Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17137190 | MOVABLE PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM AND PHOTOGRAPHY COMPOSITION CONTROL METHOD | December 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17135075 | RECEPTION DEVICE, DIS PLAY CONTROL METHOD, TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR PROGRAM CONTENT TYPE | December 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17110277 | GLASS CONTAINER INSPECTION SYSTEM | December 2020 | February 2021 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17108323 | IMAGE-CAPTURING CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE-CAPTURING CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EVALUATING APPEARANCE OF OBJECT | December 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17057692 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM | November 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17096859 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DERIVING A PREDICTION SAMPLE IN DECODING/ENCODING VIDEO SIGNAL USING BINARY AND QUAD TREES | November 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17096885 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DERIVING A PREDICTION SAMPLE IN DECODING/ENCODING VIDEO SIGNAL USING BINARY AND QUAD TREES | November 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17096905 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DERIVING A PREDICTION SAMPLE IN DECODING/ENCODING VIDEO SIGNAL USING BINARY AND QUAD TREES | November 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17094807 | PERFLESS AND CADENCELESS SCANNING AND DIGITIZATION OF MOTION PICTURE FILM | November 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17054096 | OPTICAL GAS IMAGING SYSTEMS AND METHOD COMPATIBLE WITH UNCOOLED THERMAL IMAGING CAMERAS | November 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17084653 | TEMPERATURE MEASURING DEVICE FOR TRACKED SUBJECT TARGET REGION | October 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17076828 | IR/Visible Image Camera With Dual Mode, Active-Passive-Illumination, Triggered by Masked Sensor To Reduce Power Consumption | October 2020 | April 2021 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17071448 | FIT ADJUSTMENT OF A HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY | October 2020 | November 2022 | Abandon | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17070886 | HAND-EYE, BODY PART MOTION RECOGNITION AND CHRONOLOGICALLY ALIGNED DISPLAY OF RECOGNIZED BODY PARTS | October 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17068904 | METHOD FOR OBTAINING FACE DATA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREFOR | October 2020 | November 2022 | Abandon | 26 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17064719 | BIDIRECTIONAL INTER PREDICTION METHOD AND TERMINAL BASED ON MOTION VECTOR DIFFERENCE REDUCTION | October 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17037420 | EVENT DETECTOR AND METHOD OF GENERATING TEXTURAL IMAGE BASED ON EVENT COUNT DECAY FACTOR AND NET POLARITY | September 2020 | October 2021 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17034660 | HELIOSTAT ERROR DETECTION | September 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17028239 | GRADING COSMETIC APPEARANCE OF A TEST OBJECT BASED ON MULTI-REGION DETERMINATION OF COSMETIC DEFECTS | September 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 34 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 17029005 | POSITIONING METHOD FOR FACIAL IMAGE OF SMART MIRROR | September 2020 | February 2022 | Abandon | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17017347 | BACKLIGHT DEVICE, HOLOGRAPHIC DISPLAY INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL ELEMENT HAVING A MULTILAYERED STRUCTURE | September 2020 | August 2023 | Abandon | 35 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16976799 | IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE-PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2020 | January 2023 | Abandon | 29 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16999327 | VERIFICATION SYSTEM FOR A PHARMACY PACKAGING SYSTEM | August 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16940571 | PRODUCT ASSEMBLY MACHINE HAVING VISION INSPECTION STATION | July 2020 | December 2023 | Abandon | 41 | 6 | 0 | No | No |
| 16920209 | INHERITED MOTION INFORMATION FOR DECODING A CURRENT CODING UNIT IN A VIDEO CODING SYSTEM | July 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 16911577 | BELT INSPECTION SYSTEM, BELT INSPECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR BELT INSPECTION PROGRAM | June 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16905160 | FACILITATION OF COLLABORATIVE MONITORING OF AN EVENT | June 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16899770 | HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE PROCESSING ON SPHERICAL IMAGES | June 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 27 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16871633 | SHOOTING PARAMETER ADJUSTMENT FOR MULTI-ANGLE CAMERA SYSTEM AND COMPONENT FAULT DETECTION | May 2020 | November 2023 | Abandon | 42 | 7 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16871622 | METHOD FOR DECODING VIDEO SIGNAL BY DERIVING REFERENCE SAMPLE FOR INTRA PREDICTION | May 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16870043 | METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT BUFFERING FOR OVER THE TOP (OTT) VIDEO DELIVERY | May 2020 | July 2021 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16868762 | METHOD OF ADDING ENCODED RANGE-OF-INTEREST LOCATION, TYPE AND ADJUSTABLE QUANTIZATION PARAMETERS PER MACROBLOCK TO VIDEO STREAM | May 2020 | January 2021 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16868637 | DEVICE FOR OPTICAL IMAGING OF FEATURES OF A HAND | May 2020 | November 2022 | Abandon | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16760974 | METHODS FOR SIMPLIFYING ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTER IN VIDEO CODING | May 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 32 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16859245 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING LANDSCAPE CONDITION | April 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 23 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16848374 | IMAGE DETECTION SCANNING METHOD WITH LIGHT INCIDENT ANGLE BASED ON NEGATIVE CORRELATION RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ARCTANGENT OF PREDETERMINED HOLE DEPTHS TO PREDETERMINED HOLE RADll OF OBJECT SURFACE DEFECTS AND IMAGE DETECTION SCANNING SYSTEM THEREOF | April 2020 | January 2023 | Abandon | 33 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16754837 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF PLATED WIRE ROD AND MANUFACTURING APPARATUS OF PLATED WIRE ROD | April 2020 | May 2022 | Abandon | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16815605 | GROUPED CODING FOR PALETTE SYNTAX IN VIDEO CODING | March 2020 | July 2021 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16814654 | COEFFICIENT CODING FOR TRANSFORM SKIP MODE | March 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16808626 | Technology To Assign Asynchronous Space Warp Frames and Encoded Frames To Temporal Scalability Layers Having Different Priorities | March 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16807561 | LOCATION-DEPENDENT DICTIONARIES FOR PEDESTRIAN DETECTION IN A VEHICLE-MOUNTED CAMERA SYSTEM | March 2020 | February 2021 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16806044 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RESTRICT DEVICE ACCESS IN VEHICLES | March 2020 | March 2021 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16782005 | SELECTING A CORESET OF POTENTIAL DEFECTS FOR ESTIMATING EXPECTED DEFECTS OF INTEREST | February 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16775721 | DRIVER'S EYE POSITION DETECTING DEVICE AND METHOD, IMAGING DEVICE HAVING IMAGE SENSOR WITH ROLLING SHUTTER DRIVING SYSTEM, AND ILLUMINATION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | January 2020 | September 2021 | Abandon | 19 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16630457 | A METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING A COLORED POINT CLOUD REPRESENTING THE GEOMETRY AND COLORS OF A 3D OBJECT | January 2020 | November 2021 | Abandon | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16629848 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE ROBOTS | January 2020 | May 2023 | Abandon | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16713886 | INSPECTION APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | December 2019 | April 2022 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16710803 | CONTROL DEVICE, INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING CONTROL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2019 | March 2023 | Abandon | 39 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16620668 | Camera Device and Method for Capturing a Region Surrounding a Vehicle in a Surroundings-Adapted Manner | December 2019 | June 2021 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16705487 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING A STRUCTURAL HEALTH OF COMPOSITE COMPONENTS BY CORRELATING POSITIONS OF DISPLACED NANOPARTICLES | December 2019 | July 2022 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16617553 | METHOD FOR EVALUATION OF GLASS CONTAINER | November 2019 | January 2023 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16694266 | SIMPLIFIED MOST PROBABLE MODE LIST GENERATION SCHEME | November 2019 | January 2021 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16691571 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZED SCENE-BASED VIDEO ENCODING | November 2019 | October 2022 | Abandon | 34 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16669533 | METERING COMPENSATION METHOD AND RELATED MONITORING CAMERA APPARATUS | October 2019 | October 2020 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16668180 | MULTI-CHANNEL SPATIAL POSITIONING SYSTEM | October 2019 | June 2021 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 16666532 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING CAMERA FOOTAGE FROM A PLURALITY OF CAMERAS IN CANVASSING