Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18665219 | HYBRID COMMON/INDEPENDENT FD-BASIS FOR TYPE II CSI ENHANCEMENT | May 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18608881 | SCHEDULING REQUEST PROCESSING METHOD AND TERMINAL DEVICE | March 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18600310 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR 5G QUALITY OF SERVICE INDICATOR MANAGEMENT | March 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18519409 | MIXED MODE MULTICAST ARCHITECTURE | November 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18384678 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED CHANNEL ACCESS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME | October 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18282908 | TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION METHOD AND DEVICE ON BASIS OF MAXIMUM DATA RATE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | September 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18260086 | SMF-CENTRIC MBS ACTIVATION WITH GROUP PAGING | June 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18313960 | DETERMINING POLICY RULES IN A MOBILE NETWORK USING SUBSCRIPTION DATA IN AN APPLICATION SERVER | May 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 34 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18305743 | HYBRID COMMON/INDEPENDENT FD-BASIS FOR TYPE II CSI ENHANCEMENT | April 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18305400 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18250077 | Managing Downlink Data During Transitions Between Mobile Networks | April 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18301003 | Delay Reporting For Network Segments In An End-To-End Communication Path | April 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18193881 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STEERING NETWORK TRAFFIC FOR MULTIPLE CORE NETWORKS | March 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18179285 | DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN QUALITY OF SERVICE MANAGEMENT FRAMES (QMFS) AND NON-QMFS IN PROTOCOL VERSION 1 (PV1) | March 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 8 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18105670 | COMPUTER SERVER CONFIGURED FOR DATA MEETINGS WITH OPTIONAL PARTICIPANT-SELECTED CALL-CONNECTING ATTRIBUTES | February 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18154634 | SUPPORT FOR ADDITIONAL DECODING PROCESSING TIME IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEMS | January 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18063058 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLEXING HIGHER-RESOLUTION CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (CSI) | December 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18008047 | Adaptive Event Processing for Cost-Efficient CEM | December 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17979767 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED CHANNEL ACCESS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME | November 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17971024 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING DIRECT COMMUNICATION SERVICES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | October 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17937280 | Data Transmission Method and Apparatus | September 2022 | March 2026 | Allow | 41 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17897832 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING THE FLOW OF DATA IN PDCP | August 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17797553 | DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION FOR UPLINK SCHEDULING | August 2022 | February 2026 | Abandon | 42 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17866774 | APPARATUS AND METHOD AVOIDING CBSD INITIALIZATION | July 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 35 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17865183 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SUPPORT SEVERAL MODELS OF A PART OR A PLURALITY OF PARTS UNDER A SINGLE BASIC INPUT AND OUTPUT SYSTEM (BIOS) | July 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17863627 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND NETWORK APPARATUS | July 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 40 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17858586 | DISTRIBUTED FIREWALLS USING IPV4 TTL/IPV6 HOP LIMIT | July 2022 | December 2025 | Abandon | 41 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17758327 | DETERMINISTIC QUALITY OF SERVICE | July 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17662882 | DELAYING RESOURCE RESERVATION PROTOCOL LABEL-SWITCHED PATH SIGNALING THROUGH A RESTARTING NETWORK DEVICE | May 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17775165 | MULTI-TB INTERLEAVING TRANSMISSION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17774139 | GROUP SCHEDULING REQUESTS AND RESOURCE ASSIGNMENTS | May 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17735135 | METHOD AND DEVICE IN NODES USED FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | May 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17770777 | METHODS FOR BUFFER STATUS REPORTING IN MULTIPLE CONNECTIVITY AND RELATED APPARATUS | April 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17657312 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTENDED SPECTRUM CABLE NETWORK | March 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17764946 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SENDING HARQ-ACK CODEBOOK AND METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING HARQ-ACK CODEBOOK | March 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17698042 | INTELLIGENT WIDE AREA NETWORK (IWAN) | March 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17686983 | Method for Making Host Network Performance Requirement Programmable, Device, and System | March 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17685070 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDING NODES TO A WIRELESS NETWORK | March 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 33 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17637887 | Methods, Apparatus and Machine-Readable Media Relating to Transmission and Reconstruction of Data Streams Using Data Duplication | February 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17672414 | RESOURCE INDICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | February 