUSCATION IN A ZERO-TRUST ENVIRONMENT | December 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18146134 | METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING A CONNECTION TO A SERVER WITH A CACHED CERTIFICATE AND DEVICES THEREOF | December 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18084825 | TRACKING MALICIOUS SOFTWARE MOVEMENT WITH AN EVENT GRAPH | December 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18068170 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | December 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18080789 | Automotive Gateway Providing Secure Open Platform for Guest Applications | December 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18063976 | NUTS: Flexible Hierarchy Object Graphs | December 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18058358 | CONTAINER MANAGEMENT FOR CRYPTANALYSIS ATTACK PROTECTION | November 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18055251 | DATA CORRELATION USING FILE OBJECT CACHE | November 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17986632 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTHENTICATING A USER USING BIOMETRICS AND DIGITIZED HANDWRITTEN SIGNATURE | November 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18053329 | PERVASIVE, DOMAIN AND SITUATIONAL-AWARE, ADAPTIVE, AUTOMATED, AND COORDINATED BIG DATA ANALYSIS, CONTEXTUAL LEARNING AND PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF BUSINESS AND OPERATIONAL RISKS AND SECURITY | November 2022 | May 2024 | Abandon | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18051825 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR COLLECTIVE AUTHORIZATION WITH HIERARCHICAL GROUP KEYS | November 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18050943 | PYRAMID CONSTRUCT WITH TRUSTED SCORE VALIDATION | October 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17976115 | AUTHENTICATION METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING A USER USING BIOMETRICS AND DIGITIZED HANDWRITTEN SIGNATURE | October 2022 | January 2025 | Abandon | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17966702 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INSPECTING BROWSER SECURITY VULNERABILTIES | October 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17918836 | MECHANISM FOR PROTECTING FRONT-HAUL LINK FROM MAN-IN-THE-MIDDLE (MITM) ATTACK | October 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17960311 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY UPDATING FIREWALL RULES FOR A VEHICLE NETWORK OF A VEHICLE | October 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17937826 | DETECTION OF ABNORMAL ENTITIES BASED ON SYNTACTIC GROUPING OF STRINGS | October 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17931402 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | September 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17896423 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROLE-BASED PERMISSION INTEGRATION | August 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17873520 | VIRTUALIZED AUTHENTICATION DEVICE | July 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17814315 | TECHNIQUES FOR CREDENTIAL AND IDENTITY SYNCHRONIZATION | July 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17813294 | VIRTUAL MACHINE FORMJACKING PROTECTION | July 2022 | November 2023 | Abandon | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17862195 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 35 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17859513 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING A PUF GENERATOR | July 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17791387 | INFORMATION ANALYZING APPARATUS, INFORMATION ANALYZING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | July 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17856235 | TRUSTED COMMUNICATION SESSION AND CONTENT DELIVERY | July 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17789348 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING A MESSAGE INCLUDING AN ENCRYPTED IDENTIFIER OF THE TRANSMITTER DEVICE | June 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17849238 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCRYPTION AND PROVISION OF INFORMATION SECURITY USING PLATFORM SERVICES | June 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17837847 | METHOD, CONTROLLER, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR NETWORK ADDRESSING ON A DISTRIBUTED CRYPTO LEDGER NETWORK | June 2022 | September 2022 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17837820 | METHOD, CONTROLLER, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR NETWORK ADDRESSING ON A DISTRIBUTED CRYPTO LEDGER NETWORK | June 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17836594 | QUANTUM INFORMATION INTERCEPTION PREVENTION | June 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17805178 | TRUST ESTABLISHMENT BY ESCALATION | June 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17805181 | TRUST ESTABLISHMENT BY ESCALATION | June 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17827484 | SYSTEMS FOR MULTI-BLOCKCHAIN, MULTI-TOKEN INTEROPERABILITY VIA COMMON BLOCKCHAIN INTEGRATION | May 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17827472 | SYSTEMS FOR MULTI-BLOCKCHAIN, MULTI-TOKEN INTEROPERABILITY VIA COMMON BLOCKCHAIN INTEGRATION | May 2022 | November 2022 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17745480 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ENCRYPTION BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS | May 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17663154 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CYBER IDENTITY CLASSIFICATION | May 2022 | December 2024 | Abandon | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17722725 | RISK RATING METHOD AND SYSTEM | April 2022 | November 2022 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17720491 | COMBINED NETWORK AND PHYSICAL SECURITY APPLIANCE | April 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 41 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17719163 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTHENTICATING A USER BASED ON A BIOMETRIC MODEL ASSOCIATED WITH THE USER | April 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17689587 | TRACKING MALWARE ROOT CAUSES WITH AN EVENT GRAPH | March 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17689481 | TRACKING MALWARE ROOT CAUSES WITH AN EVENT GRAPH | March 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17640763 | METHOD FOR SECURELY TRANSMITTING SEQUENCES OF QUANTUM STATES BETWEEN A PLURALITY OF ONLINE PARTICIPANTS OVER A QUANTUM COMMUNICATION CHANNEL | March 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17681035 | Multifactor Contextual Authentication and Entropy from Device or Device Input or Gesture Authentication | February 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 38 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17679023 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING SECURE, ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS ACROSS DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER NETWORKS TO PROVIDE VARIABLE RESILIENCY WHEN INDEXING BLOCKCHAIN STATES FOR PERFORMING BLOCKCHAIN OPERATIONS IN DECENTRALIZED APPLICATIONS USING CRYPTOGRAPHY-BASED DIGITAL REPOSITORIES | February 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17675256 | LONG-DISTANCE QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION | February 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17668035 | DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION-BASED SECURITY AND TRACKING OF MACHINE AND AGRONOMIC DATA | February 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17667417 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURE ACCESS OF STORAGE | February 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17591632 | COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING GENERATION PROGRAM, GENERATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | February 2022 | January 2025 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SMITHERS, MATTHEW.
With a 50.0% 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, 30.8% 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 SMITHERS, MATTHEW works in Art Unit 2437 and has examined 1,077 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 92.5%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 24 months.
Examiner SMITHERS, MATTHEW's allowance rate of 92.5% places them in the 78% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by SMITHERS, MATTHEW receive 1.12 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 12% 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 SMITHERS, MATTHEW is 24 months. This places the examiner in the 82% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +6.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SMITHERS, MATTHEW. 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, 38.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 88% 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 58.4% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 84% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner is highly receptive to after-final amendments compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 714.12, after-final amendments may be entered "under justifiable circumstances." Consider filing after-final amendments with a clear showing of allowability rather than immediately filing an RCE, as this examiner frequently enters such amendments.
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 8% 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 71.4% of appeals filed. This is in the 58% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 30.0% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner shows above-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. The mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) provides an opportunity for reconsideration.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 38.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 26% 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 1.9% of allowed cases (in the 74% 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 0.2% of allowed cases (in the 52% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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