Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18633311 | AUTOMATIC POLICY CONFIGURATION FOR PACKET FLOWS | April 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18590564 | OPTIMIZING LAYER ASSIGNMENT DURING EPS FALLBACK PROCEDURES | February 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18432865 | Managing Local Emergency Numbers | February 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18294147 | PON SYSTEM OPTIMIZED FOR INTERNET OF THINGS | January 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18400881 | WEIGHTED MULTICAST JOIN LOAD BALANCE | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18544783 | Signalling of Frequency-Domain Resource Assignment | December 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18473384 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER PLANE RESOURCE SELECTION FOR 5G CORE | September 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18239008 | MODULAR INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM | August 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18448410 | FILE DELIVERY FAILURE FEEDBACK AND APPLICATION FEEDBACK | August 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18222992 | AiNO: AN AI NETWORK OPERATOR | July 2023 | September 2024 | Abandon | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18222425 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING TXOP AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME | July 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18219617 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING VARIABLE-LENGTH WAKE-UP FRAME | July 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18348455 | Communication Method, Access Network Device, Core Network Device, and User Equipment for handling a handover request | July 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18341167 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING A RELAY NODE | June 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18329916 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IMPROVED EMBEDDED APPLICATION DATA MANAGEMENT | June 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18308932 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTION OF OPTIMAL ACCESS POINTS | April 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 24 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18033460 | FILE TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18299400 | EFFICIENT SESSION MANAGEMENT | April 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18297650 | TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM, TERMINAL DEVICE, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND METHODS | April 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18132366 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING OF SYSTEM INFORMATION | April 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18166775 | BIER OVERLAY SIGNALING ENHANCEMENT | February 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18163285 | USER EQUIPMENT THAT DETERMINES RADIO LINK FAILURE USING TIMER AND RADIO LINK QUALITY, AND CORRESPONDING BASE STATION | February 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18100319 | METHOD FOR RECEIVING DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION BY UE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SAME | January 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18156175 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING, AND PROCESSING PACKETS ACCORDING TO, A FLOW FILTERING RULE | January 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18058566 | RADIO BEARER SWITCHING IN RADIO ACCESS | November 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17992128 | USING AN UPLINK GRANT AS TRIGGER OF FIRST OR SECOND TYPE OF CQI REPORT | November 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 20 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17966917 | GEOGRAPHICAL IDENTIFICATION FORWARDING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AREA-ORIENTED ADDRESSING | October 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18046741 | WEIGHTED MULTICAST JOIN LOAD BALANCE | October 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17956212 | Managing Local Emergency Numbers | September 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17946705 | RANDOM ACCESS RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL NODES | September 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17911723 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS CONTROL METHOD, AND WIRELESS BASE STATION APPARATUS | September 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17898985 | SYSTEM AND METHOD USING IMPROVED MESSAGE QUEUE AND PACKING SCHEME FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE | August 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17890053 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A HARQ OPERATION | August 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17820042 | DUAL BAND CHANNEL BONDING AND PUNCTURING | August 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17882207 | AI/ML BASED SS BURST SET & CSI-RS TRS CONFIGURATION OPTIMIZATION AND IMPROVING NR NETWORK POWER AND SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY | August 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17881435 | NR SIDELINK DISCONTINUOUS RECEPTION | August 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 33 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17880135 | Assistance Information for SPCell Selection | August 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17816659 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING A RELAY NODE | August 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17871107 | Dynamic Assignment of Signals to Ports in an Access Platform | July 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17871891 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING VARIABLE-LENGTH WAKE-UP FRAME | July 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17810105 | Real-time Relay of Wireless Communications | June 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17850537 | EARLY AND EFFICIENT PACKET TRUNCATION | June 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17841215 | USER-PLANE CONGESTION MANAGEMENT | June 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17827812 | INSERTING VIRTUAL CARRIER IN CONVENTIONAL OFDM HOST CARRIER IN COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM | May 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17662900 | TARGET CELL SELECTION FOR MOBILITY | May 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 34 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17740481 | AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT OF UPLINK TECHNOLOGIES FOR OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE | May 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17732534 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONFIGURING COMMUNICATION CHANNEL USING SIDELINK IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NODES | April 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17727925 | WIRELESS ACCESS POINT SOFTWARE APPLICATION FOR CLASSIFYING NETWORK DATA PACKETS TO IMPROVE PACKET FORWARDING PERFORMANCE | April 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17727348 | MULTICAST-ONLY THIN DODAG IN LOW POWER AND LOSSY NETWORK | April 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17659314 | RELAY DEVICES FOR DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS | April 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17717385 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM BY RRC CARRYING NSSAI, AND CORRESPONDING CORE NETWORK DEVICE | April 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17717381 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM IN HANDOVER CARRYING NSSAI, AND CORRESPONDING CORE NETWORK DEVICE | April 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17716852 | METHODS FOR CONFORMING NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK COMMUNICATION TO TERRESTRIAL STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS | April 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17716254 | OFFLINE MESH MESSAGING NETWORK WITH BLUETOOTH BROADCASTING | April 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17657917 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING TRAFFIC STEERING IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | April 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17705608 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SESSION MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | March 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17763990 | RELAYING COMMUNICATIONS WITH MOBILE OBJECTS | March 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 36 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17700490 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD USING TXOP AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USING