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17635069 | MOBILITY ROBUSTNESS IMPLEMENTATION METHOD, DEVICE, AND APPARATUS | February 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17634730 | USER SELECTION FOR MU-MIMO COMMUNICATIONS | February 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17634790 | TRAFFIC TRANSFERRING DEVICE, SWITCH, TRAFFIC TRANSFERRING METHOD, AND TRAFFIC TRANSFERRING PROGRAM | February 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17634747 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECEIVING PPDU, FOR WHICH LDPC TONE MAPPING HAS BEEN PERFORMED, IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM | February 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17634858 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST OPERATIONS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS | February 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 44 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17633958 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | February 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17586005 | WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY IN A MULTI-NETWORK ENVIRONMENT | January 2022 | July 2025 | Abandon | 42 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17583334 | SIDELINK DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE | January 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17574394 | HYBRID COMMON/INDEPENDENT FD-BASIS FOR TYPE II CSI ENHANCEMENT | January 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17647567 | MULTI-LINK WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS FOR HIGH PRIORITY/LOW LATENCY SERVICES | January 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17559468 | MODIFYING DATA PACKET TRANSMISSION STRATEGY BASED ON TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL STAGE | December 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17644815 | TIME-SPACED MESSAGING FOR FACILITATING NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS | December 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17643146 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRAFFIC DELAY INFORMATION REQUEST AND TRAFFIC OFFSET ALIGNMENT | December 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17537117 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADDING NODES TO A WIRELESS NETWORK | November 2021 | August 2024 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17612412 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING HARQ-ACK | November 2021 | January 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17528932 | COMPUTER SERVER CONFIGURED FOR DATA MEETINGS WITH OPTIONAL PARTICIPANT-SELECTED CALL-CONNECTING ATTRIBUTES | November 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17525691 | SUPPORT FOR ADDITIONAL DECODING PROCESSING TIME IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEMS | November 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17608629 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING WIRELESS SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | November 2021 | January 2026 | Allow | 50 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17516481 | ENHANCED MOBILITY FOR URLLC SERVICES AND REDUNDANT PDU SESSIONS | November 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 43 | 6 | 0 | No | No |
| 17452712 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | October 2021 | July 2025 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17497743 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SCANNING IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SYSTEM | October 2021 | June 2025 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17601255 | PRIORITY-DEPENDENT UCI RESOURCE DETERMINATION | October 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17492715 | MEASUREMENT METHOD, MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION METHOD, TERMINAL AND NETWORK DEVICE | October 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 40 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17601021 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA, AND DEVICE THEREFOR | October 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17490042 | SECURING DATA TRANSMISSIONS USING SPLIT MESSAGES | September 2021 | October 2025 | Abandon | 49 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17488365 | ENFORCING DIFFERENTIAL POLICIES ON USER TRAFFIC IN A 5G/EPC ENVIRONMENT WITH CONGESTION AVOIDANCE AND REAL TIME POLICY ENFORCEMENT | September 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17593946 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEMI-PERSISTENT SCHEDULING | September 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17598607 | RECONFIGURATION METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM | September 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17486315 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTATION LAYER CONFIGURATION FOR USER EQUIPMENT (UE)-TO-NETWORK RELAYING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | September 2021 | January 2024 | Abandon | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17480488 | NETWORK SLICE SUPPORT OF RESPECTIVE TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS | September 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17468471 | PACKET DELAY BUDGET (PDB) AND TIME SENSITIVE COMMUNICATION (TSC) TRAFFIC IN INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) NETWORKS | September 2021 | July 2025 | Allow | 46 | 3 | 1 | No | Yes |
