Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18733376 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUMS TO LOCATE PASSIVE INTERMODULATION | June 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 9 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18635624 | CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION FEEDBACK METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18419360 | Method and System for Time-Aligned Media Playback | January 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18405045 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED ACOUSTIC TRANSMISSION OF DATA | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18395704 | INTEGRATING VOLTERRA SERIES MODEL AND DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS TO EQUALIZE NONLINEAR POWER AMPLIFIERS | December 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18394376 | AMPLITUDE AND PHASE ERROR CORRECTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT | December 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18531638 | COMMUNICATION INTERFACE WITH CALIBRATING DELAY CIRCUIT | December 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18386980 | PHASE INTERPOLATOR (PI) WITH CLAMPING CIRCUIT TO LIMIT OPERATION TO RANGE HAVING OPTIMAL INTEGRAL NON-LINEARITY AND RELATED METHODS | November 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18382766 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | October 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18479815 | CLOCK CORRECTION METHOD AND CLOCK CORRECTION CIRCUIT | October 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18553039 | TIME SYNCHRONIZATION DEVICE AND NETWORK | September 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18472796 | CLOCK EDGE CORRECTING DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | September 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18469379 | FIFTH GENERATION NEW RADIO RADIO FREQUENCY SENSING WITH POLARIZATION CONFIGURATION | September 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18368091 | ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND SCOPE | September 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18243442 | RESET SYNCHRONIZING CIRCUIT AND GLITCHLESS CLOCK BUFFER CIRCUIT FOR PREVENTING START-UP FAILURE, AND IQ DIVIDER CIRCUIT | September 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18453018 | SENSOR DEVICE AND RELATED METHOD AND SYSTEM | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18365857 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPOSITE BEAM OPERATION AND OVERHEAD REDUCTION | August 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18264112 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | August 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 18229161 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING PHASE SHIFT TO DIGITAL PHASE-LOCKED LOOP CIRCUIT TO ADJUST FREQUENCY OF LOCAL OSCILLATOR SIGNAL USED BY DOWN-CONVERSION | August 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18222851 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR WIRELESS TO POWER LINE COMMUNICATIONS | July 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18261707 | AN IMPROVED SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD | July 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18350220 | DEVICE AND COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE DEVICE | July 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 18258633 | TERMINAL AND BASE STATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | June 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18333118 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING CELL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | June 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18208127 | TRANSCEIVER AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME | June 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18318162 | WIRELESS DEVICES AND SYSTEMS INCLUDING EXAMPLES OF MIXING COEFFICIENT DATA SPECIFIC TO A PROCESSING MODE SELECTION | May 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18195382 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION IN UE AND BASE STATION | May 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 20 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18036315 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND RECEIVING DEVICE | May 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18252096 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNSUPERVISED USER CLUSTERING AND POWER ALLOCATION IN NON-ORTHOGONAL MULTIPLE ACCESS (NOMA)-AIDED MASSIVE MULTIPLE INPUT-MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) NETWORKS | May 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18309652 | ETHERNET TRANSCEIVER CODING MODULE | April 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18305964 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18031922 | COMMUNICATION STRUCTURES | April 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18194816 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING AN UPPER BOUND IN RESPECT OF A SPATIAL DOMAIN BEAM SELECTION | April 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18194355 | EQUALIZATION ADAPTATION SCHEMES FOR HIGH-SPEED LINKS | March 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18127239 | SIGNAL GENERATING METHOD AND SIGNAL GENERATING DEVICE | March 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18165876 | BROADCAST SIGNAL TRANSMITTING DEVICE AND BROADCAST SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD WHICH USE CHANNEL BONDING | February 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18096186 | Signal communication apparatus and method having re-sampling mechanism | January 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18005033 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ELECTROACOUSTIC CONVERSION APPARATUS | January 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18094316 | PROCESSING METHOD IN A WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS RECEIVER RECEIVING A DIGITALLY MODULATED SINGLE-CARRIER SIGNAL, ASSOCIATED WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS RECEIVER AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER PROGRAM | January 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18014347 | METHOD AND DEVICE(S) FOR SUPPORTING