Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19035653 | NIGHTTIME UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE OBJECT TRACKING METHOD FUSING HYBRID ATTENTION MECHANISM | January 2025 | March 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18921601 | EFFICIENT BEHAVIOR PREDICTION | October 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18644727 | COUNTERFACTUAL CONTEXT-AWARE TEXTURE LEARNING FOR CAMOUFLAGED OBJECT DETECTION | April 2024 | July 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18697418 | MULTI-MODAL MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | March 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18521457 | SERVER, VEHICLE DETECTION SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE DETECTION METHOD | November 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18139172 | VEHICLE REIDENTIFICATION | April 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18079234 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VEHICLE | December 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18057582 | DETERMINING WEIGHTS OF POINTS OF A POINT CLOUD BASED ON GEOMETRIC FEATURES | November 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17982101 | DETECTING AN OBJECT IN AN IMAGE USING MULTIBAND AND MULTIDIRECTIONAL FILTERING | November 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18051341 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AR-BASED GRADED MANAGEMENT EDUCATION OF LABORATORY SAFETY RISK | October 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18049874 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED CONSTRUCTION OF DATA SETS FOR RETRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL | October 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17938764 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING VEHICLE TAILGATING | October 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17930335 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM (DCT) NOISE FILTERING FOR DIGITAL IMAGES | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17902418 | 3-DIMENSION PARCEL MEASUREMENT DEVICE ACCORDING TO A CAPTURED IMAGE AND DEPTH MEASUREMENT | September 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17823033 | IMAGE PROCESSING FRAMEWORK FOR PERFORMING OBJECT DEPTH ESTIMATION | August 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17896407 | SENSOR DATA PROCESSING FOR MONITORING DEVICE PERFORMANCE | August 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17641954 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND IMAGING METHOD | August 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17891668 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING MEDICAL IMAGES WITH INVERTIBLE NEURAL NETWORKS | August 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17877415 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RARE OBJECT LOCALIZATION AND SEARCH IN OVERHEAD IMAGERY | July 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17790827 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY PRIORITIZING, ORGANIZING AND DISPLAYING CELLS AND TISSUE IN ORDER OF THEIR DIAGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE | July 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 35 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17851024 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DIVIDING PAGE DATA BASED ON THE HISTORY | June 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17849968 | DATA PARALLELISM AND HALO EXCHANGE FOR DISTRIBUTED MACHINE LEARNING | June 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17848689 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOW-DOSE X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE PROCESSING BASED ON EFFICIENT UNSUPERVISED LEARNING USING INVERTIBLE NEURAL NETWORK | June 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17788579 | Processing Apparatus and Point Cloud Elimination Method | June 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17808261 | GENERATING NOVEL IMAGES USING SKETCH IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS | June 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17838611 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND MEMORY MEDIUM | June 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17782673 | METHOD FOR CATEGORIZING A ROCK ON THE BASIS OF AT LEAST ONE IMAGE | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17782015 | DEFECT DETECTION IN IMAGE SPACE | June 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17829856 | CONTROL DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD OF CONTROL DEVICE, AND OPERATION PROGRAM OF CONTROL DEVICE | June 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17825183 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFICATION OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSIVE MATERIALS (CSAM) IN AN ANIMATED GRAPHICS | May 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17754874 | FREQUENCY DOMAIN-BASED METHOD FOR REMOVING PERIODIC NOISE FROM RECONSTRUCTED LIGHT FIELD IMAGE | April 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17765042 | ANGULAR MODE SYNTAX FOR TREE-BASED POINT CLOUD CODING | March 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17696967 | METHOD FOR TRAINING A SUPERVISED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INTENDED TO IDENTIFY A PREDETERMINED OBJECT IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF AN AIRCRAFT | March 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17695016 | OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND OBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD | March 2022 | June 2024 | Abandon | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17690238 | Multi-component system for computerized x-ray vision to track motion during surgery | March 2022 | December 2024 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17676426 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DATA AUGMENTATION | February 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17672798 | PLATFORM FOR PERCEPTION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT FOR AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEM | February 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17632876 | SYSTEM, LOCATION INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, LOCATION SPECIFYING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | February 2022 | April 2025 | Abandon | 38 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17580973 | CLASS DETERMINATION SYSTEM, CLASS DETERMINATION METHOD, AND CLASS DETERMINATION PROGRAM | January 2022 | June 2024 | Abandon | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17627217 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | January 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17573835 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING INFERENCE USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL, BASED ON ENCRYPTED DATA, AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | January 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17597404 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | January 2022 | February 2024 | Abandon | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17567912 | HIGH DENSITY VIRTUAL CONTENT CREATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | January 2022 | September 2023 | Abandon | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17624312 | Damage Detection Apparatus and Method | December 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17556202 | SPECTROMETRY METHOD, SPECTROMETRY SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | December 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17644790 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SELECTING DATA PROCESSING MODELS | December 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 36 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17554474 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED PRODUCT CLASSIFICATION | December 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17551621 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AND ANALYZING OBJECTS | December 2021 | April 2023 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17618660 | LEARNING DEVICE, TRAFFIC EVENT PREDICTION SYSTEM, AND LEARNING METHOD | December 2021 | November 2024 | Abandon | 35 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17548743 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | December 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17618496 | OUTSIDE ENVIRONMENT RECOGNITION DEVICE | December 2021 | March 2024 | Abandon | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17548019 | METHOD FOR GENERATING IMAGE LABEL, AND DEVICE | December 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17457179 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMAGE REGISTRATION | December 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17457130 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A CLASSIFIER | December 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17538526 | SERVER, VEHICLE DETECTION SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE DETECTION METHOD | November 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17534558 | APPLYING SELF-CONFIDENCE IN MULTI-LABEL CLASSIFICATION TO MODEL TRAINING | November 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17456341 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-SENSOR, MULTI-LAYER TARGETED LABELING AND USER