Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18754801 | Method and device for assisting with unsubscribing from a newsletter | June 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18738081 | System and Method for Improving Internet Communication by Using Intermediate Nodes | June 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18668071 | PARALLEL TUNNELING WITH VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK SERVERS | May 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18664856 | DATA TRANSMISSION USING CONNECTION-LESS AND CONNECTION-ORIENTED TRANSMISSION LAYER PROTOCOLS | May 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18628109 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NETWORK SLICING MANAGEMENT BY NETWORK SLICE SUBNET MANAGEMENT FUNCTION | April 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18622349 | MESSAGE REPLICATION LATENCY MANAGEMENT USING SCALABLE VIRTUAL GATEWAYS | March 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18619928 | CLOUD TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION USING A GRAPH CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORK MODEL | March 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18620431 | LIVE MIGRATION OF BARE-METAL INSTANCES THAT ARE BACKED BY SDN APPLIANCES | March 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18620460 | INTEGRATED GATEWAY SERVICE | March 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18585632 | RADIO ACCESS NETWORK NODE CONFIGURATION | February 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18436856 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING TRAFFIC IN A CELLULAR NETWORK BASED ON RENEWABLE ENERGY UTILIZATION OF THE CELLULAR NETWORK | February 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18431536 | LOAD BALANCING POLICY DETERMINING METHOD AND APPARATUS | February 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18426799 | Leveraging Information Gathered Using Static Analysis For Remediating Detected Issues In A Monitored Deployment | January 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18578580 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BINDING PLURALITY OF ELECTRICAL DEVICES AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | January 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18410671 | Providing Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Enabled Notebook Interfaces For A Security Framework | January 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18393064 | PSEUDO WIRE PACKET TRANSMISSION METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE | December 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18541261 | Using Generative Artificial Intelligence To Interface With A Knowledge Graph | December 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18563196 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING FEDERATED LEARNING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | November 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18559030 | NETWORK MANAGER AND METHOD | November 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18385329 | MEDIA SERVER PROXY THAT SWITCHES STREAMING MEDIA PROTOCOLS | October 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18497957 | IP NETWORK QOS ENABLED BY APPLICATION CATEGORY DETECTION AND SESSION ASSOCIATION | October 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18557467 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING OR RECEIVING INFORMATION ON BASIS OF RESOURCE IN NR V2X | October 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18474996 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT DETERMINES NETWORK ENVIRONMENT OF A DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | September 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18472602 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Cloud Service, and Device | September 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18352897 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)-BASED DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL DURING A VIRTUAL MEETING | July 2023 | November 2025 | Abandon | 28 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18349191 | RESETTING A PRIMARY COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL OF A DRONE BASED ON A NEW CONNECTION PARAMETER RECEIVED OVER A SECONDARY COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL | July 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18219347 | REDUCING TRANSMISSION OF DATA PACKETS IN DATA TRNASMISSION | July 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18343741 | SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS | June 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18039836 | MECHANISM FOR OPERATION OF 3GPP TSN VIRTUAL BRIDGE IN A CENTRALIZED NETWORK/DISTRIBUTED USER MODEL IN A 5G SYSTEM | June 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18322840 | Initiating And Utilizing Pedigree For Content | May 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18198247 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION DURING CONTROLLER OUTAGES | May 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18112978 | NOTIFICATION-BASED LOAD BALANCING IN A NETWORK | February 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18106114 | AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION OF IOT DEVICES FOR ONLINE DATA BROKERAGE SERVICES | February 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18162474 | Detecting Anomalous Behavior Of Nodes In A Hierarchical Cloud Deployment | January 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18162247 | Customer Onboarding And Integration With Anomaly Detection Systems | January 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18161709 | REDUCING RESOURCE CONSUMPTION SPIKES IN AN ANOMALY DETECTION FRAMEWORK | January 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18006708 | Agentless Generation of a Topology Of Components in a Distributed Computing System | January 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17964378 | Cloud Compliance Monitoring for a Cloud Compute Environment Managed by a Container Orchestrator | October 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17938755 | Detecting Package Execution For Threat Assessments | October 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 14870972 | INTERNET CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM WHICH PROVIDES SYNCHRONIZED CONTENT | September 2015 | February 2017 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14442453 | Splitting of Processing Logics Associated with Commands of Pages in a Distributed Application | May 2015 | April 