SAME | March 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17642208 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TRAFFIC IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | March 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17753204 | HARQ OPERATION AT PHY LAYER LEVEL | February 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17665803 | BLUETOOTH CONNECTION ESTABLISHMENT | February 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 24 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17586638 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ALLOCATION AND USAGE OF RADIO RESOURCE, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING DATA THROUGH UNLICENSED BAND CHANNEL, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ACCESS OF RADIO RESOURCE | January 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17577837 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND TERMINAL | January 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17647093 | RADIO UNIT CASCADING IN RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS | January 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17624419 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING DATA TRANSMISSION LINK AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | January 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17562674 | INTERFERENCE MITIGATION NEGOTIATION BETWEEN NETWORK ENTITIES | December 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17557495 | INTELLIGENT VEHICLE SYSTEMS AND CONTROL LOGIC FOR CELLULAR LINK MONITORING AND FAILURE DETECTION | December 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17558270 | OPTIMIZING LAYER ASSIGNMENT DURING EPS FALLBACK PROCEDURES | December 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17556782 | TECHNIQUES FOR CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION BASED ARTIFICIAL NOISE INJECTION | December 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17457855 | HARQ CODEBOOK DETERMINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND NETWORK DEVICE | December 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17543016 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING OF SPECIAL SCELL SELECTION IN DUAL CONNECTIVITY | December 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17542056 | INTERNET PROTOCOL BROADCASTING | December 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17614561 | METHOD, DEVICE AND APPARATUS FOR TIME DIVISION DUPLEX SYNCHRONIZATION FOR DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM, AND MEDIUM | November 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17524772 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION | November 2021 | September 2024 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17523562 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNALS, APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SIGNALS, METHOD FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING BROADCAST SIGNALS | November 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17454444 | METHODS FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN REPEATER AND INTELLIGENT REFLECTIVE SURFACE OPERATIONS IN AN ASSISTIVE DEVICE | November 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17608790 | WIRELESS SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF WIRELESS SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING WIRELESS SYSTEM | November 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17607857 | METHOD AND UE FOR HANDLING COLLISION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK | October 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 37 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17506877 | Reference Signal Sending Method And Apparatus | October 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17506504 | RANDOM ACCESS METHOD AND TERMINAL | October 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17506511 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE AND NETWORK DEVICE | October 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17503168 | LTF SEQUENCES FOR 320 MHZ WIFI CHANNELS | October 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17499054 | METHOD AND TERMINAL FOR INITIATING TIME SENSITIVE COMMUNICATION SERVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | October 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17450147 | AUTOMATIC POLICY CONFIGURATION FOR PACKET FLOWS | October 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17492661 | METHOD FOR DATA TRANSMISSION THROUGH COMMUNICATION LINK, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | October 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17598413 | TIME-SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM, RELAY APPARATUS, TIME-SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | September 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17484742 | Variable Application of Quality of Service | September 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17593816 | Systems and Methods for Network-side UL Cancellation Using Interlaced Frequency Resource Allocation | September 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17440586 | PSCCH CONTROL CHANNEL DESIGN FOR NR V2X SIDELINK COMMUNICATION AND PSCCH DMRS PHYSICAL STRUCTURES | September 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17440607 | USER TERMINAL AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD | September 2021 | May 2024 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17446997 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLIENT DEVICE ROAMING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK TO PROVIDE LOSSLESS VIDEO TRANSMISSION SERVICES | September 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17467608 | DYNAMIC RESOURCE COORDINATION FOR FULL-DUPLEX INTEGRATED ACCESS AND BACKHAUL (IAB) | September 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17401607 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING CALL PERFORMANCE IN WIRELESS NETWORK | August 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17386651 | QUALITY OF SERVICE ADJUSTING METHOD BASED ON APPLICATION CATEGORIES AND SYSTEM THEREOF | July 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17425170 | PROVISION OF RACH RELATED INFORMATION FOR CONNECTION FAILURE DETECTION | July 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17425186 | USER TERMINAL AND RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD | July 2021 | April 2024 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17382162 | AiNO: AN AI NETWORK OPERATOR | July 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17424307 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PACKET DROPPING IN A FRONTHAUL NETWORK | July 2021 | December 2023 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17378078 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH CENTRAL COMMUNICATION UNIT ARRANGED TO COMMUNICATE WITH SUBSCRIBER COMMUNICATION UNITS | July 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17373797 | USER EQUIPMENT THAT DETERMINES RADIO LINK FAILURE USING TIMER AND RADIO LINK QUALITY, AND CORRESPONDING BASE STATION | July 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SMARTH, GERALD A.
With a 18.8% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges 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, 27.5% 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 face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.
⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner SMARTH, GERALD A works in Art Unit 2478 and has examined 758 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 88.8%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 25 months.
Examiner SMARTH, GERALD A's allowance rate of 88.8% places them in the 67% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by SMARTH, GERALD A receive 1.65 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 45% 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 SMARTH, GERALD A is 25 months. This places the examiner in the 66% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +9.2% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SMARTH, GERALD A. This interview benefit is in the 44% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 33.3% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 65% 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 37.2% 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, 69.6% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 56% 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 66.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 44% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 53.1% 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, 37.2% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 33% 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 0.5% of allowed cases (in the 60% 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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