Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18674559 | INFORMATION INDICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS IN A MULTI-BEAM TRANSMISSION SCENARIO | May 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18666172 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING A RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | May 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18659900 | WIRELESS STATION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR DETERMINING TRANSMISSION TO ANOTHER WIRELESS STATION IN A CELL IN VIEW OF AN INTERFERENCE CELL | May 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18444270 | RELIABLE DATA PACKET TRANSMISSION AMONG ENTITIES OF A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK | February 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18539809 | HARQ Codebook for Radio Access Networks | December 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18366422 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING A HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST (HARQ) RESPONSE OF A PHYSICAL DOWNLINK SHARED CHANNEL (PDSCH) | August 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18356000 | WIRELESS STATION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR DETERMINING TRANSMISSION TO ANOTHER WIRELESS STATION IN A CELL IN VIEW OF AN INTERFERENCE CELL | July 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18341535 | TRANSMITTING DEVICE AND RECEIVING DEVICE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | June 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18308309 | TECHNIQUES FOR PUSCH SCHEDULING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | April 2023 | October 2024 | Abandon | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18306336 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURATION OF REFERENCE SIGNAL | April 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18297567 | DISTRIBUTED UNIT (DU) MEASUREMENT AND EVENT REPORTING IN DISAGGREGATED BASE STATION | April 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18296672 | SECONDARY CELL ACTIVATION IN NEW RADIO SYSTEM | April 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18192227 | SIDELINK TX RESOURCE POOL SELECTION | March 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18114863 | TECHNIQUES FOR PUSCH SCHEDULING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | February 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18165893 | RELIABLE DATA PACKET TRANSMISSION AMONG ENTITIES OF A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK | February 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18106016 | BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR PUCCH RESOURCE SELECTION | February 2023 | May 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18164455 | INDICATING DATA FOR TRANSMISSION PER TRAFFIC IDENTIFIER | February 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18104829 | ZERO-TOUCH DEPLOYMENT (ZTD) OF CELLULAR IoT DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED TRUST MODEL | February 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18077903 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING A RADIO LINK MONITORING EVALUATION PERIOD | December 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18076527 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SIDELINK DATA IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | December 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18057948 | CONCURRENT PHYSICAL SIDELINK FEEDBACK CHANNEL TRANSMISSION | November 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 5 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17991280 | RADIO LINK CONTROL STATUS REPORT METHOD AND CORRESPONDING APPARATUS | November 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 40 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17926381 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RLF IN NR V2X | November 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17952345 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE USING HIGHER PHYSICAL LAYER DATA RATE FOR CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION TRANSMISSION AND ASSOCIATED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD | September 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17895163 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURATION OF REFERENCE SIGNAL | August 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17798474 | TERMINAL, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND BASE STATION | August 2022 | August 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17796986 | Cellular Network Broadcasting | August 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17875353 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE GENERATION AND PROVISIONING FOR COMPUTE RESOURCES | July 2022 | July 2025 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17874130 | Thread Device Eco-system Design | July 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17867484 | ADAPTIVE PROCESSING ENVELOPE BASED ON CHANNEL CONDITIONS | July 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17865596 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | July 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17865032 | Power Control for Sidelink Feedback | July 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 20 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17812619 | MULTI-BAND MILLIMETER WAVE NETWORK DISCOVERY | July 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17792420 | USER EQUIPMENTS, BASE STATIONS, AND METHODS | July 2022 | May 2025 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17862584 | REFERENCE SIGNAL SENDING AND RECEIVING METHODS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17860896 | IDLE MODE THROUGHPUT PROJECTION USING PHYSICAL LAYER MEASUREMENTS | July 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17852238 | WIRELESS STATION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR DETERMINING TRANSMISSION TO ANOTHER WIRELESS STATION IN A CELL IN VIEW OF AN INTERFERENCE CELL | June 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17845255 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALLOCATION OF CONTENTION BASED DATA TRANSMISSION RESOURCES IN A NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK | June 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17843630 | METHOD OF MULTIPLEXING UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION AND RELATED DEVICE | June 2022 | November 2022 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17773902 | EARLY INDICATION OF NEW RADIO-LIGHT DEDICATED SYSTEM INFORMATION | May 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17725542 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR SHARED SPECTRUM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NETWORK DEVICE | April 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17712582 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS THAT SELECTIVELY PERMITS SPATIAL REUSE PARAMETER BASED COMMUNICATION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17713127 | INDICATION OF AN AVERAGING PARAMETER ASSOCIATED WITH A TRANSMITTER NONLINEAR MODEL | April 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17713100 | INTER-USER-EQUIPMENT SCHEDULING FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATIONS | April 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17765914 | Method, Computer Program and Wireless Communication Device for Communication Using a Pseudo-Random Value | April 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17711823 | WIRELESS DATA SERVICE OVER PUBLIC LAND MOBILE NETWORKS (PLMNS) THAT HAVE DIFFERENT PRIORITIES IN WIRELESS USER EQUIPMENT | April 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17763036 | METHODS OF CONFIGURING SSB/PCI FOR USE BY A UE AND RELATED USER EQUIPMENT AND NETWORK NODES | March 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17681007 | METHOD AND MUSIM UE FOR HANDLING RETRY OF NAS PROCEDURE IN NETWORK | February 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17635089 | SIGNALING LISTEN-BEFORE-TALK PARAMETERS | February 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17650560 | CONTROL BLOCK BUNDLE FOR RETRANSMISSION | February 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17633579 | DETERMINATION DEVICE, DETERMINATION METHOD, AND DETERMINATION PROGRAM FOR SWITCHING NETWORKS BASED ON A PLURALITY OF LEARNING MODELS | February 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17587217 | COMMUNICATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE | January 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 38 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17571321 | MIRS RE-TRANSMISSION OPTIMIZATION FOR GROUPCAST UTILIZING NETWORK CODING | January 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17568503 | SUBCARRIER SPACING AND CYCLIC PREFIX SWITCHING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | January 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17646985 | MODULATION AND CODING SCHEME CAPABILITY FOR HIGH BAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | January 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17643133 | MULTIPLEXING A SCHEDULING REQUEST AND A HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST ACKNOWLEDGEMENT HAVING DIFFERENT PRIORITIES AND DIFFERENT PHYSICAL UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL FORMATS | December 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17539717 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING A RANDOM ACCESS PROCEDURE IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | December 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17536075 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONCERNING ID UPDATE | November 2021 | March 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17521361 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF LOW POWER INDOOR TRANSMISSION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK | November 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17513846 | ADAPTIVE RATELESS CODING FOR SIDELINK COMMUNICATIONS | October 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17507650 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING HYBRID AUTOMATIC RETRANSMISSION REQUEST ACKNOWLEDGEMENT INFORMATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | October 2021 | April 2025 | Abandon | 42 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17450875 | DIFFERENTIATED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK BASED ON DECODING STATISTICS | October 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17501581 | METHOD AND TERMINAL FOR DETERMINING SIDELINK RESOURCES FOR SIDELINK SIGNALING TRANSMISSION | October 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17498584 | TRANSPORT BLOCK FORWARDING OVER DIFFERENT AIR INTERFACES | October 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17492351 | MANAGEMENT OF BACKGROUND DATA TRAFFIC | October 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17449602 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BEAM FAILURE RECOVERY IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | September 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17489377 | SIDELINK TRANSMISSION FROM REMOTE USER EQUIPMENT (UE) TO RELAY UE | September 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17599178 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREFOR | September 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17488237 | FULL-DUPLEX BEAM PAIR RESELECT USING BEAM MANAGEMENT REPORT | September 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17441003 | REDUNDANCY GAP INDICATION FOR IMPROVED DATA TRANSMISSION | September 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17440714 | TERMINAL APPARATUS TO TRANSMIT HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST INFORMATION AND RELATED COMMUNICATION METHOD | September 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17476221 | HARQ-ACK INFORMATION DISABLING IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | September 2021 | January 2024 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17447728 | FEEDBACK FOR MIXED GRANT TYPES | September 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17593233 | RRM Measurement in 5G New Radio FR1 Dual Connectivity | September 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17469220 | TECHNIQUES FOR BEAM FAILURE RECOVERY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS | September 