Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19078229 | Method, System, and Computer-Readable Medium for Training a Captioner Model to Generate Captions for Video Content by Analyzing and Predicting Cinematic Elements | March 2025 | August 2025 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 19037493 | SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF VIDEO DATA FOR EVENT DETECTION AND VALIDATION | January 2025 | July 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18959339 | Integration of Video Language Models with AI for Filmmaking | November 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18943015 | AUTOMATIC ITEM RECOGNITION FROM CAPTURED IMAGES DURING ASSISTED CHECKOUT | November 2024 | July 2025 | Abandon | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18935742 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BOUNDING BOX TO FRACTURED BODY PARTS IN MUSCULOSKELETAL X-RAY | November 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18785077 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY PROCESSING DOCUMENTS | July 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18767449 | APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF DE-IDENTIFICATION OF MEDICAL IMAGES | July 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18720042 | AUTOMATED IMAGE-BASED ROCK TYPE IDENTIFICATION WITH NEURAL-NETWORK SEGMENTATION AND CONTINUOUS LEARNING | June 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18676179 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF RETINAL IMAGES | May 2024 | August 2025 | Abandon | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18713653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A PERSON IN A VIDEO | May 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18652364 | Apparatus and Method for Training a Machine Learning Model to Augment Signal Data and Image Data | May 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18634433 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE, AND APPARATUS TO RECALIBRATE CONFIDENCES FOR IMAGE CLASSIFICATION | April 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18620136 | Instance Level Scene Recognition with a Vision Language Model | March 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18616635 | LINKING DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF MULTI-FEATURE AND MULTI-MODAL INFORMATION TO A UNIQUE OBJECT IN A DATA SPACE, USING ATTENTION-BASED FUSED EMBEDDINGS AND RDBMS, IDENTIFYING A UNIQUE ENTITY FROM PARTIAL OR INCOMPLETE IMAGE QUERY DATA, AND DISPLAYING LOCATION AND ACQUISITION TIME USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | March 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 18692516 | OBJECT RECOGNITION | March 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18589742 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETERMINE VEGETATION ENCROACHMENT ALONG A RIGHT-OF-WAY | February 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 16 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18439213 | Methods and Devices for Binary Entropy Coding of Point Clouds | February 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18421740 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING/RECONSTRUCTING ATTRIBUTES OF POINTS OF A POINT CLOUD | January 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18411471 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE PROFILING | January 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18576652 | QUALITY FACTOR USING RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES | January 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18393238 | MULTIMODAL DATA PROCESSING | December 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18391276 | INTERSECTION REGION DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION FOR AUTONOMOUS MACHINE APPLICATIONS | December 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18545220 | ANGLE DETECTING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ANGLE DETECTION AND ANGLE DETECTING METHOD | December 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18532846 | Elongated Fingerprint Sensor | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18567860 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN IMAGE DESCRIPTOR, ENCODING PIPELINE, AND VISUAL PLACE RECOGNITION METHOD | December 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18565409 | METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING AN IMAGE FROM A VARIABLE FOCUS OPTICAL DEVICE | November 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18517407 | TRANSLATING IMAGES BASED ON SEMANTIC INFORMATION | November 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18515237 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL REAL-TIME POSITIONING COMPENSATION METHOD FOR SURGERY | November 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18511575 | DETERMINING EMITTER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION TO A DESIRED ACCURACY | November 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18503048 | VIDEO DATA ACQUISITION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR QUARTERBACK SELECTION BY THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE | November 2023 | April 2025 | Abandon | 17 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18289382 | SPATIAL MODE PROCESSING FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING | November 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18492532 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE, AND APPARATUS TO CLASSIFY LABELS BASED ON IMAGES USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | October 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18492321 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING LANE CROSSINGS AND CLASSIFYING LANE CHANGES | October 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18484374 | METHOD FOR DIVERSE SEQUENTIAL POINT CLOUD FORECASTING | October 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18554338 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ENCODING/DECODING POINT CLOUD GEOMETRY DATA CAPTURED BY A SPINNING SENSORS HEAD | October 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18377649 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR IMPROVING THE EXPLAINABILITY OF SATELLITE IMAGE | October 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18553688 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFYING MOSQUITO LARVAE BASED ON EXTRACTED MASKS OF ANATOMICAL COMPONENTS FROM IMAGES | October 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18551919 | FEW-SHOT OBJECT DETECTION METHOD | September 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18254833 | VIDEO CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | September 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18369958 | SHAPE SPACE GENERATION VIA PROGRESSIVE CORRESPONDENCE ESTIMATION | September 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18467415 | NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT DETECTION IN A POINT CLOUD, METHOD AND VEHICLE | September 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18459769 | OBJECT IDENTIFICATION AND LABELING WITH SIGN LANGUAGE | September 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18237937 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | August 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18238180 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING INCOMING OBSERVATION TO BE OUT-OF-DISTRIBUTION (OOD) SAMPLE DURING NEURAL NETWORK (NN) INFERENCE | August 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18237270 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR OBJECT DETECTION COVERAGE ESTIMATION | August 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18453213 | METHOD FOR VERIFYING THE IDENTITY OF A USER BY IDENTIFYING AN OBJECT WITHIN AN IMAGE THAT HAS A BIOMETRIC CHARACTERISTIC OF THE USER AND MOBILE DEVICE FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD | August 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18365631 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY VALIDATING EVIDENCE OF TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS USING AUTOMATICALLY DETECTED CONTEXT FEATURES | August 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18230120 | OBJECT INGESTION AND RECOGNITION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | August 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18358375 | PROVIDING USER GUIDANCE TO USE AND TRAIN A GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK | July 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18353453 | SURROUND SCENE PERCEPTION USING MULTIPLE SENSORS FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS | July 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18260250 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM | July 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18345301 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING INTRA PREDICTION MODE | June 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18345350 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING INTRA PREDICTION MODE | June 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18334840 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION OF