2017 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14593448 | DIAMETER ROUTING AGENT APPLICATION PLUG-IN FRAMEWORK | January 2015 | July 2017 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 14319687 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR THE COMPUTER SYSTEM AND PROGRAM | June 2014 | March 2015 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14063004 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING A FUNCTION OF SUPPORTING ACCESS TO MANAGING APPARATUSES, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION | October 2013 | January 2017 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14048782 | CROSS-SITE DATA ANALYSIS | October 2013 | March 2016 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 14010124 | Themes Indicative of Participants in Persistent Communication | August 2013 | September 2015 | Allow | 24 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13901463 | MEDIA RENDERING CONTROL | May 2013 | July 2015 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13790746 | MEDICAL ANALYSIS APPLICATION AND RESPONSE SYSTEM | March 2013 | December 2015 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 13791802 | CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH CUSTOMIZABLE CONTENT | March 2013 | May 2015 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 13772224 | DYNAMIC QUALITY OF SERVICE FOR CONTROL OF MEDIA STREAMS USING FEEDBACK FROM THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT | February 2013 | May 2015 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13771013 | MASS GENERATION OF INDIVIDUAL VIRTUAL SERVERS, VIRTUAL WEB SITES, AND VIRTUAL WEB OBJECTS | February 2013 | December 2014 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 13712941 | Controller in a camera for creating a registered video image | December 2012 | April 2014 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13660065 | SOFT POSTING TO SOCIAL ACTIVITY STREAMS | October 2012 | January 2016 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13560684 | CONTAMINATION BASED WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT | July 2012 | November 2015 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13356569 | DIRECT RETURN TO SOURCE (DRS) ROUTING OF CUSTOMER INFORMATION CONTROL SYSTEMS (CICS) TRANSACTIONS | January 2012 | December 2014 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13356371 | PERFORMING MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING NODE WITHOUT REQUIRING TO STOP ALL VIRTUAL MACHINES IN THE NODE | January 2012 | December 2014 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13351779 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC DATA FLOW CONTROL USING PRIORITIZATION OF DATA REQUESTS | January 2012 | June 2012 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 13374468 | Multi-party multi-modality communication | December 2011 | December 2014 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13293751 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING ELEASTIC CLOUD-BASED COMPUTING SYSTEMS AS A SERVICE | November 2011 | January 2013 | Allow | 14 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13118902 | MASS GENERATION OF INDIVIDUAL VIRTUAL SERVERS, VIRTUAL WEB SITES, AND VIRTUAL WEB OBJECTS | May 2011 | October 2012 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 13131582 | COMPUTER SYSTEM HAVING REPRESENTATIVE MANAGEMENT COMPUTER AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR MULTIPLE TARGET OBJECTS | May 2011 | February 2014 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13097964 | SERVER FOR AGGREGATING SEARCH ACTIVITY SYNCHRONIZED TO TIME-BASED MEDIA | April 2011 | July 2013 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 13041939 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SERVER SELECTION, APPLICATION PLACEMENT AND CONSOLIDATION PLANNING OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS | March 2011 | March 2012 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 13032253 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PHONE APPLICATION STATE MANAGEMENT MECHANISM | February 2011 | February 2012 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 13008743 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT-BASED SERIALIZATION OF MESSAGES IN A PARALLEL EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT | January 2011 | February 2013 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 12847195 | GLOBALLY UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION IN COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOLS AND DATABASES | July 2010 | May 2012 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12666659 | METHOD OF INTERACTION WITH PHYSICAL ELEMENTS FORMING THE CONTENT OF A MACHINE | July 2010 | October 2011 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12775348 | FILE BUNDLING FOR CACHE SERVERS OF CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKS | May 2010 | April 2013 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 12775411 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING BOOKMARK INFORMATION FOR CONTENT STORED IN A NETWORKED MEDIA SERVER | May 2010 | June 2012 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12775398 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING BOOKMARK INFORMATION FOR CONTENT STORED IN A NETWORKED MEDIA SERVER | May 2010 | October 2012 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 12731726 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHECKING STATE OF ROTATOR | March 2010 | October 2014 | Allow | 55 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12530368 | Display-Based Interactive Simulation with Dynamic Panorama | March 2010 | August 2013 | Allow | 47 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 12610342 | ONE-TO-MANY DEVICE SYNCHRONIZATION USING DOWNLOADED/SHARED CLIENT SOFTWARE | November 2009 | November 2011 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12562710 | PICTURE SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM, PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND PICTURE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD | September 2009 | January 2013 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 12562715 | UNUSUAL EVENT DETECTION IN WIDE-ANGLE VIDEO (BASED ON MOVING OBJECT TRAJECTORIES) | September 2009 | July 2012 | Allow | 34 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 12561561 | SYSTEM FOR STREAMING MULTIPLE REGIONS DERIVING FROM A WIDE-ANGLE CAMERA | September 2009 | July 2012 | Allow | 34 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 12530064 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMING A PANORAMIC IMAGE OF A SCENE