USPTO Examiner FITZPATRICK ATIBA O - Art Unit 2677

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18933677HIGH-RESOLUTION MAGNETIC RESONANCE FINGERPRINTING METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON RADIO FREQUENCY ENCODINGOctober 2024February 2025Allow410NoNo
18923569METHOD FOR REGISTERING TWO OR MORE PATIENT IMAGES FOR CHANGE ASSESSMENT OVER TIMEOctober 2024April 2025Allow610YesNo
18885516SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED STANDARD OF CARE SUPPORTSeptember 2024June 2025Allow920YesNo
18885518SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED WARNING OF POTENTIAL HEALTH CONCERNSSeptember 2024March 2025Allow610YesNo
18885514MULTI SENSOR HANDHELD MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC DEVICESeptember 2024February 2025Allow510YesNo
18885524AI ENABLED MULTISENSOR CONNECTED TELEHEALTH SYSTEMSeptember 2024November 2024Allow200NoNo
18812179METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTING SYNTAX SCORE USING CARDIO ANGIOGRAMAugust 2024February 2025Allow610NoNo
18808442APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR LEVERAGING A REPOSITORY OF IMAGES CONTAINING IMPLANT DEVICES IN A HUMAN BODYAugust 2024October 2024Allow200NoNo
18623130MULTI-RIGID REGISTRATION OF MAGNETIC NAVIGATION TO A COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY VOLUMEApril 2024June 2025Allow1520NoNo
18409744SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION USING PATTERNS AND BLOOD FLOW CHARACTERISTICS OF THE OUTER EYEJanuary 2024October 2024Allow910YesNo
18403045SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING BOOKMARK VIDEO FINGERPRINTSJanuary 2024March 2025Abandon1410NoNo
18391955IDENTIFYING CANDIDATE CELLS USING IMAGE ANALYSIS WITH OVERLAP THRESHOLDSDecember 2023April 2025Abandon1510NoNo
18531500SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR NON-INVASIVE IMAGE-BASED PLAQUE ANALYSIS AND RISK DETERMINATIONDecember 2023January 2025Allow1410YesNo
18514316GUIDANCE ACQUISITION DEVICE FOR ASCERTAINING CAUSE OF AUTHENTICATION ERROR AND PROVIDING GUIDANCE, GUIDANCE ACQUISITION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMNovember 2023May 2025Allow1820NoNo
18487083SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE PROCESSINGOctober 2023November 2024Allow1310YesNo
18481958SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING OF DENTAL IMAGESOctober 2023November 2024Allow1310NoNo
18481912SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR INSERTION OF AN INSTRUMENT INTO A BODY CAVITY FOR PERFORMING A SURGICAL PROCEDUREOctober 2023March 2025Abandon1710NoNo
18477593Three-Dimensional Segmentation from Two-Dimensional Intracardiac Echocardiography ImagingSeptember 2023September 2024Allow1200NoNo
18451599SYSTEM FOR UPDATING A PREDICTABLE OUTCOMEAugust 2023January 2025Allow1710YesNo
18340051FORECAST OF MRI IMAGES BY MEANS OF A FORECAST MODEL TRAINED BY SUPERVISED LEARNINGJune 2023July 2024Allow1310NoNo
18339779PLATFORMS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED CELL CULTUREJune 2023August 2024Allow1410YesNo
18190775PLATFORMS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED CELL CULTUREMarch 2023August 2024Allow1730YesNo
18173906SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PRECISION TUMOR DELINEATION IN CANCER TREATMENT OR DIAGNOSIS FOR SUBJECTS WITH CARCINOMA BASED ON CONTRAST AGENT-FREE, VIRTUAL CONTRAST-ENHANCED MRI DATAFebruary 2023June 2025Allow2700NoNo
18168400MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR PROCESSING PEDIATRIC SIMPLE X-RAY IMAGE USING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THEREFORFebruary 2023May 2025Allow2700NoNo
18060688SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPARING SPECT AND PET IMAGE DATA IN THERANOSTICSDecember 2022May 2025Allow3010YesNo
17929208ON-SENSOR DATA GUARDIANSeptember 2022February 2025Allow3000NoNo
17886172IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUSAugust 2022December 2024Allow2800NoNo
17879099THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE REGISTRATION METHOD AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE DATA PROCESSING DEVICEAugust 2022April 2025Abandon3310NoNo
17759737SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ARTIFACT REDUCTION IN TOMOSYNTHESIS WITH DEEP LEARNING IMAGE PROCESSINGJuly 2022March 2025Allow3210NoNo
17856374METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH OBJECT TRACKINGJuly 2022February 2025Allow3110YesNo
17834263EX VIVO SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE EFFECT OF A DRUG OR OTHER AGENT ON A TISSUEJune 2022January 2025Allow3210NoNo
17733490SELF-ADJUSTING BIOMETRIC SENSORApril 2022December 2024Allow3210NoNo
17666613IMAGE RECOGNITION DEVICE, IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM, IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITRY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUMFebruary 2022August 2024Allow3000NoNo
17665741EVALUATING PERFORMANCE METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELASTIC MATERIALFebruary 2022June 2025Allow4030YesNo
17588948DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM FOR EVALUATION AN OBJECT BASED ON A PERSISTENCE DIAGRAM FROM TIME-SERIES IMAGE DATAJanuary 2022April 2025Allow3830YesNo
17581158SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING SUPER FEATURESJanuary 2022July 2024Allow3001NoNo
17628750CONFIDENCE DETERMINATION OF 3D POINT CLOUD DATA ACQUIRED BY LIDAR SENSORJanuary 2022August 2024Allow3110YesNo
17568455SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE COMPARISON USING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL VECTORSJanuary 2022February 2025Abandon3820NoNo
17566268MOVING OBJECT AND OBSTACLE DETECTION PORTABLE DEVICE USING A MILLIMETER WAVE RADAR AND CAMERADecember 2021June 2025Allow4130NoNo
17559638Automatic Reduction of the Appearance of Mach Band Effect on RadiographsDecember 2021July 2024Allow3110NoNo
17516464MIMICKED MACHINE-READABLE CODES, AND METHODSNovember 2021September 2024Allow3411NoNo
17511718HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE VIDEO COLOR REMAPPINGOctober 2021June 2024Allow3210YesNo
17511571DUAL DISTANCED SENSING METHOD FOR PASSIVE RANGE FINDINGOctober 2021April 2025Allow4140YesNo
17510909IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR GENERATING AND DISPLAYING IMAGE INCLUDING TWO OR MORE PIXELS WITH DIFFERENTIATED DISPLAY STATESOctober 2021December 2024Allow3720YesNo
17435053IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE FOR REDUCING CROSSTALKAugust 2021October 2024Allow3730NoNo
17384883COKE MORPHOLOGY BY IMAGE SEGMENTATIONJuly 2021January 2025Allow4220YesYes
17421387PICTURE RENDERING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL AND CORRESPONDING STORAGE MEDIUMJuly 2021May 2025Abandon4740NoNo
17296653APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING REGIONS IN A BRAIN IMAGEMay 2021August 2024Allow3920NoNo
17279162METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING AT LEAST ONE MICROORGANISM ACCORDING TO THE STAINING KINETICS THEREOF, AND DETECTION SUPPORTMarch 2021August 2024Allow4120NoNo
17129456METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IMPROVE DRIVER-ASSISTANCE VISION SYSTEMS USING OBJECT DETECTION BASED ON MOTION VECTORSDecember 2020January 2025Abandon4920YesNo
17036589Evaluating Currency in Areas Using Image ProcessingSeptember 2020August 2024Allow4651NoNo
16360895IMAGE IN-PAINTING FOR IRREGULAR HOLES USING PARTIAL CONVOLUTIONSMarch 2019May 2025Allow6070YesYes
13504762METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING FATIGUE DRIVING AND THE AUTOMOBILE USING THE SAMEApril 2012October 2014Allow2910NoNo
13504164X-RAY CT APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD OF X-RAY CT APPARATUSApril 2012March 2014Allow2200NoNo
13440677METHOD FOR THE FULLY AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF AN ORGAN, IN PARTICULAR THE RENAL PARENCHYMA, FROM VOLUME DATA SETS IN MEDICAL IMAGINGApril 2012September 2013Allow1800YesNo
13498595DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SOFT TISSUE CONTRAST IMAGESMarch 2012February 2014Allow2310NoNo
13315970WORKSTATIONS WITH CIRCUITS FOR GENERATING IMAGES OF GLOBAL INJURYDecember 2011September 2013Allow2101YesNo
13207997IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH CONTROL OF IMAGE TRANSFER PRIORITYAugust 2011February 2014Allow3030NoNo
13207572INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTAugust 2011July 2014Allow3531NoNo
13133038READY AUTOMATED SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS & CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE USING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SIGNAL FROM VENTRICULAR ZONE CONTOUR OF BRAINAugust 2011June 2013Allow2510NoNo
13204593PREDICTIVE FLIGHT PATH AND NON-DESTRUCTIVE MARKING SYSTEM AND METHODAugust 2011February 2014Allow3011YesNo
12998830METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING OBJECTS AND FOR TRACKING OBJECTS IN A PRODUCTION PROCESSJune 2011August 2014Allow3840YesNo
13152129SOFTWARE PRODUCT FOR BREAST EXAMINATION RESULT MAPPING, RECORDING, COMPARING, AND/OR TRACKINGJune 2011December 2013Allow3021YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner FITZPATRICK, ATIBA O.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
3
Allowed After Appeal Filing
0
(0.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
3
(100.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
4.3%
Lower than average

