Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19330670 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED MACHINE LEARNING-BASED INBOUND CALL MONITORING AND RESPONSE GENERATION | September 2025 | January 2026 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18679525 | GENERATING A DISTILLED GENERATIVE RESPONSE ENGINE TRAINED ON DISTILLATION DATA GENERATED WITH A LANGUAGE MODEL PROGRAM | May 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 21 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18640779 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING AND PROCESSING MEMORY-RELATED DATA AND SYNTHESIZING MEMORY-BASED NARRATIVES | April 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18613833 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CROSS-CORRELATING AND ALIGNING PARALLEL SPEECH UTTERANCES TO IMPROVE QUALITY ASSURANCE | March 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 16 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18691047 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THAT USE LEARNING MODELS TO ALTER WATERMARK INFORMATION BASED ON MIXED AUDIO SIGNALS | March 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18594440 | Applied Artificial Intelligence Technology for Narrative Generation Based on Explanation Communication Goals | March 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18429781 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INTENT ANALYSIS | February 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18403041 | DYNAMIC SYSTEM RESPONSE CONFIGURATION | January 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18392813 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION USING USER PROMPT | December 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18571738 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR VOICE QUALITY CONVERSION | December 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18532741 | PROFICIENCY AND NATIVE LANGUAGE-ADAPTED GRAMMATICAL ERROR CORRECTION | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18530702 | Training and Testing Audio Voice Frameworks | December 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18520531 | Music Service Selection | November 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18512723 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING RELIABLE TRANSLATION IN NEAR REAL-TIME | November 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18512348 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE PROVIDING VARYING RESPONSE BASED ON CONTENTS INCLUDED IN INPUT, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF | November 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 18511324 | PERSONAL PRESENTATION OF PREVOCALIZATION TO IMPROVE ARTICULATION | November 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18511077 | DYNAMIC DOMAIN-ADAPTED AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM | November 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18509976 | INTERPRETING WORDS PRIOR TO VOCALIZATION | November 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18507656 | AUDIO VISUAL SOUND SOURCE SEPARATION WITH CROSS-MODAL META CONSISTENCY LEARNING | November 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18388694 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING IMPULSE RESPONSES USING NEURAL NETWORKS | November 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18492377 | Audio Signal Enhancement with Recursive Restoration Employing Deterministic Degradation | October 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18273354 | VOICE SIGNAL ESTIMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS USING ATTENTION MECHANISM | September 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18475599 | DIARIZATION USING ACOUSTIC LABELING | September 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18471635 | METHOD OF DETECTING A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT AND PROVIDING VISUAL FEEDBACK AS AN AVATAR TO A USER | September 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18471866 | Extreme Language Model Compression with Optimal Sub-Words and Shared Projections | September 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18367779 | System For Recognizing and Responding to Environmental Noises | September 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 26 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18241138 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION USING BAND-SPLIT TRANSFORMERS | August 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18446798 | ADAPTIVE SENDING OR RENDERING OF AUDIO WITH TEXT MESSAGES SENT VIA AUTOMATED ASSISTANT | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18351370 | Video Integration with Home Assistant | July 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18217955 | Method and System for Bridging a Gap Between Disparate Platforms That Remove the Need for a User to Switch Between the Disparate Platforms | July 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18217888 | UNIFIED SPEECH REPRESENTATION LEARNING | July 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18346177 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING DYNAMIC CONVERSATIONAL RESPONSES THROUGH AGGREGATED OUTPUTS OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | June 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18344007 | Automatic Speech Recognition Accuracy With Multimodal Embeddings Search | June 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18334442 | System and Method for Modulation Domain-Based Audio Signal Encoding | June 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18256967 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING OF AUDIO DATA USING A PRE-CONFIGURED GENERATOR | June 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18204901 | WEARABLE VIBROTACTILE SPEECH AID | June 2023 | August 2024 | Abandon | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18323576 | SYSTEM AND METHOD USING MACHINE LEARNED VOICEPRINT SETS FOR EFFICIENT DETERMINATION OF VOICE MEMBERSHIP USING ENHANCED SCORE NORMALIZATION AND LOCALITY SENSITIVE HASHING | May 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18195789 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO UTILIZE TEXT REPRESENTATIONS OF CONVERSATIONS | May 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18309108 | TASK DECOMPOSITION FOR LLM INTEGRATIONS