HAVING MINIMAL ASPECT DISTORTION | September 2009 | August 2013 | Allow | 48 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 12548705 | PLUG-IN TO ENABLE CAD SOFTWARE NOT HAVING GREATER THAN 180 DEGREE CAPABILITY TO PRESENT IMAGE FROM CAMERA OF MORE THAN 180 DEGREES | August 2009 | July 2012 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 12527044 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STITCHING TWO OR MORE IMAGES | August 2009 | October 2012 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 12540761 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT MEMORY ALLOCATION | August 2009 | January 2014 | Allow | 53 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12538401 | CONTROLLER IN A CAMERA FOR CREATING A PANORAMIC IMAGE | August 2009 | September 2012 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12508048 | AUTOMATED DISPLAY OF AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM CONFIGURATION | July 2009 | September 2010 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 12502948 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED CONFIGURATION CONTROL, AUDIT VERIFICATION AND PROCESS ANALYTICS | July 2009 | March 2014 | Allow | 56 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 12367070 | CORRELATOR SYSTEM FOR WEB SERVICES | February 2009 | June 2012 | Allow | 40 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12366759 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A REQUEST USING PROXY SERVERS | February 2009 | December 2010 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 12320310 | SINGLE CAMERA DEVICE AND METHOD FOR 3D VIDEO IMAGING USING A REFRACTING LENS | January 2009 | January 2014 | Allow | 59 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 12320271 | INFORMATION PROCESS DEVICE, MUTUALLY CONNECTED THROUGH A NETWORK AND RECEIVING DELIVERY INFORMATION SUCH AS MOVIES OR MUSIC THROUGH A NETWORK, AND A METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME | January 2009 | April 2011 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 12320212 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FACILIATING COMMUNICATION WITH VIRTUAL MACHINE | January 2009 | July 2013 | Allow | 55 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 12320070 | UPNP REMOTE ACCESS SERVER AND METHOD OF SUPPORTING MULTIPLE REMOTE ACCESSES | January 2009 | September 2011 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 12273433 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC DATA FLOW CONTROL USING PRIORITIZATION OF DATA REQUESTS | November 2008 | September 2011 | Allow | 34 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 12258781 | DATA COMPRESSION IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS | October 2008 | December 2010 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 12231077 | METHOD FOR PHOTOGRAPHING PANORAMIC PICTURE WITH PRE-SET THRESHOLD FOR ACTUAL RANGE DISTANCE | August 2008 | March 2012 | Allow | 43 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 12199202 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO PROVIDE A NETWORK SERVICE | August 2008 | March 2011 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 12199098 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SHARED I/O SUBSYSTEM | August 2008 | September 2010 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12182630 | VIDEO METHOD FOR GENERATING FREE VIEWPOINT VIDEO IMAGE USING DIVIDED LOCAL REGIONS | July 2008 | January 2012 | Allow | 42 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 12180396 | OPTICAL FINGERPRINT ACQUISITION | July 2008 | October 2011 | Allow | 38 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12177538 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING INFORMATION ON AN EMBEDDED SYSTEM | July 2008 | June 2012 | Allow | 47 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12175142 | ZOOM BY MULTIPLE IMAGE CAPTURE | July 2008 | October 2011 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 12217439 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SERVER SELECTION, APPLICATION PLACEMENT AND CONSOLIDATION PLANNING OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS | July 2008 | February 2011 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 12166540 | INTERACTIVE CONTRIBUTION WIDGET | July 2008 | August 2010 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner BOUTAH, ALINA A.
With a 66.7% reversal rate, the PTAB has reversed the examiner's rejections more often than affirming them. This reversal rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals are more successful here than in most other areas.
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, 50.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
✓ 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 is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner BOUTAH, ALINA A works in Art Unit 2458 and has examined 107 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 99.1%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 38 months.
Examiner BOUTAH, ALINA A's allowance rate of 99.1% places them in the 93% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by BOUTAH, ALINA A receive 1.97 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 49% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by BOUTAH, ALINA A is 38 months. This places the examiner in the 29% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a -2.1% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by BOUTAH, ALINA A. This interview benefit is in the 9% percentile among all examiners. Note: Interviews show limited statistical benefit with this examiner compared to others, though they may still be valuable for clarifying issues.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 36.8% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 84% 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 42.5% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 65% 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.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 80.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 63% 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 64.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 45% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 36.4% 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, 62.5% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 67% 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 23.4% of allowed cases (in the 99% 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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 19% 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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