EXECUTING LEARNING MODELS IN VEHICLE SYSTEMS | June 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18334030 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIAGNOSING ERROR OF OBJECT PLACEMENT USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK | June 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18208655 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC TUMOR DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION | June 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18207788 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING DIRECT CONVERSION OF IMAGE SENSOR DATA TO IMAGE ANALYTICS | June 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18327385 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING PRIVATE VIDEO | June 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18039269 | IMPROVED NOISE REDUCTION AUTO-ENCODER-BASED ANOMALY DETECTION MODEL TRAINING METHOD | May 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18309335 | TRAINING NEURAL NETWORKS WITH A LESSER REQUIREMENT FOR LABELLED TRAINING DATA | April 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18308767 | MULTI-MODAL AUTOMATED EVALUATION FOR IMPROVED ACCESSIBILITY | April 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18137108 | COMPOSITE CAR IMAGE GENERATOR | April 2023 | January 2025 | Abandon | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18032357 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRAINING AND TUNING NEURAL NETWORK MODELS FOR DENOISING | April 2023 | December 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18191939 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUAL INSPECTION OF SIGNAL LIGHTS AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS | March 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18028827 | MAPPING BETWEEN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AND ANGIOGRAPHY FOR CO-REGISTRATION OF INTRAVASCULAR DATA AND BLOOD VESSEL METRICS WITH COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY-BASED THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL | March 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18189459 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS | March 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18160872 | DETECTING CHANGES IN FOREST COMPOSITION | January 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18098349 | LIGHTWEIGHT IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS | January 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18150287 | METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING ACTIVATED LAMPS AT A VEHICLE | January 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18149035 | AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TEACHING VIDEOS BASED ON DIFFERENT PRESENTATION FORMS | December 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18078368 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND VEHICLE HAVING THE SAME | December 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17986081 | MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17984731 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETECTING HAND REGION | November 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17984631 | DETECTION AND FILTERING OF ABNORMAL SENSOR DATA FOR OBJECT DETECTION IN AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS | November 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17996894 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR KEYPOINT DETECTION BASED ON NEURAL NETWORKS | October 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18048528 | CHANGE DETECTION DEVICE AND RELATED METHODS | October 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18047780 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM | October 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17952062 | VISUAL DETECTION AND PREDICTION OF SENTIMENT | September 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17944863 | Enrollment Using Synthetic Fingerprint Image and Fingerprint Sensing Systems | September 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17944809 | STATE-BASED BASE CALLING | September 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 31 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17930663 | DIRECT CLASSIFICATION OF RAW BIOMOLECULE MEASUREMENT DATA | September 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17823806 | MULTI-SENSOR TEST DEVICE FOR QUALITY CONTROL SCANNING | August 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17802063 | DATA GENERATION METHOD, LEARNING METHOD, AND ESTIMATION METHOD | August 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17819743 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2022 | September 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17877446 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERRING A THIRD PARTY FROM COPYING A PRODUCT OR PROCESS | July 2022 | December 2025 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17796129 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | July 2022 | October 2025 | Abandon | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17793951 | Generating Computer Augmented Maps from Physical Maps | July 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17865261 | METHOD FOR MATCHING IMAGE FEATURE POINT, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17864835 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS PERFORMING COLOR CONVERSION AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING | July 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17863515 | SYSTEM FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE EMOTIONS OF A DRIVER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE | July 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17849858 | QUALITY MONITORING AND CONTROLS FOR A COMMINUTION SYSTEM USING IMAGING OF MATERIAL IN A DISCHARGE STAGE | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17840747 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING TRAFFIC LIGHT, DEVICE, CLOUD CONTROL PLATFORM AND VEHICLE-ROAD COORDINATION SYSTEM | June 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17783410 | Program and Communications System | June 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17834822 | AUTOMATIC CALIBRATION | June 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17832906 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK TO PERFORM OBJECT DETECTION USING LIDAR SENSORS AND RADAR SENSORS | June 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17804730 | System and Method to Detect LEDs and Their States in an AR Context | May 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17826497 | PHOTOGRAPHIC DEVICE AND AI-BASED OBJECT RECOGNITION METHOD THEREOF | May 2022 | April 2025 | Abandon | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17774455 | VISUAL OBJECT DETECTION IN A SEQUENCE OF IMAGES | May 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17733812 | Artificial Intelligence Driven Automated Atomic Manipulation | April 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17727604 | Semi Supervised Training from Coarse Labels of Image Segmentation | April 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SHAH, UTPAL D.
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 SHAH, UTPAL D works in Art Unit 2668 and has examined 96 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 99.0%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.
Examiner SHAH, UTPAL D's allowance rate of 99.0% places them in the 92% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by SHAH, UTPAL D receive 1.29 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 18% 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 SHAH, UTPAL D is 30 months. This places the examiner in the 60% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +1.2% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SHAH, UTPAL D. This interview benefit is in the 20% 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, 42.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 93% 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 53.3% 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.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 92% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 100.0% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). 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, 100.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 91% 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 4.2% of allowed cases (in the 84% percentile). Per MPEP § 1302.04, examiner's amendments are used to place applications in condition for allowance when only minor changes are needed. This examiner frequently uses this tool compared to other examiners, indicating a cooperative approach to getting applications allowed. Strategic Insight: If you are close to allowance but minor claim amendments are needed, this examiner may be willing to make an examiner's amendment rather than requiring another round of prosecution.
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 28% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions less often than average. Allowances may 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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