Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18906222 | INTERACTIVE LABELING METHOD FOR 3D DYNAMIC OBJECT BASED ON TIME SERIES DATA, KEY FRAMES, AND INTERPOLATED FRAMES | October 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18772067 | POWER SWITCHING TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSOR FOR ESTIMATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL POSITIONS OF A PLURALITY OF KEYPOINTS ALONG A TARGET OBJECT | July 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18761723 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, ESTIMATION METHOD, AND NON TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR ESTIMATING A POSITION OF A TARGET BY USING A WHOLE-BODY IMAGE | July 2024 | November 2025 | Abandon | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18584717 | GENERATING PREDICTIONS CHARACTERIZING IMAGES USING GLIMPSES EXTRACTED FROM THE IMAGES | February 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18435976 | VISUALIZATION OF A 3D MODEL OF A SUBJECT'S DENTITION BASED ON CHANGES TO A DENTAL TREATMENT PLAN | February 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18406682 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLOR CORRECTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS FORMED BY POINT CLOUD DATA POINTS | January 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18393552 | TECHNIQUES FOR SECURE VIDEO FRAME MANAGEMENT | December 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18516232 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENDOSCOPIC IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION | November 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18515838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBJECT TRACKING | November 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18505067 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE DATA PROCESSING TO CORRECT DOCUMENT DEFORMATIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM | November 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18501500 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTION, ADJUSTMENT AND DISPLAY OF MEDICAL IMAGES BASED ON DISPLACEMENT VECTOR FIELD DATA GENERATED BY A TRAINED MACHINE LEARNING PROCESS | November 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18497440 | SYSTEMS FOR WIDTH MEASUREMENT CORRECTIONS OF TEST SPECIMENS BASED ON BACKGROUND BRIGHTNESS DATA OF CAPTURED IMAGES | October 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18483258 | SELF-SUPERVISED DEEP LEARNING IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION WITH WEIGHTED TRAINING LOSS | October 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18376144 | Computer Vision Systems and Methods for Automatic Alignment of Parcels with Geotagged Aerial Imagery | October 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18238605 | STATIONARY MULTI-SOURCE AI-POWERED TOMOGRAPHY (SMART) IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHOD AND APPARATUS | August 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18453398 | CONTROLLING IMAGE ACQUISITION ROBOTS IN CONSTRUCTION SITES | August 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18236694 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING NON-COMPLIANT IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURES | August 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 7 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18356892 | MASK PROPAGATION FOR VIDEO SEGMENTATION | July 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18217823 | DATA ACQUISITION, PROCESSING, AND OUTPUT GENERATION FOR USE IN ANALYSIS OF ONE OR A COLLECTION OF PHYSICAL ASSETS OF INTEREST | July 2023 | November 2024 | Abandon | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18340389 | Aerial and/or Satellite Imagery-based, Optical Sensory System and Method for Quantitative Measurements and Recognition of Property Damage After An Occurred Natural Catastrophe Event | June 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18336181 | METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEDICAL IMAGE | June 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18251431 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR ESTIMATING RANGE OF MOTION OF A JOINT CONNECTING BONES | May 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18309090 | IMAGE SENSOR APPARATUS, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR CAPTURING IMAGE DATA OF SHIPPING CONTAINERS | April 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18307510 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION USING NON-VISIBLE LIGHT | April 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18130150 | UNDER-SAMPLED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION OF AN ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE BASED ON A MACHINE-LEARNED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION MODEL | April 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18186575 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR DETERMINING ATTACHMENT STATE OF IN-VEHICLE CAMERA | March 2023 | December 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18183931 | MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION METHOD BASED ON BOOSTING-UNET SEGMENTATION NETWORK | March 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18024365 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE TO OBTAIN A FUSED IMAGE BY PERFORMING FUSION PROCESSING BASED ON MASKS | March 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18021854 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ANALYZING PLANT IMAGE DATA AND PROJECTING PLANT GROWTH AND HEALTH STATUS | February 2023 | October 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18100948 | ARTIFACT AND/OR MOVEMENT CORRECTION IN MEDICAL IMAGES | January 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18157296 | EASE OF IMAGE ANNOTATION VIA CURVED PLANAR REFORMATION | January 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18084606 | RENDERING AUGMENTED REALITY VIDEO USING FILTERED POINT-TO-POINT IMAGE MATCHES TO COMPUTE PERSPECTIVE-N-POINT CAMERA POSES | December 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18059013 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING SPATIAL TILES OF A STILL IMAGE BASED