INTERFACES THEREFOR | November 2021 | November 2024 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17595374 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, CAMERA APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17518012 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF TRAINING DATA FOR INSTANCE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS | November 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17513220 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTION OF WEIGHTED CONTACT LENSES IMPRINTED WITH IRIS IMAGES | October 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17513559 | GENERATING ALPHA MATTES FOR DIGITAL IMAGES UTILIZING A TRANSFORMER-BASED ENCODER-DECODER | October 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17513441 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACE RECOGNITION ROBUST TO ALIGNMENT STATUS OF THE FACE | October 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17513292 | AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) SELF CHECKOUT ATTENDANT | October 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17508882 | CONTOUR-BASED PRIVACY MASKING APPARATUS, CONTOUR-BASED PRIVACY UNMASKING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR SHARING PRIVACY MASKING REGION DESCRIPTOR | October 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17499959 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-LEARNING RATES OF SUBSTITUTION IN NEURAL IMAGE COMPRESSION | October 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17594364 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ATTENUATION MAP FROM SPECT EMISSION DATA | October 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17449985 | IMAGERY EVIDENCE MATCHING SYSTEM | October 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17480840 | TECHNIQUES FOR ADAPTIVE FRAME-BASED CLIP MATCHING AND FINGERPRINTING | September 2021 | June 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17464521 | ABOVE-HORIZON TARGET TRACKING | September 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 33 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17462493 | Hardware Accelerator for Integral Image Computation | August 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17410630 | Contextual Matching | August 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 33 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17405919 | System and Method for Object Detection and Dimensioning | August 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17378495 | KEY POINTS DETECTION USING MULTIPLE IMAGE MODALITIES | July 2021 | March 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17376513 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE DATA USING A NON-LINEAR SCALING MODEL AND A MEDICAL VISUAL AID SYSTEM | July 2021 | January 2024 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17372917 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREDICTING AND PREVENTING COLLISIONS | July 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17419784 | METHOD FOR IMPROVING RELIABILITY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION USING COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE-BASED MUTUAL VERIFICATION | June 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17361424 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING IF A VEHICLE IS PARKED | June 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17353036 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | June 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 42 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17348251 | ROAD OBSTACLE DETECTION DEVICE, ROAD OBSTACLE DETECTION METHOD AND PROGRAM | June 2021 | December 2023 | Abandon | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17337433 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM | June 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17337829 | IMAGE MODIFICATIONS FOR CROWDSOURCED SURVEILLANCE | June 2021 | March 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17337959 | METHOD FOR GENERATING HOLOGRAM BASED ON SEPARATING AXIS AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME | June 2021 | January 2024 | Abandon | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17337431 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, RADIOGRAPHY SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM | June 2021 | September 2023 | Abandon | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17328952 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING MEASURING POINTS OF A POINT CLOUD | May 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17296161 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING A NOTE PAGE OF A NOTEBOOK, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2021 | March 2024 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17325862 | FACE DETECTION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17295631 | Three-Dimensional Shape Reconstruction from a Topogram in Medical Imaging | May 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17322618 | CREATING HIGHLIGHT REELS OF USER TRIPS | May 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 35 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17321176 | AIRCRAFT CLASSIFICATION FROM AERIAL IMAGERY | May 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17293958 | EDGE PRESERVING PENALIZED RECONSTRUCTION FOR STEP-AND-SHOOT AND MOTION COMPENSATED POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRPAHY (PET) STUDIES | May 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17294071 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE | May 2021 | September 2024 | Abandon | 40 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17293772 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING SELF-IMPROVING VISUAL ODOMETRY | May 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17244474 | Method And Apparatus For Image Restoration, Storage Medium And Terminal | April 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17286877 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE OPERATION OF A MACHINE FOR HARVESTING ROOT CROP | April 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 46 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17232646 | ADAPTIVE MULTIMODAL SAFETY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | April 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17231958 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROBUST IMAGE-QUERY UNDERSTANDING BASED ON CONTEXTUAL FEATURES | April 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17228056 | SECURITY CAMERA COVERAGE TEST | April 2021 | February 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17283280 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR 3D SCENE AUGMENTATION AND RECONSTRUCTION | April 2021 | April 2024 | Abandon | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17281291 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, TRAINING METHOD OF NEURAL NETWORK, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2021 | October 2023 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17280136 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURFACE NORMALS SENSING WITH POLARIZATION | March 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M.
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 BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M works in Art Unit 2661 and has examined 128 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 80.5%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 31 months.
Examiner BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M's allowance rate of 80.5% places them in the 43% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M receive 1.62 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 44% 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 BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M is 31 months. This places the examiner in the 36% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +17.2% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M. This interview benefit is in the 63% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 38.5% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 85% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 31.6% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 38% 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, 0.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 10% 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.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 90% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1207.01, all appeals must go through a mandatory appeal conference. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration even before you file an Appeal Brief.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 75.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 90% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are frequently granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1002.02(c), various examiner actions are petitionable to the Technology Center Director, including prematureness of final rejection, refusal to enter amendments, and requirement for information. If you believe an examiner action is improper, consider filing a petition.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 19% 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 1.9% of allowed cases (in the 65% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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