A SCENE | October 2019 | July 2020 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16663336 | ADVANCED DIAGNOSTICS, ASSEMBLY AND SERVICE OF A HIGH VOLTAGE BATTERY USING IMAGE PROFILES | October 2019 | December 2021 | Abandon | 26 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 16657736 | IMAGING CONTROL METHOD AND DEVICE | October 2019 | March 2023 | Abandon | 41 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16654914 | ADAPTING MERGE CANDIDATE POSITIONS AND NUMBERS ACCORDING TO SIZE AND/OR SHAPE OF PREDICTION BLOCK | October 2019 | February 2021 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16496851 | DEGRADED FEATURE IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS, DEGRADED FEATURE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM, DEGRADED FEATURE IDENTIFICATION METHOD, DEGRADED FEATURE IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING DEGRADED FEATURE IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM | September 2019 | April 2021 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16575074 | OMNIDIRECTIONAL STRUCTURED LIGHT PROJECTION | September 2019 | May 2021 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16494573 | Electrocardiogram Waveform Signal Processing Method and Apparatus | September 2019 | January 2022 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 16554391 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING AN OFFSET IN VIDEO CODING FOR INTRA BLOCK COPY AND/OR INTER PREDICTION | August 2019 | December 2021 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16489464 | VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE | August 2019 | August 2022 | Abandon | 35 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 16552443 | DATA-DRIVEN EVENT DETECTION FOR COMPRESSED VIDEO | August 2019 | November 2020 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 16552303 | CONVEYANCE DEVICE AND IMAGE INSPECTION DEVICE | August 2019 | November 2021 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16552425 | Static Camera Calibration Using Motion of Vehicle Portion | August 2019 | December 2020 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16552288 | IMAGE INSPECTION DEVICE | August 2019 | January 2022 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16548407 | REFERENCE SAMPLE MEMORY SIZE RESTRICTIONS FOR INTRA BLOCK COPY | August 2019 | July 2022 | Allow | 35 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16534010 | Multidimensional Analysis of Gait in Rodent | August 2019 | March 2022 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16532924 | IMPROVING PROCESSING FOR HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGES | August 2019 | January 2021 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 16521058 | INFORMATION RECORDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD | July 2019 | December 2021 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16513016 | CAMERA SYSTEM, EVENT RECORDING SYSTEM AND EVENT RECORDING METHOD | July 2019 | April 2022 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16477939 | Spherically-Arranged Imaging Array Having Pairs of Cameras With Overlapping Fields of View | July 2019 | September 2020 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16477211 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING SURGICAL OBJECTS | July 2019 | October 2022 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16508806 | OBJECT INSPECTION DEVICE, OBJECT INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING INSPECTION POSITION | July 2019 | April 2021 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16503758 | INHERITED MOTION INFORMATION FOR DECODING A CURRENT CODING UNIT IN A VIDEO CODING SYSTEM | July 2019 | March 2020 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16475266 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING ADAPTIVE FILTERING ON REFERENCE PIXELS BASED ON SIZE RELATIONSHIP OF CURRENT BLOCK AND REFERENCE BLOCK | July 2019 | February 2021 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16457074 | Wearable Dead Reckoning System for GPS-Denied Navigation | June 2019 | May 2020 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16456741 | PERSONALIZED SEATING ZONE SYSTEM | June 2019 | August 2022 | Abandon | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 16452550 | COMPUTER VISION IDENTIFICATION FOR EACH COLLISION, A RECORD OF WHERE EACH PARTY CAME FROM, AND THEIR PATHS OF MOVEMENT POST COLLISION | June 2019 | October 2021 | Abandon | 28 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16448013 | METHOD OF MAKING WOOD FLOORING BOARDS | June 2019 | May 2022 | Allow | 35 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16471689 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF MOTION REFINEMENT FOR VIDEO CODING | June 2019 | August 2020 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16470901 | INTRA PREDICTION IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE USING CROSS-COMPONENT LINER MODEL, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING APPARATUS USING SAME | June 2019 | September 2020 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16469673 | IMAGE CODER/DECODER