Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18655173 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CENTRAL CLOUD SERVER MANAGED WIRELESS BACKHAUL NETWORK USING HYBRID REPEATER DEVICES | May 2024 | July 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18445636 | LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO) SATELLITE COMMUNICATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS USING FRACTIONATED SATELLITES AND HIGH-RESOLUTION SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING | December 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18232889 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK CONTROL INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | August 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18346719 | CONFIGURATION OF CONTROL CHANNELS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | July 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18210126 | Disturbance Detection for Transport Links | June 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18032335 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING GROUND STATIONS | April 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18130725 | PHASE ARRAY ROUTING CONNECTIVITY | April 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18088407 | BASE STATION DEVICE, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, PROGRAM, UPLINK SYNCHRONIZATION REQUESTING METHOD, AND SYNCHRONIZATION-SHIFT MEASUREMENT SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD | December 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18061792 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING EMAIL MESSAGES | December 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17982016 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREFOR | November 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17980624 | PROCEDURE TO UPDATE THE PARAMETERS RELATED TO UNIFIED ACCESS CONTROL | November 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17973650 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TERMINAL SELF-RESELECTING RESOURCE BASED ON PRIORITY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | October 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17968718 | DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION AMONG DIFFERENT OFDM NUMEROLOGY SCHEMES | October 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17939938 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISCOVERY AND ACCESS OF RESTRICTED LOCAL SERVICES FOR UNAUTHENTICATED UES | September 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17909337 | DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR THE RECEPTION OF ADS-B MESSAGES BY AN ORBITING SATELLITE | September 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17792791 | RELAYING TRANSMISSIONS | July 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17864911 | Method and Apparatus for Transmitting Uplink Control Information in Wireless Communication System | July 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17859632 | MULTIPATH REPEATER SYSTEMS | July 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 17 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17858012 | CONFIGURATION OF CONTROL CHANNELS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | July 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17855790 | Multibeam VSAT for cluster of slightly inclined GSO satellites | June 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17787939 | SATELLITE RECEIVER AND SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | June 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17787935 | AIRBORNE SHORT MESSAGE COMMUNICATION METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND SYSTEM, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | June 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17733416 | RESOURCE UNIT PUNCTURING AND ALLOCATION BASED ON QUALITY METRICS | April 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17707678 | ADAPTABLE, RECONFIGURABLE MOBILE VERY SMALL APERTURE (VSAT) SATELLITE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING AN ELECTRONICALLY SCANNED ARRAY (ESA) | March 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17669942 | TECHNIQUES FOR CONFIGURING UPLINK CONTROL CHANNEL TRANSMISSIONS IN A SHARED RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM BAND | February 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17570994 | CONFIGURING A SWITCH FOR EXTRACTING PACKET HEADER FIELDS | January 2022 | March 2024 | Abandon | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17570212 | SATELLITE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, SATELLITE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | January 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17646736 | CORRELATOR-BASED CARRIER SENSE MULTIPLE ACCESS | January 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17565574 | SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK ORCHESTRATION | December 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17556562 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS SATELLITE COMMUNICATION VIA LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO) SATELLITES | December 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17554654 | Secondary Cell in a Wireless Device and Wireless Network | December 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17619694 | COLLISION-FREE TRANSMISSION OF SENSOR DATA OF MULTIPLE SENSORS TO A SATELLITE | December 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17549728 | CONNECTIVITY SERVICE LEVEL ORCHESTRATOR AND ARBITRATOR IN INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) PLATFORMS | December 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17535823 | INTEGRATED MEO-LEO SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | November 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17527611 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNMANNED TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT | November 2021 | June 2024 | Abandon | 31 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17524844 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOBILE STATION, BASE STATION, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD | November 2021 | November 2022 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17489016 | UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM COMMUNICATION DUPLICATE REGISTRATION ID DETECTION AND RECOVERY | September 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17488618 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | September 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17442683 | MEASUREMENT ENHANCEMENT IN RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL (RRC) CONNECTED FOR BASE STATION (BS) | September 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17442178 | INTERFERENCE CANCELING BY VARIABLE DIVISION OF FEEDER LINK TRANSMISSION BAND IN MULTIPLE-GATEWAY HAPS SYSTEM | September 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17473434 | SATELLITE ACQUISITION ASSISTANCE FOR SUPPORTING SATELLITE WIRELESS ACCESS BY A MOBILE DEVICE | September 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17300542 | LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO) SATELLITE COMMUNICATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS USING FRACTIONATED SATELLITES AND HIGH- RESOLUTION SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING | August 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17393657 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING DATA LOSS IN SATELLITE TRANSMISSIONS | August 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17383116 | Optimizing Signal Transmission Handoff to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites | July 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17421335 | DOWNLINK DATA RECEIVING METHOD AND DEVICE, DOWNLINK DATA SENDING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17367328 | ENHANCED LDACS SYSTEM HAVING LDACS UNDERLAY AND OVERLAY NETWORKS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | July 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17367322 | ENHANCED LDACS SYSTEM HAVING CLOUD-BASED MANAGEMENT AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | July 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17312942 | INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT, COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES AND METHODS | June 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17329718 | SATELLITE, TERMINAL DEVICE, SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND SATELLITE COMMUNICATION METHOD | May 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17322950 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS | May 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17294289 | FRACTIONATED SATELLITE CONSTELLATION | May 2021 | December 2022 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17317001 | DECODING CONTROL INFORMATION RECEIVED OVER A CONTROL CHANNEL | May 2021 | November 2022 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17243558 | Multibeam VSAT for cluster of slightly inclined GSO satellites | April 2021 | February 2022 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17224800 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREFOR | April 2021 | June 2022 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17301223 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A DISTRIBUTED LEDGER FOR BASE STATION SLICING USING BLOCKCHAIN | March 2021 | June 2022 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17280423 | SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | March 2021 | September 2022 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17213238 | BASE STATION DEVICE, PROGRAM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD | March 2021 | November 2021 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17278134 | A METHOD OF, AND APPARATUS FOR, IMPROVED SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS | March 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17181306 | Network Synchronization of a Beam-Hopping Satellite System | February 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17178201 | RELIABLE DELIVERY OF DIGITAL SERVICES | February 2021 | August 2022 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17177504 | Disturbance Detection for Transport Links | February 2021 | September 2023 | Abandon | 31 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17171711 | PHASE ARRAY ROUTING CONNECTIVITY | February 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 1 | No | No |
| 17167607 | BEAMFORMED CHANNEL BUSY RATIO | February 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17145967 | RECONFIGURED UPLINK RESOURCE (PUR) FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORKS (NTN) | January 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17138119 | CELLULAR ENABLED IP RADIO SATELLITE TERMINAL | December 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17137042 | Method and Apparatus for Transmitting Uplink Control Information in Wireless Communication System | December 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17136763 | UTILIZING LEFTOVER RETURN CHANNEL BANDWIDTH IN A SATELLITE SYSTEM | December 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17127267 | ADAPTIVE AND LEARNING MOTION MITIGATION FOR UPLINK POWER CONTROL | December 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17110127 | AGGREGATED SPACE SYSTEM NETWORK | December 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17073027 | QUEUE SCHEDULER CONTROL VIA PACKET DATA | October 2020 | July 2023 | Abandon | 33 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17039205 | RADIO RESOURCE CONFIGURATION AND MEASUREMENTS FOR INTEGRATED ACCESS BACKHAUL FOR 5G OR OTHER NEXT GENERATION NETWORK | September 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17036645 | DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION AMONG DIFFERENT OFDM NUMEROLOGY SCHEMES | September 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17043403 | RECEIVING RANDOM ACCESS RESPONSE WITH EXTENDED RESPONSE WINDOW | September 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17030742 | DEDICATED CORE NETWORKS (DCN) SELECTION | September 2020 | November 2022 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17013153 | Method and System for Control of Discontinuous Reception (DRX) by a Mobile Device in a Wireless Communications Network | September 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17013349 | BASE STATION DEVICE, MOBILE STATION DEVICE, PROGRAM, UPLINK SYNCHRONIZATION REQUESTING METHOD, AND SYNCHRONIZATION-SHIFT MEASUREMENT SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD | September 2020 | March 2023 | Abandon | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17008927 | SYSTEM TO PRESHAPE DATA SENT VIA SATELLITE | September 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17007528 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUBSCRIPTION BASED DEPLOYMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | August 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17006088 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH RANK MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYMBOL DETECTION | August 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16983612 | METHOD FOR PRECODING USING A BLOCK DIAGONAL MATRIX | August 2020 | July 2023 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 16910714 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TERMINAL SELF-RESELECTING RESOURCE BASED ON PRIORITY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | June 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16871971 | TECHNIQUES FOR RESERVATION PREAMBLE FOR LOW LATENCY DETECTION IN A NEW RADIO SHARED SPECTRUM COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | May 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16857723 | PROCEDURE TO UPDATE THE PARAMETERS RELATED TO UNIFIED ACCESS CONTROL | April 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 27 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16756260 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREFOR | April 2020 | September 2020 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16840460 | BASE STATION EQUIPMENT, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, PROGRAM, FRAME TRANSMITTING METHOD, AND DATA STRUCTURE | April 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16827892 | DECODING CONTROL INFORMATION RECEIVED OVER A CONTROL CHANNEL | March 2020 | February 2021 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16803670 | METHOD FOR MEASURING SERVICE TRANSMISSION STATUS OF USER EQUIPMENT AND SERVICE STATION | February 2020 | June 2021 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16779654 | Cooperative Subspace Multiplexing | February 2020 | October 2022 | Abandon | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16744212 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, BROADCAST RECEPTION METHOD, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, PROGRAMS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | January 2020 | January 2021 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16730254 | METHOD OF HIGH SPEED AND DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION OF A TRANSCEIVER SYSTEM | December 2019 | November 2022 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16722719 | CONFIGURATION OF CONTROL CHANNELS IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | December 2019 | April 2022 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16694779 | Method and Apparatus for Transmitting Uplink Control Information in Wireless Communication System | November 2019 | September 2020 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16680836 | SINGLE RADIO SWITCHING BETWEEN MULTIPLE WIRELESS LINKS | November 2019 | January 2023 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16676372 | LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM EMPLOYING BEAM-HOPPING | November 2019 | August 2022 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16654431 | Information Transmission Method and Apparatus in Wireless Local Area Network | October 2019 | May 2021 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16588965 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH SWITCH COMBINING AND SIMPLEX OPERATION MODES | September 2019 | December 2021 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16570103 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR INTERNET OF THINGS-BASED DOCSIS | September 2019 | May 2022 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16488498 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING OR RECEIVING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREFOR | August 2019 | January 2022 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16546815 | COORDINATION OF TRANSMIT AUTHORIZATION IN A SHARED SPECTRUM ENVIRONMENT FOR 5G OR OTHER NEXT GENERATION NETWORK | August 2019 | July 2022 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16541653 | COMMUNICATION METHOD, RELATED DEVICE, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2019 | May 2022 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner KHAJURIA, SHRIPAL K.
With a 11.1% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.
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, 41.2% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is above the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal can be an effective strategy for prompting reconsideration.
⚠ Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner KHAJURIA, SHRIPAL K works in Art Unit 2478 and has examined 552 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 87.3%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 26 months.
Examiner KHAJURIA, SHRIPAL K's allowance rate of 87.3% places them in the 62% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by KHAJURIA, SHRIPAL K receive 1.69 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 48% 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 KHAJURIA, SHRIPAL K is 26 months. This places the examiner in the 61% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +7.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by KHAJURIA, SHRIPAL K. This interview benefit is in the 36% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 30.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 52% 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 37.4% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 49% 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, 100.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 70% 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 76.9% of appeals filed. This is in the 64% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 56.7% 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, 35.5% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 31% 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 0.9% of allowed cases (in the 67% 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 0.0% 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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