| 17310881 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING PACKETS BASED ON RECEIVING A HANDOVER COMMAND IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | August 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17412881 | OPTIMIZING EN-DC NETWORKS | August 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 33 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17409708 | METHOD AND DEVICE IN COMMUNICATION NODES FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | August 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17432827 | ENHANCED CARRIER AGGREGATION (CA) RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (RRM) MEASUREMENT HIGH SPEED | August 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17401953 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRANSMITTING A DATA FLOW WITH MULTIPLE AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST PROCESSES | August 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17427827 | TOPOLOGY DEDUCTION SYSTEM, TRAFFIC ADDITION DEVICE, AND TRAFFIC ADDITION METHOD | August 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17389102 | DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN QUALITY OF SERVICE MANAGEMENT FRAMES (QMFS) AND NON-QMFS IN PROTOCOL VERSION 1 (PV1) | July 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17383479 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED CHANNEL ACCESS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME | July 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17443320 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIPLEXING HIGHER-RESOLUTION CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (CSI) | July 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17383475 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING ENHANCED DISTRIBUTED CHANNEL ACCESS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME | July 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17423983 | SOURCE CELL COMMUNICATION CONTROL FOR DUAL PROTOCOL STACK MOBILITY | July 2021 | June 2024 | Abandon | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17377140 | MODIFYING A CONFIGURATION OF A RADIO BEARER BASED ON A REQUEST FOR QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) FOR A COMMUNICATION FLOW | July 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 44 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17374371 | FAILSAFE HANDOFF BETWEEN SYSTEM EMBEDDED CONTROLLER AND RADIO USING ANTENNA CONTROLLER | July 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17367926 | ENHANCED BAND STEERING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK | July 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17419973 | ON COLLISION HANDLING OF MSGA PUSCH IN 2-STEP RACH AND OTHER UPLINK CHANNELS | June 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17360647 | EARLY TERMINATION OF UPLINK COMMUNICATION REPETITIONS WITH MULTIPLE TRANSPORT BLOCKS | June 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17343828 | DATA OR PACKET FORWARDING METHOD, NODE, AND SYSTEM | June 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17343414 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING COMMUNICATIONS DELAY | June 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17342412 | Data Sharing Among User Devices | June 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17311691 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE | June 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17337904 | LOW ENERGY POWER SAVING FAST RECONNECT FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES | June 2021 | August 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17335770 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION OF DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION | June 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17329840 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD | May 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17328448 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT IN A TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM | May 2021 | February 2023 | Abandon | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17320902 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR 5G QUALITY OF SERVICE INDICATOR MANAGEMENT | May 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17302675 | TECHNIQUES FOR TIMER ADJUSTMENT FOR PACKET LOSS | May 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17236300 | USER EQUIPMENT AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD FOR NETWORK SLICING | April 2021 | March 2024 | Abandon | 35 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17283507 | ACTIVE MODE TRAFFIC STEERING AND SWITCHING BETWEEN CELLULAR AND NON-CELLULAR SYSTEMS | April 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17283045 | MPTCP Friendly Cellular Multi-Connectivity Architecture with Transparent Proxy | April 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 31 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner RANDHAWA, MANDISH K.
With a 40.0% 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, 26.7% 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 RANDHAWA, MANDISH K works in Art Unit 2477 and has examined 266 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 75.2%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 33 months.
Examiner RANDHAWA, MANDISH K's allowance rate of 75.2% places them in the 40% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by RANDHAWA, MANDISH K receive 2.73 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 80% 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 RANDHAWA, MANDISH K is 33 months. This places the examiner in the 47% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +22.7% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by RANDHAWA, MANDISH K. This interview benefit is in the 68% 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, 23.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 32% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show below-average effectiveness with this examiner. Carefully evaluate whether an RCE or continuation is the better strategy.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 22.6% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 29% 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, 54.5% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 47% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show below-average success with this examiner. Consider whether your arguments are strong enough to warrant a PAC request.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 70.6% of appeals filed. This is in the 57% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 58.3% 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, 70.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 77% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are frequently granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1002.02(c), various examiner actions are petitionable to the Technology Center Director, including prematureness of final rejection, refusal to enter amendments, and requirement for information. If you believe an examiner action is improper, consider filing a petition.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.8% of allowed cases (in the 64% 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 4.0% of allowed cases (in the 77% 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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