WITH SPREADSHEET ENVIRONMENTS | April 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18033018 | SOUND SIGNAL HIGH FREQUENCY COMPENSATION METHOD, SOUND SIGNAL POST PROCESSING METHOD, SOUND SIGNAL DECODE METHOD, APPARATUS THEREOF, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18032536 | SOUND SIGNAL REFINEMENT METHOD, SOUND SIGNAL DECODE METHOD, APPARATUS THEREOF, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18135658 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING COGNITIVE DECLINE USING SPEECH ANALYSIS | April 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18031579 | SOUND SIGNAL REFINEMENT METHOD, SOUND SIGNAL DECODE METHOD, APPARATUS THEREOF, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18194251 | VOICE ENCODING AND DECODING USING TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS ADJUSTED BY SPECTRAL MODEL AND SPECTRAL SHAPER | March 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18171411 | Speech Enhancement Model for Automatic Speech Recognition | February 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18145193 | Applied Artificial Intelligence Technology for Narrative Generation Based on Explanation Communication Goals | December 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18074758 | Generating Additional Synthesized Voice Output Based On Prior Utterance and Synthesized Voice Output Provided In Response to The Prior Utterance | December 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18071884 | MACHINE LEARNING BASED EMOTION PREDICTION AND FORECASTING IN CONVERSATION | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18056615 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERALIZED STRUCTURED DATA DISCOVERY UTILIZING CONTEXTUAL METADATA DISAMBIGUATION VIA MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES | November 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18055211 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEMANTIC SEPARATION OF MULTIPLE INTENTIONS IN TEXT DATA USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING | November 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17985016 | AUTOMATIC DUBBING METHOD AND APPARATUS | November 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18051860 | DEEP LEARNING SEGMENTATION OF AUDIO USING MAGNITUDE SPECTROGRAM | November 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17977496 | PHONEME RECOGNITION-BASED SPEECH RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | October 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17973403 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REFLEXIVE QUESTIONNAIRE GENERATION USING A SPREADSHEET | October 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17937765 | RELAXED INSTANCE FREQUENCY NORMALIZATION FOR NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED AUDIO PROCESSING | October 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17936822 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING ISSUES BASED ON TROUBLE TICKET MINING | September 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17956017 | NOISE REDUCTION AND RESIDUAL ECHO SUPPRESSION | September 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17949717 | Processing Apparatus, Processing Multiple Convolutions | September 2022 | September 2025 | Abandon | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17939049 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM INTENT ANALYSIS | September 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17891967 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A HIGH-BAND SIGNAL FROM NON-LINEARLY PROCESSED SUB-RANGES | August 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17882457 | TASK FLOW IDENTIFICATION BASED ON USER INTENT | August 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17794227 | CONVERSION LEARNING APPARATUS, CONVERSION LEARNING METHOD, CONVERSION LEARNING PROGRAM AND CONVERSION APPARATUS | July 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17810765 | IMAGE DESCRIPTION GENERATION FOR A SCREEN READER BASED ON A SETTING INDICATING A LEVEL OF VERBOSITY | July 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17845689 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREPARING UNSTRUCTURED DATA FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USING ELECTRONIC CHARACTERS | June 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17845388 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT | June 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17784090 | SYSTEM FOR SETTING VOICE RECOGNITION RCU BY USING CLOUD SERVER, AND METHOD THEREFOR | June 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17834871 | SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING IN-PERSON INTERACTION BETWEEN MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT USERS WHOSE AVATARS HAVE INTERACTED VIRTUALLY | June 2022 | September 2023 | Abandon | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17779528 | SYNTHESIZED SPEECH DURATION MODIFICATION BASED ON DETECTED EMOTION IN A DIALOGUE SESSION | May 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17741874 | Method and System for Encoding and Wirelessly Transmitting Stereo Audio Content for Audio Communication | May 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17662418 | DEEP LEARNING SEGMENTATION OF AUDIO USING MAGNITUDE SPECTROGRAM | May 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17661832 | Speaker Embeddings for Improved Automatic Speech Recognition | May 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17661837 | MIXED LANGUAGE MODEL SPEECH RECOGNITION | May 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 32 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17732011 | INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED ASSISTANT | April 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17728449 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR CONNECTING AN IoT DEVICE TO A CALL | April 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17713919 | SOUND EVENT DETECTION BASED ON CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOUND EVENT | April 2022 | August 2025 | Abandon | 41 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17657600 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING A PLURALITY OF AUDIO SIGNALS ASSOCIATED WITH DIFFERENT SOUND SOURCES | March 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17702382 | SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING IN-PERSON INTERACTION BETWEEN MULTIUSER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT USERS WHOSE AVATARS HAVE INTERACTED VIRTUALLY | March 2022 | September 2023 | Abandon | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17698029 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING HIDDEN CUES IN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS | March 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 45 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17697823 | Techniques For Retrieving Document Data | March 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17697781 | Techniques For Performing Subject Word Classification Of Document Data | March 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17689633 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING BROWSER ACTIONS USING GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS | March 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17689270 | VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION BASED ON CONNECTIONIST TEMPORAL CLASSIFICATION LOSS | March 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17682399 | TRAINING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUDIO SEPARATION NETWORK, AUDIO SEPARATION METHOD AND DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | February 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17682568 | SOFT DECISION AUDIO DECODING SYSTEM | February 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17427157 | DATA CONVERSION LEARNING DEVICE, DATA CONVERSION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM | February 2022 | July 2025 | Abandon | 48 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17677976 | COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR UNSUPERVISED EMOTIONAL TEXT TO SPEECH TRAINING | February 2022 | February 2026 | Allow | 48 | 4 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17674752 | SPEECH CODING USING CONTENT LATENT EMBEDDING VECTORS AND SPEAKER LATENT EMBEDDING VECTORS | February 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17672364 | Natural Language Processing with an N-Gram Machine | February 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17666439 | Predictive Injection of Conversation Fillers for Assistant Systems | February 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17630090 | AUDIO DEVICE WITH SOUND DETERMINATION | January 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17580443 | COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS PROGRAMMED FOR AUTOMATIC ADAPTIVE CONTENT-BASED PROCESSING OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | January 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17577238 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VIDEO CAPTURE AND SEARCH OPTIMIZATION FOR CREATING AN ACOUSTIC VOICEPRINT | January 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17616091 | VOICE INTERACTIVE WAKEUP ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD BASED ON MICROPHONE SIGNAL, AND MEDIUM | December 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17539398 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD FOR GENERATING RESPONSE TO USER INPUT | December 2021 | September 2025 | Abandon | 46 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17614646 | PARAMETER LEARNING APPARATUS, PARAMETER LEARNING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | November 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17532276 | TRANSFERRING DIALOG DATA FROM AN INITIALLY INVOKED AUTOMATED ASSISTANT TO A SUBSEQUENTLY INVOKED AUTOMATED ASSISTANT | November 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17532674 | Music Service Selection | November 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17532199 | DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS BY AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT AS A USER ITERATIVELY PROVIDES A SPOKEN UTTERANCE, OR SEQUENCE OF SPOKEN UTTERANCES | November 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17613357 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | November 2021 | August 2024 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17531371 | RECEIVING A NATURAL LANGUAGE REQUEST AND RETRIEVING A PERSONAL VOICE MEMO | November 2021 | April 2023 | Abandon | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N.
With a 42.9% 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, 38.6% 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 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 is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N works in Art Unit 2658 and has examined 659 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 82.4%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 32 months.
Examiner OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N's allowance rate of 82.4% places them in the 55% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N receive 2.40 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 69% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N is 32 months. This places the examiner in the 51% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +3.1% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N. This interview benefit is in the 25% 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, 24.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 34% 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 37.7% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 57% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows above-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. If your amendments clearly overcome the rejections and do not raise new issues, consider filing after-final amendments before resorting to an RCE.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 20.7% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 27% 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 58.8% of appeals filed. This is in the 33% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 22.5% 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, 38.3% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 27% 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 0.2% of allowed cases (in the 51% 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 14.7% of allowed cases (in the 91% 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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