ON APPLIED QUALITY LEVELS | November 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17927856 | METHOD FOR RECONSTRUCTING AN IMAGE, IN PARTICULAR AN EXACT COLOR IMAGE, AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER PROGRAM, DEVICE AND SYSTEM | November 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18056778 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZED ITERATIVE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION | November 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17990193 | DETECTION OF CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH OBSTACLES BY AERIAL VEHICLES | November 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17985236 | METHOD FOR REDUCING NOISE IN A MEDICAL IMAGE SLICE BY INPUTTING PLURAL SLICE IMAGES INTO A TRAINED NEURAL NETWORK | November 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 20 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 17924580 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL CAMERA HIGHLIGHT CREATION | November 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17971295 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CELL NUMBER COUNT IN AUTOMATED STEREOLOGY Z-STACK IMAGES | October 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17968645 | PERFORMING SEGMENTATION OF OBJECTS IN MEDIA ITEMS BASED ON USER INPUT | October 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17963927 | ACCELERATED IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEMS INCLUDING AN X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION SYSTEM USING A PROJECTION OPERATOR MATRIX | October 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17955011 | Vehicle Supply Chain Tracking System | September 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 15 | 3 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 17936121 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING GOODS RELATIVE TO A STORAGE VESSEL | September 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17952810 | VISUAL ATTENTION TRACKING USING GAZE AND VISUAL CONTENT ANALYSIS | September 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17951899 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING PANORAMIC IMAGE BASED ON DEEP LEARNING NETWORK | September 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17950698 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UPDATING TEMPLATE LIBRARY BASED ON LIFE VALUE OF FACIAL TEMPLATE IMAGES | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17948775 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING BREAST SLICE IMAGES THROUGH AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TO PREDICT ABNORMALITIES IN BREASTS | September 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17906559 | PERIPHERY DETECTION DEVICE FOR WORK MACHINE | September 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17641671 | Remote Sensing Image Geometric Normalization Method and Apparatus | September 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17931859 | SEGMENTATION MASK EXTRAPOLATION | September 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17929223 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A LINE THAT REPRESENTS DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES BASED ON MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING | September 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17896958 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ENCODING AND DECODING FEATURE MAPS BASED ON COMPRESSED FEATURE FRAME INFORMATION | August 2022 | September 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17821058 | DEEP LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK TRAINED TO PERFORM INFERENCING TASKS ON MEDICAL IMAGES WITH ROBUSTNESS AGAINST SPATIAL RESOLUTION VARIATIONS | August 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 41 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17799829 | QUANTIFYING PLANT INFESTATION BY ESTIMATING THE NUMBER OF BIOLOGICAL OBJECTS ON LEAVES, BY CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS THAT USE TRAINING IMAGES OBTAINED BY A SEMI-SUPERVISED APPROACH | August 2022 | November 2025 | Allow | 39 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17885055 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, FERTILIZED EGG EVALUATION METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM | August 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17816678 | TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK USING A DATA SET WITH LABELS OF MULTIPLE GRANULARITIES | August 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17862440 | CHARGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND IDENTIFYING A VEHICLE AND UTILIZING THIS INFORMATION IN A CHARGING APPLICATION | July 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17856370 | TECHNIQUES FOR REDUCING A DISTRACTION IN AN IMAGE | July 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17850618 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED END-TO-END TEXT EXTRACTION OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS | June 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17808448 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EARLY DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION OF A LESION | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17839805 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A LOCATION OF AN UNLOCATED SHORT TERM RENTAL USING IMAGE RECOGNITION | June 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17835817 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND IMAGE SYNTHESIS FOR OBTAINING A TARGET FACE IMAGE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | June 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17781284 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING INDUSTRIAL CABLES | May 2022 | May 2025 | Abandon | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17804268 | PROTECTING IMAGE FEATURES IN STYLIZED REPRESENTATIONS OF A SOURCE IMAGE | May 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17804100 | VIDEO IMAGE COMPOSITION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | May 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17743892 | VISUAL LOCALIZATION METHOD AND APPARATUS | May 