Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17139729 | MOBILE APPLICATION FOR AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION ENROLLMENT USING INFORMATION SYNTHESIS AND BIOMETRIC LIVENESS DETECTION | December 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17257543 | FAKE FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME | December 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17136172 | LIVENESS DETECTION IN FINGERPRINT-BASED BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS | December 2020 | June 2021 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17136036 | IMAGE CONTENT EXTRACTION METHOD AND IMAGE CONTENT EXTRACTION DEVICE | December 2020 | July 2024 | Abandon | 43 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17134140 | METHOD FOR BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION, FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | December 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17131525 | METHODS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE FOR INTERACTIVE IMAGE SEGMENTATION | December 2020 | March 2024 | Allow | 38 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17130653 | AGGREGATING SENSOR PROFILES OF OBJECTS | December 2020 | January 2024 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17120809 | ANALYZING FACIAL RECOGNITION DATA AND SOCIAL NETWORK DATA FOR USER AUTHENTICATION | December 2020 | June 2023 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17102337 | EYE GAZE TRACKING USING NEURAL NETWORKS | November 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16953484 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING FINGERPRINT BASED ON SENSOR-TO-FINGER DISTANCE | November 2020 | October 2021 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17056031 | METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING A USER | November 2020 | December 2021 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17054845 | ULTRASONIC FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION COMPONENT, FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION DEVICE AND FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION DRIVING METHOD | November 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17088619 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING BIOMETRIC SENSOR | November 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17080211 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, SERVER AND SYSTEM | October 2020 | February 2023 | Abandon | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17050193 | FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION STRUCTURE AND DISPLAY DEVICE | October 2020 | July 2023 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17066121 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PEOPLE FLOW ANALYSIS USING SIMILAR-IMAGE SEARCH | October 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17061848 | FINGERPRINT READER | October 2020 | October 2022 | Abandon | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17037701 | ULTRASONIC FINGERPRINT SENSOR AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | September 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17038996 | ALIGNMENT SYSTEM | September 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17033423 | IDENTIFYING OBJECTS WITHIN IMAGES FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES | September 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17025840 | FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | September 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17023992 | DEVICE AND METHOD TO ACQUIRE TIMING OF BLINK MOTION PERFORMED BY A DIALOGUE DEVICE | September 2020 | January 2024 | Allow | 40 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16979880 | DISPLAY MODULE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF | September 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17017597 | LEARNING AND PROPAGATING VISUAL ATTRIBUTES | September 2020 | October 2023 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17016162 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING NEGATIVE SAMPLE OF FACE RECOGNITION, AND COMPUTER DEVICE | September 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17010323 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE INCLUDING FACE AUTHENTICATION, CONTROL METHOD, AND MEDIUM | September 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17009030 | CALIBRATION METHOD FOR FINGERPRINT SENSOR AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME | September 2020 | December 2021 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 16977212 | DYNAMIC LIGHTING FOR IMAGE-BASED VERIFICATION PROCESSING | September 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17006256 | FACIAL LIVENESS DETECTION WITH A MOBILE DEVICE | August 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17003178 | EYE-PROTECTION MODE PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE, TERMINAL AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM IN FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION MODE | August 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16998710 | BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION METHOD WITH DRIFT CONTROL, AND AN ASSOCIATED INSTALLATION | August 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16996962 | FACE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND FACE IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | August 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16989974 | FINGERPRINT SENSOR PACKAGE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | August 2020 | May 2022 | Abandon | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16941581 | Method for Recognzing Face from Monitoring Video Data | July 2020 | October 2021 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16940955 | PIEZOELECTRIC PANEL SPEAKER AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | July 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16937470 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONOCULAR DEPTH ESTIMATION FROM SEMANTIC INFORMATION | July 2020 | January 2024 | Allow | 41 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16927812 | FACE RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS, CLASSIFICATION MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER DEVICE | July 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16961306 | FACE AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS | July 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16923969 | FACE DETECTION TO ADDRESS PRIVACY IN PUBLISHING IMAGE DATASETS | July 2020 | November 2022 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16959220 | FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION CIRCUIT AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION MODULE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | June 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16914303 | LARGE-SCALE SIMILARITY SEARCH WITH ON-CHIP CACHE | June 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16957363 | FACE SYNTHESIS | June 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16957219 | ULTRASONIC FINGERPRINT SENSOR APPARATUS, METHOD OF OPERATING ULTRASONIC FINGERPRINT SENSOR APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF FABRICATING ULTRASONIC FINGERPRINT SENSOR APPARATUS | June 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16903276 | METHOD FOR REGISTERING FINGERPRINT, TERMINAL AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | June 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16901619 | SYSTEMS FOR OBSCURING IDENTIFYING INFORMATION IN IMAGES | June 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16900955 | BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION | June 2020 | April 2022 | Abandon | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16899314 | MODULATING MOBILE-DEVICE DISPLAYS BASED ON AMBIENT SIGNALS TO REDUCE THE LIKELIHOOD OF FRAUD | June 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16897291 | FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION CARD | June 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16894942 | METHOD OF ENROLLING A NEW MEMBER TO A FACIAL IMAGE DATABASE | June 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16890484 | FACIAL RECOGNITION METHOD AND APPARATUS | June 2020 | June 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16649748 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR LIVENESS DETECTION, ELECTRONIC DEVICES, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIA | May 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16767932 | TEXTURE IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD, TEXTURE IMAGE ACQUISITION CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY PANEL | May 2020 | December 2021 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16882918 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION | May 2020 | January 2022 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16880435 | METHOD OF GENERATING FINGERPRINT IMAGE AND FINGERPRINT SENSOR | May 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16876767 | REDUCING THE SEARCH SPACE FOR RECOGNITION OF OBJECTS IN AN IMAGE BASED ON WIRELESS SIGNALS | May 2020 | December 2021 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15931718 | UNLOCKING METHOD FOR AN ELECTRONIC LOCK | May 2020 | July 2021 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16872640 | VISUALIZING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL PERFORMANCE FOR NON-TECHNICAL USERS | May 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16870943 | System and Method for Constructing a 3D Scene Model From an Image | May 2020 | January 2023 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16864103 | LIVING BODY RECOGNITION METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER DEVICE | April 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16846924 | PROCESSING IMAGES USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS | April 2020 | January 2021 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16845911 | FINGERPRINT SENSOR | April 2020 | November 2020 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16753762 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FINGERPRINT IMAGE ENHANCEMENT | April 2020 | March 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16839211 | ULTRASONIC RECOGNITION MODULE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND DISPLAY DEVICE | April 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16838024 | Multi-Camera Multi-Face Video Splicing Acquisition Device and Method Thereof | April 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16652034 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONVERSATION SERVICE BY USING AUTONOMOUS BEHAVIOR ROBOT, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | March 2020 | September 2022 | Abandon | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16833472 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | March 2020 | July 2021 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16649735 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR PROCESSING IMAGE AND IDENTITY VERIFICATION, ELECTRONIC DEVICES, AND STORAGE MEDIA | March 2020 | October 2021 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16814917 | OPERATING A FINGERPRINT SENSOR COMPRISED OF ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS AND A PRESENCE SENSOR | March 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16645000 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION | March 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16801243 | RECOGNITION APPARATUS, RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | February 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16795725 | AI POWERED, FULLY INTEGRATED, END-TO-END RISK ASSESSMENT PROCESS TOOL | February 2020 | April 2023 | Abandon | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16791404 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING DISPLAY MODULE INCLUDING SENSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE DISPLAY MODULE | February 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16781554 | FEATURE EXTRACTION AND MATCHING FOR BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION | February 2020 | July 2020 | Allow | 5 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 16781269 | FEATURE EXTRACTION AND MATCHING FOR BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION | February 2020 | May 2020 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16634286 | Driving Method and an Apparatus for a Fingerprint Recognition Device | January 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16751849 | ULTRASONIC FINGERPRINT SENSOR WITH LOW-FREQUENCY VIBRATION SOURCE | January 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16740508 | INTERNAL THERMAL FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD OF OIL-IMMERSED TRANSFORMER BASED ON DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK AND IMAGE SEGMENTATION | January 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16630199 | Ultrasonic Signal Detecting Circuit, Ultrasonic Signal Detecting Method, and Display Panel | January 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16736301 | Systems and Methods for Face Recognition | January 2020 | November 2021 | Abandon | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16734870 | SMART CARD WITH FINGERPRINT SENSING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | January 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16730634 | IMAGE MODULE AND BIOMETRIC DEVICE USING THE SAME | December 2019 | June 2021 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16728056 | APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH USER VERIFICATION | December 2019 | March 2022 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16712341 | METHOD OF OPERATING FINGERPRINT SENSING SYSTEM, AND FINGERPRINT SENSING SYSTEM | December 2019 | January 2021 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16710539 | Using Voice Commands From A Mobile Device To Remotely Access And Control A Computer | December 2019 | March 2023 | Abandon | 39 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16710692 | Using Voice Commands From A Mobile Device To Remotely Access And Control A Computer | December 2019 | March 2023 | Abandon | 39 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 16700634 | CONTROLLING ACCESS TO ITEMS IN AN INVENTORY LOCATION | December 2019 | August 2020 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16696371 | CAPACITANCE MODULATION TO MITIGATE PIXEL LEAKAGE IN ULTRASONIC SENSORS | November 2019 | November 2021 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16692148 | CONTEXT DRIVEN MODEL SELECTION | November 2019 | May 2022 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16615852 | DISPLAY PANEL | November 2019 | December 2021 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16687118 | FEATURE-BASED VIDEO ANNOTATION | November 2019 | August 2021 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16680548 | METHOD OF HOST-DIRECTED ILLUMINATION AND SYSTEM FOR CONDUCTING HOST-DIRECTED ILLUMINATION | November 2019 | January 2021 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16654156 | DEFORMABLE FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION DEVICE, AND FINGERPRINT AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS USING THE SAME | October 2019 | February 2021 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16605550 | FINGERPRINT AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD PROVIDING FOR REDUCED LATENCY | October 2019 | April 2021 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16605073 | METHOD FOR FINGERPRINT AUTHENTICATION USING FORCE VALUE | October 2019 | September 2021 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16595774 | GENERATIVE MODEL TRAINING AND IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD | October 2019 | January 2022 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16587134 | VIDEO FACE CLUSTERING DETECTION WITH INHERENT AND WEAK SUPERVISION | September 2019 | August 2020 | Allow | 11 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 16584770 | Imager for Detecting Visual Light and Projected Patterns | September 2019 | September 2021 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16572051 | ARRANGEMENT FOR THE OPTICAL RECORDING OF LIVE SKIN AREAS OF HUMAN AUTOPODIA AND OF DOCUMENTS | September 2019 | May 2020 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16570877 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETERMINE A TIMING UPDATE FOR AN IMAGE RECOGNITION MODEL | September 2019 | September 2021 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16564976 | Method for Fingerprint Enrollment, Terminal, and Non-Transitory Computer Readable Storage Medium | September 2019 | July 2021 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner WERNER, BRIAN P.
With a 50.0% 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, 40.0% 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 WERNER, BRIAN P works in Art Unit 2665 and has examined 842 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 89.5%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 22 months.
Examiner WERNER, BRIAN P's allowance rate of 89.5% places them in the 72% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by WERNER, BRIAN P receive 1.25 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 14% 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 WERNER, BRIAN P is 22 months. This places the examiner in the 87% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +4.9% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by WERNER, BRIAN P. This interview benefit is in the 31% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 32.2% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 69% 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 69.5% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 92% 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, 200.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 95% 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 60.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 36% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 33.3% 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, 58.3% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 59% 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 1.0% of allowed cases (in the 66% 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 7.4% of allowed cases (in the 87% 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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