Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17133841 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND PRINTING METHOD | December 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17129791 | DEFECT DETECTION FOR MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICES USING MACHINE LEARNING | December 2020 | October 2021 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17124172 | ALLOCATING COMPUTING RESOURCES DURING CONTINUOUS RETRAINING | December 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17121302 | Foveated Image Capture For Power Efficient Video See-Through | December 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17247283 | AUTONOMOUS INTELLIGENT DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND SERVER | December 2020 | March 2023 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17110492 | SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD | December 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17111229 | PRE-PROCESSING RAW DATA IN USER NETWORKS TO CREATE TRAINING DATA FOR SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORKS | December 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17108061 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE FAST ESTIMATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL BOUNDING BOXES AND DRIVABLE SURFACES USING LIDAR POINT CLOUDS | December 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17108985 | Separating Documents Based on Machine Learning Models | December 2020 | November 2022 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17104165 | METHOD FOR UPDATING PARAMETER OF MODEL, DISTRIBUTED TRAINING SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC DEVICE | November 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17056984 | DICTIONARY LEARNING DEVICE, DICTIONARY LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2020 | November 2022 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17096774 | IMAGE-TO-IMAGE TRANSLATION USING UNPAIRED DATA FOR SUPERVISED LEARNING | November 2020 | November 2022 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17092383 | A PRINT SYSTEM INCLUDING A LEARNED MODEL TO SELECT A PRINTER | November 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17091011 | UNIVERSAL FEATURE REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR FACE RECOGNITION | November 2020 | October 2022 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17053587 | DATA PROVIDING SYSTEM AND DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM | November 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17088629 | REAL-TIME SUPER RESOLUTION AT LONG STANDOFF RANGES | November 2020 | February 2023 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17087211 | DETECTOR-TRACKER ARCHITECTURE | November 2020 | February 2022 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17081656 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATICALLY PREDICTING THE REPAIR COSTS OF A DAMAGED VEHICLE FROM IMAGES | October 2020 | April 2021 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17075962 | LINE BASED MATCHING OF DOCUMENTS | October 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17060372 | SYSTEM AMD METHOD FOR DETERMINING TARGET FEATURE FOCUS IN IMAGE-BASED OVERLAY METROLOGY | October 2020 | September 2022 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17044468 | IMAGE-PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE-PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM IS STORED | October 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17035895 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE RECORDING JOB GROUPING METHOD | September 2020 | October 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17031966 | ANALYSIS APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ANALYSIS PROGRAM, AND ANALYSIS METHOD | September 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17023671 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EASY AND SECURE PRINTING AT KIOSKS WITHOUT ANY USER INTERVENTION | September 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17024562 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD | September 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17019917 | PRINTING SYSTEM, AND SET AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR | September 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17016854 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT PERFORMS RECOGNITION PROCESSING, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | September 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16979535 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND PLAQUE RECOGNITION | September 2020 | July 2023 | Allow | 34 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17015484 | DYNAMIC DETECTION OF CROSS-DOCUMENT ASSOCIATIONS | September 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17014106 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | September 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17014457 | Systems and Methods for Answering Region Specific Questions | September 2020 | December 2022 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17004128 | FIRST COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER-READABLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR FIRST COMMUNICATION DEVICE | August 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16976375 | IMAGE CLASSIFICATION METHOD, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM | August 2020 | August 2023 | Allow | 35 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17000363 | LEARNING SUPPORT DEVICE, LEARNING SUPPORT METHOD, LEARNING SUPPORT PROGRAM, REGION-OF-INTEREST DISCRIMINATION DEVICE, REGION-OF-INTEREST DISCRIMINATION METHOD, REGION-OF-INTEREST DISCRIMINATION PROGRAM, AND LEARNED MODEL | August 2020 | April 2022 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16983519 | SYSTEM, CLIENT TERMINAL, CONTROL METHOD FOR SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16942661 | PRINTING DEVICE RECOVERY | July 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16940642 | PROCESSING OPTICAL COHERENCY TOMOGRAPHY SCANS | July 2020 | July 2021 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16930382 | INTELLIGENT EXTRACTION OF INFORMATION FROM A DOCUMENT | July 2020 | August 2022 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16926495 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2020 | July 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16924978 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD | July 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16959919 | ANALYSIS INFORMATION COLLECTION PROGRAM AND ANALYSIS INFORMATION COLLECTION SYSTEM | July 2020 | January 2022 | Abandon | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16917443 | A SYSTEM HAVING AN APPARATUS, A SERVER, AND A TERMINAL THAT TRANSMITS AN IDENTIFIER OF AN APPLICATION ON THE TERMINAL TO THE SERVER | June 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16913994 | PRINTER DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR A PRINTER DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR AN INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR | June 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16958408 | LOGICAL CALCULATION DEVICE, LOGICAL CALCULATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | June 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16907923 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | June 2020 | February 2021 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16906958 | A PROCESSOR HAVING A PLURALITY OF CORES AND A CONTROLLER THAT SWITCHES POWER STATES BASED ON CORES STATE | June 2020 | September 2021 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16899161 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | June 2020 | August 2021 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16897565 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM ENABLING EASY CHECKING OF OCR ERROR IMAGE DATA, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | June 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16896942 | DATA SET CLEANING FOR ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING | June 2020 | July 2022 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16894372 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING THE HEALTH AND GENDER OF A CHICK | June 2020 | December 2021 | Abandon | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16872752 | LEARNING-BASED CAMERA POSE ESTIMATION FROM IMAGES OF AN ENVIRONMENT | May 2020 | February 2021 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16870672 | CROSS IN-DATABASE MACHINE LEARNING | May 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16860019 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | April 2020 | January 2023 | Allow | 32 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16857283 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR RECORDING AND PRINTING INFORMATION | April 2020 | May 2023 | Abandon | 37 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16855192 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS | April 2020 | February 2021 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16836174 | SMART DOCUMENT FORMAT SYSTEM | March 2020 | February 2021 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16832009 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM | March 2020 | April 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16831572 | Partitionable Networked Computer | March 2020 | December 2022 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16825222 | COIN IDENTIFICATION METHOD, DEVICE, AND CASH REGISTER | March 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16815032 | PREDICTING A BEHAVIOR OF A ROAD USED USING ONE OR MORE COARSE CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION | March 2020 | March 2022 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16812518 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM | March 2020 | January 2021 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16806603 | Smart Internet High-Definition Scanner with Laser Correction | March 2020 | January 2021 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16800328 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | February 2020 | March 2021 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16782152 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING IMAGE DATA, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | February 2020 | May 2022 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16636686 | PRINT JOB BACKUP | February 2020 | March 2021 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16749765 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | January 2020 | April 2021 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16632593 | CALCULATING CORRECTION FACTORS FOR SUBSEQUENT PRINTING OPERATIONS BY WEIGHTING MEASURED ALIGNMENT DIFFERENCES | January 2020 | November 2021 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16631665 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR GESTURE RECOGNITION | January 2020 | August 2022 | Abandon | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16742829 | IMAGE FILE GENERATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FILE GENERATING METHOD | January 2020 | November 2022 | Abandon | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16741519 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | January 2020 | January 2021 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 16740909 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | January 2020 | December 2020 | Allow | 11 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16741547 | AUTOMATED EXTRACTION OF PERFORMANCE SEGMENTS AND METADATA VALUES ASSOCIATED WITH THE PERFORMANCE SEGMENTS FROM CONTRACT DOCUMENTS | January 2020 | June 2022 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16710038 | METHOD OF PRODUCING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL, AND COPYING APPARATUS | December 2019 | July 2021 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16710528 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING TEXT REGIONS IN IMAGE, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | December 2019 | June 2022 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16704433 | COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS CONFIGURED FOR MACHINE LEARNING VERSION CONTROL OF DIGITAL OBJECTS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | December 2019 | March 2022 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16700648 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SCANNED DATA PROCESS METHOD | December 2019 | November 2020 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16682643 | CAUSAL REASONING FOR EXPLANATION OF MODEL PREDICTIONS | November 2019 | September 2022 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16676199 | NETWORK SYSTEM, INTERFACE BOARD, METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING ON AN NETWORK SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM | November 2019 | November 2020 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16670040 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION AND RECORDING MEDIUM | October 2019 | May 2021 | Abandon | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16669916 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | October 2019 | October 2020 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16657251 | MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINTING SYSTEM, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD | October 2019 | July 2021 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16655117 | Automated Content Validation and Inferential Content Annotation | October 2019 | January 2022 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16565417 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING A BUSINESS CARD USING FEDERATED LEARNING | September 2019 | January 2022 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16555249 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | August 2019 | October 2020 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16544890 | PRINT INSTRUCTION APPARATUS, PRINT SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | August 2019 | January 2021 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16543630 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | August 2019 | June 2022 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16457405 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | June 2019 | January 2021 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16442868 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | June 2019 | November 2019 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16435925 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS ACQUIRING BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION AND ASSOCIATING SAME WITH OPERATING STATE | June 2019 | December 2019 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 16423419 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM WITH REFRESH TOKENS TO PRINT USING A MOBILE APPLICATION | May 2019 | July 2020 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16410473 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD | May 2019 | October 2020 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16394602 | MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | April 2019 | April 2021 | Abandon | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 16392906 | TECHNIQUE FOR PROCESSING X-RAY DIFFRACTION DATA | April 2019 | August 2020 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16382445 | RECORDING MEDIUM, CONTROL METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | April 2019 | December 2021 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16368736 | PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM THAT STORES PROGRAM | March 2019 | August 2021 | Allow | 28 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16366467 | PRINTING SYSTEM, AND SET AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR | March 2019 | June 2020 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16365410 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | March 2019 | March 2020 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16336787 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISTANCE ESTIMATION BETWEEN SAMPLES | March 2019 | August 2020 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16355758 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND APPARATUS | March 2019 | February 2020 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16351804 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | March 2019 | August 2020 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner POPOVICI, DOV.
With a 60.0% reversal rate, the PTAB has reversed the examiner's rejections more often than affirming them. This reversal rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals are more successful here than in most other areas.
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 POPOVICI, DOV works in Art Unit 2677 and has examined 380 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 90.8%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 17 months.
Examiner POPOVICI, DOV's allowance rate of 90.8% places them in the 75% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by POPOVICI, DOV receive 0.98 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 7% 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 POPOVICI, DOV is 17 months. This places the examiner in the 96% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +33.2% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by POPOVICI, DOV. This interview benefit is in the 80% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews are highly effective with this examiner and should be strongly considered as a prosecution strategy. Per MPEP § 713.10, interviews are available at any time before the Notice of Allowance is mailed or jurisdiction transfers to the PTAB.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 36.6% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 84% 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 4.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 6% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner rarely enters after-final amendments compared to other examiners. You should generally plan to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry. Per MPEP § 714.12, primary examiners have discretion in entering after-final amendments, and this examiner exercises that discretion conservatively.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 44.4% of appeals filed. This is in the 11% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: This examiner rarely withdraws rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. If you file an appeal, be prepared to fully prosecute it to a PTAB decision. Per MPEP § 1207, the examiner will prepare an Examiner's Answer maintaining the rejections.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 41.2% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 30% 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 0.5% of allowed cases (in the 60% 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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 30% 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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