CALIBRATION OF A MULTI-ANTENNA ARRAY COMPRISED IN AN ANTENNA DEVICE OPERATIVE WITH A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK | January 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18092561 | BAUD-RATE CLOCK RECOVERY LOCK POINT CONTROL | January 2023 | March 2024 | Abandon | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18092013 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENABLING DATA AND VOICE COMMUNICATIONS VIA SATELLITE NETWORK | December 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18003895 | BEAM SWITCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND NETWORK DEVICE, TERMINAL AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18003026 | TRANSMITTER CIRCUIT | December 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18085906 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING RANGING PERIOD OF MULTI-RANGING SESSION OF UWB COMMUNICATION | December 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18002781 | GROUP-BASED BEAM REPORTING FOR MULTI-TRP OPERATION | December 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18083937 | FULL-DUPLEX CONTACTLESS CONNECTORS | December 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18084193 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR TESTING, ANALYZING, AND ASSEMBLING RF MODULES | December 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18084057 | ADVANCED PHYSICAL LAYER (APL) ADAPTER FOR LEGACY FIELD DEVICES | December 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18078631 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYMBOL-SPACED PATTERN-ADAPTABLE DUAL LOOP CLOCK RECOVERY FOR HIGH SPEED SERIAL LINKS | December 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18060612 | RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM HAVING RF NODES THAT DETERMINE A DESPREADING SEQUENCE AND PHASE AND TIMING OFFSETS FOR FREQUENCY AGILITY | December 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18060262 | PIPELINED COGNITIVE SIGNAL PROCESSOR | November 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 21 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18059784 | TIME DOMAINS SYNCHRONIZATION IN A SYSTEM ON CHIP | November 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17992913 | ENVELOPE TRACKING SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING GAIN COMPRESSION OF POWER AMPLIFIER IN RESPONSE TO NUMBER OF ACTIVE RESOURCE BLOCKS IN CHANNEL BANDWIDTH, ASSOCIATED ENVELOPE TRACKING METHOD, AND ASSOCIATED ENVELOPE TRACKING SUPPLY MODULATOR CIRCUIT | November 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17986714 | DATA PROTOCOL OVER CLOCK LINE | November 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 22 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17975884 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE, CHIP SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | October 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17976025 | RIC FOR SELECTING CELL TO PERFORM COMP FUNCTION AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | October 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18050922 | DEVICE-CONTROLLED TRANSMIT CHAIN CONFIGURATION FOR HIGH POWER MODES | October 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17964723 | Channel Measurement Method and User Equipment | October 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17916972 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR APPLYING OPTIMIZED PHASE ROTATION TO BROADBAND IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM | October 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17915439 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING A SIGNAL COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF CHIRPS, AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND DEVICE | September 2022 | July 2024 | Abandon | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17933557 | QUADRATURE CIRCUIT INTERCONNECT ARCHITECTURE WITH CLOCK FORWARDING | September 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17948207 | POWER AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM HAVING FORWARD AND REVERSE COUPLING AND DIGITAL PREDISTORTION COMPENSATION | September 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17947577 | INTEGRATING VOLTERRA SERIES MODEL AND DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS TO EQUALIZE NONLINEAR POWER AMPLIFIERS | September 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17932473 | FREQUENCY SEARCH AND ERROR CORRECTION METHOD IN CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY CIRCUIT | September 2022 | December 2022 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17944215 | Synchronization between data and clock signals in high-speed interfaces | September 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17943932 | MONITORING CIRCUIT OF PHASE LOCKED LOOP AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | September 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17902139 | ONE-LINE SYNCHRONOUS INTERFACE | September 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17904484 | BEAM STEERING USING PASSIVE RADAR | August 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17891130 | FREQUENCY RANGE CONVERSION | August 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17799493 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS SUPPORTING SAME | August 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17885554 | Lateral escape using triangular structure of transceivers | August 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17797758 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION DEVICE | August 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17817834 | RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNAL INTEGRITY VERIFICATION | August 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17817955 | METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING UPLINK SIGNAL AND DOWNLINK SIGNAL, UE AND BASE STATION | August 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17797533 | SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE | August 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17865185 | RADIO SYNCHRONIZATION | July 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17860039 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MULTI-ANTENNA TRANSMISSION IN UE AND BASE STATION | July 