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 29 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17446791 | REFERENCE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM | September 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17432451 | TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THAT DETERMINE A SPATIAL RECEPTION PARAMETER | August 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 39 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17403437 | INFORMATION INDICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS IN A MULTI-BEAM TRANSMISSION SCENARIO | August 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17401588 | Data Transmission Method and Data Transmission Apparatus | August 2021 | March 2024 | Abandon | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17398361 | HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST (HARQ) ENHANCEMENT FOR DORMANCY-INDICATING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION (DCI) | August 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17393845 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR UPLINK TRANSMISSION | August 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 35 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17394021 | REQUEST FOR A CANCELED HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST CODEBOOK | August 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 43 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17391204 | Signaling Of Punctured Sub-Channels In Wireless Communications | August 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 30 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17385175 | OPTIMIZATIONS FOR SIDELINK USER EQUIPMENT FOR INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL NETWORK | July 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17384810 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIDELINK WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | July 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 29 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17425555 | MINIMIZATION OF DRIVE TEST FOR MULTI RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY DUAL CONNECTIVITY | July 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17382816 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING A HARQ CODEBOOK BASED ON A REFERENCE TIME | July 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17379342 | ACTIVATING SIDELINK RELAY MAC-CE | July 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17375126 | FEEDBACK DESIGN FOR NETWORK CODING TERMINATION IN BROADCASTING | July 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17375052 | Methods, Devices, and Systems for Device to Device (D2D) Data Transmission and Retransmission | July 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 34 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17373399 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING DL COMMUNICATION WITH TIMING OFFSETS | July 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17044565 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING OR RECEIVING SYSTEM INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING TDD NARROWBAND | June 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17414188 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING PACKET DELETION ON BASIS OF LOWER LAYER TRANSMISSION RESULT IN NEXT GENERATION MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | June 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17312906 | METHOD AND NETWORK NODES FOR ENABLING DOWNLINK SCHEDULING FOR A SPS AND DRX CONFIGURED UE | June 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17339367 | MULTI-LINK FRAME DELIVERY | June 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17296608 | BASIS SUBSET FEEDBACK FOR CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION ENHANCEMENT | May 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17323404 | SIGNALLING IN DUAL CONNECTIVITY MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS | May 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17243773 | UE CONFIGURED FOR MULTIPLEXING HARQ-ACK BITS OF DIFFERENT PRIORITIES IN A PUCCH TRANSMISSION | April 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17236946 | DISTRIBUTED UNIT (DU) MEASUREMENT AND EVENT REPORTING IN DISAGGREGATED BASE STATION | April 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17284765 | DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION CONFIGURATION METHOD AND DEVICE | April 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner CHOWDHURY, MAHBUBUL BAR.
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, 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 CHOWDHURY, MAHBUBUL BAR works in Art Unit 2472 and has examined 227 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 85.0%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 25 months.
Examiner CHOWDHURY, MAHBUBUL BAR's allowance rate of 85.0% places them in the 61% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by CHOWDHURY, MAHBUBUL BAR receive 2.05 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 54% 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 CHOWDHURY, MAHBUBUL BAR is 25 months. This places the examiner in the 79% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +18.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by CHOWDHURY, MAHBUBUL BAR. This interview benefit is in the 60% 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, 33.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 71% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. Consider whether your amendments or new arguments are strong enough to warrant an RCE versus filing a continuation.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 23.9% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 32% 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 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, 40.0% 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, 57.1% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 59% 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 16% 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 1.0% of allowed cases (in the 61% 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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