RESTRICTING BINARY TREE SPLITTING OF TARGET NODE OBTAINED BY TERNARY TREE SPLIT | June 2019 | March 2021 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16468675 | INTERIOR TRIM PART OF MOTOR VEHICLE WITH THIN-FILM DISPLAY DEVICE | June 2019 | April 2022 | Allow | 34 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16467618 | GENERATION DEVICE, IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND IMAGE REPRODUCTION RELATED TO STEREO PACKING OF PROJECTED FRAMES | June 2019 | November 2020 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16429778 | CONTAINER INSPECTION SYSTEM CONTROLLING PRINTHEADS TO CORRECT FOR DETECTED INK THICKNESS ERRORS | June 2019 | September 2020 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16420490 | VEHICLE OCCUPANT COUNT MONITORING SYSTEM | May 2019 | November 2021 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16349802 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING QUALITY DETERMINATION CONDITIONS FOR TEST BODY | May 2019 | October 2021 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16407325 | INFEED ASSEMBLY FULL INSPECTION ASSEMBLY | May 2019 | November 2022 | Allow | 42 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16403515 | DENTAL PICK LOGGER AND COUNTER | May 2019 | December 2022 | Abandon | 44 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16402812 | MULTI-SENSOR PIPE INSPECTION UTILIZING PIPE TEMPLATES TO DETERMINE CROSS SECTIONAL PROFILE DEVIATIONS | May 2019 | August 2021 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16340582 | IMAGE TRANSFER APPARATUS AND MOVING IMAGE GENERATING SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING MOVING IMAGE DATA | April 2019 | July 2020 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16372978 | SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AND VISUALIZING OBJECTS AND A METHOD THEREFOR | April 2019 | March 2022 | Allow | 35 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16371514 | Bidirectional Inter prediction Method and Terminal based on Motion Vector Difference Reduction | April 2019 | July 2020 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16369830 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | March 2019 | October 2021 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16366807 | PANORAMIC VIDEO WITH INTEREST POINTS PLAYBACK AND THUMBNAIL GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | March 2019 | February 2021 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 16323030 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD TO GENERATE AND DISPLAY AN IMAGE BASED ON A VEHICLE MOVEMENT | February 2019 | December 2021 | Allow | 34 | 6 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16251211 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | January 2019 | October 2020 | Abandon | 21 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT.
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, 0.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.
⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT works in Art Unit 2486 and has examined 193 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 69.9%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 23 months.
Examiner CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT's allowance rate of 69.9% places them in the 33% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT receive 1.75 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 35% 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 CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT is 23 months. This places the examiner in the 84% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +35.4% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT. This interview benefit is in the 82% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews are highly effective with this examiner and should be strongly considered as a prosecution strategy. Per MPEP § 713.10, interviews are available at any time before the Notice of Allowance is mailed or jurisdiction transfers to the PTAB.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 27.4% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 50% 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 17.8% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 22% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner rarely enters after-final amendments compared to other examiners. You should generally plan to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry. Per MPEP § 714.12, primary examiners have discretion in entering after-final amendments, and this examiner exercises that discretion conservatively.
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 9% 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.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 46.2% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 38% 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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 17% 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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 23% 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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