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17811009 | DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS BUS SUITABLE FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS | July 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17851916 | PHASE MIXER NON-LINEARITY COMPENSATION WITHIN CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY CIRCUITRY | June 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17847283 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING RELIABILITY IN COMMUNICATIONS AND RESOLUTION IN RESPECT OF CHARACTERISTICS OF UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE | June 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17840340 | DEVICE AND COMPUTING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE DEVICE | June 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17838923 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING COARSE LOCK TIME OF PHASE LOCKED LOOP (PLL) | June 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17833971 | SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN DEVICES FOR PWM WAVEFORMS | June 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17828698 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMPENSATING FOR ACTUAL DATA PATH LATENCY | May 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17746436 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADVANCED OFDM TRIGGERING TECHNIQUES | May 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17744743 | PAM-4 RECEIVER WITH JITTER COMPENSATION CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY | May 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17742834 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING NETWORK EQUIPMENT FROM A REMOTE LOCATION | May 2022 | July 2024 | Abandon | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17662918 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CLOCK RECOVERY WITH LOW PHASE-ERROR FOR CARD EMULATION CLOCK-LESS NFC TRANSCEIVERS | May 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17736550 | Antenna Arrangement for Distributed Massive MIMO | May 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 17 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17736007 | RADIO RECEIVER SYNCHRONIZATION | May 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17733995 | DIGITAL PRE-DISTORTION PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | April 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17661050 | MINIATURIZED 5G DUAL-BAND MIMO RADIATING SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREOF | April 2022 | August 2024 | Abandon | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17731651 | SIGNAL DISTORTION CORRECTION WITH TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER (TDC) | April 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17729173 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2022 | March 2024 | Abandon | 23 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17728470 | Synchronization Signal (Sync Mark) Detection Using Multi-Frequency Sinusoidal (MFS) Signal-Based Filtering | April 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17769315 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING PHYSICAL RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL | April 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17720671 | CLOCK PATTERN DETECTION AND CORRECTION | April 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17719974 | Methods and Circuits for Reducing Clock Jitter | April 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17710377 | PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION CIRCUIT AND IN-PHASE DISTRIBUTION CIRCUIT | March 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner PHU, PHUONG M.
With a 0.0% 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, 62.5% 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 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 PHU, PHUONG M works in Art Unit 2632 and has examined 518 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 95.8%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 14 months.
Examiner PHU, PHUONG M's allowance rate of 95.8% places them in the 87% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by PHU, PHUONG M receive 1.20 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 20% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by PHU, PHUONG M is 14 months. This places the examiner in the 99% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +0.4% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by PHU, PHUONG M. This interview benefit is in the 13% percentile among all examiners. Note: Interviews show limited statistical benefit with this examiner compared to others, though they may still be valuable for clarifying issues.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 32.2% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 60% 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 56.6% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 79% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner is highly receptive to after-final amendments compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 714.12, after-final amendments may be entered "under justifiable circumstances." Consider filing after-final amendments with a clear showing of allowability rather than immediately filing an RCE, as this examiner frequently enters such amendments.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 133.3% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 84% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. Before filing a full appeal brief, strongly consider requesting a PAC. The PAC provides an opportunity for the examiner and supervisory personnel to reconsider the rejection before the case proceeds to the PTAB.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 72.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 56% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 37.5% 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, 52.6% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 65% 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 0.8% of allowed cases (in the 65% 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 11.3% of allowed cases (in the 89% 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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