Understanding Appeal Filing Strategy

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.

Strategic Recommendations

Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.

Examiner FITZPATRICK, ATIBA O - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner FITZPATRICK, ATIBA O works in Art Unit 2677 and has examined 52 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 88.5%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner FITZPATRICK, ATIBA O's allowance rate of 88.5% places them in the 65% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by FITZPATRICK, ATIBA O receive 1.60 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 42% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by FITZPATRICK, ATIBA O is 30 months. This places the examiner in the 42% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +11.4% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by FITZPATRICK, ATIBA O. This interview benefit is in the 50% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 35.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 73% 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.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 33.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 41% 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.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

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 11% 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.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 90% 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.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 133.3% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 99% 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 Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 20% 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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 26% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions less often than average. Allowances may come directly without a separate action for formal matters.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:

  • Appeal filing as negotiation tool: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Relevant MPEP Sections for Prosecution Strategy

  • MPEP § 713.10: Examiner interviews - available before Notice of Allowance or transfer to PTAB
  • MPEP § 714.12: After-final amendments - may be entered "under justifiable circumstances"
  • MPEP § 1002.02(c): Petitionable matters to Technology Center Director
  • MPEP § 1004: Actions requiring primary examiner signature (allowances, final rejections, examiner's answers)
  • MPEP § 1207.01: Appeal conferences - mandatory for all appeals
  • MPEP § 1214.07: Reopening prosecution after appeal

Important Disclaimer

Not Legal Advice: The information provided in this report is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. You should consult with a qualified patent attorney or agent for advice specific to your situation.

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