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17743644 | PREVIEWING AND GENERATING STROKE OUTLINES IN ASSOCIATION WITH IMAGES | May 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17710503 | Method for Controlling an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to Avoid Obstacles | March 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17700655 | MOTION DETECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | March 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17640571 | MODEL GENERATION APPARATUS, MODEL GENERATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | March 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17685383 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERSON RE-IDENTIFICATION | March 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17635775 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER RECORDING MEDIUM FOR SYNTHESIZING A CORRECTED IMAGE WITH A TARGET IMAGE TO BE PROCESSED TO GENERATE A NEW IMAGE | February 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17635792 | TRAJECTORY PREDICTION USING DIRECTED GRAPH AND DESTINATION FEATURES | February 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17673370 | CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD IMPLEMENTING IMAGE ENHANCEMENT FOR IMPROVED DEFECT DETECTION | February 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 44 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17578659 | METHOD OF DETECTING AN ABNORMALITY AND ABNORMALITY DETECTION DEVICE | January 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17597658 | TIME AND POSITION BASED BINNING OF IMAGE DATA | January 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17577124 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CONVERTING A LIGHT SOURCE SENSING IMAGE OF A SUBJECT INTO AN IMAGE LAYER TO GENERATE IMAGE DATA AND A METHOD OF OPERATING THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | January 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17575317 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEIDENTIFYING DRIVER IMAGE DATASET | January 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17626694 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AN APPLICATION MAP FOR TREATING A FIELD WITH AN AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT | January 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17647412 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING LITHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF CUTTINGS BASED ON CALIBRATED PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROCK PARTICLES | January 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17646904 | VEHICULAR TRAILER ANGLE DETECTION SYSTEM FOR FIFTH-WHEEL TRAILERS | January 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17560682 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING IMAGE FEATURES OF ANATOMICAL PARTS FROM EXAMINATION IMAGES OF A SUBJECT | December 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 39 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17560818 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING REAL SCENE MAP | December 2021 | January 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17621592 | IMAGE ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD THAT EXPRESSES AN IMAGE WITH PIXELS, BLOCKS, AND COLORS. | December 2021 | August 2025 | Abandon | 43 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17620063 | BARRIER DATA COLLECTION DEVICE, BARRIER DATA COLLECTION METHOD, AND BARRIER DATA COLLECTION PROGRAM | December 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17539737 | MEDICAL IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 40 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17612978 | METHOD FOR PLANTATION TREATMENT BASED ON IMAGE RECOGNITION | November 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17525213 | APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH MULTI-IMAGE PANOPTIC SEGMENTATION | November 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17523866 | FINGERPRINT SENSOR IMAGE CALIBRATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17488982 | CONTENT ADAPTIVE FILTERING VIA RINGING ESTIMATION AND SUPPRESSION | September 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17438099 | FUNCTION ENABLING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | September 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17470484 | OPTICAL SENSING APPARATUS WITH DEACTIVATED PHOTODETECTOR REGIONS AND METHOD THEREOF | September 2021 | October 2024 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16783400 | 4D CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR VIDEO RECOGNITION | February 2020 | May 2020 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 16258322 | SEMANTIC IMAGE SYNTHESIS FOR GENERATING SUBSTANTIALLY PHOTOREALISTIC IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORKS | January 2019 | February 2023 | Abandon | 49 | 10 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 16191835 | VISON-BASED OBJECT DETECTION USING A POLAR GRID | November 2018 | February 2020 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15937098 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ULTRASONIC IMAGING APPARATUS, AND IMAGING PROCESSING METHOD FOR THE SAME | March 2018 | October 2019 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15793370 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING AN ACTION BASED ON A DETECTED PERSON | October 2017 | March 2019 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 15697220 | GENERATING A BREATHING ALERT | September 2017 | December 2019 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15545346 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR IDENTIFYING CELLS OF BLOOD VESSEL WALL | July 2017 | May 2019 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 15655065 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SHAPE ADAPTATION FOR MERGED OBJECTS IN VIDEO ANALYTICS | July 2017 | November 2019 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO 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, 50.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M works in Art Unit 2677 and has examined 51 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 94.1%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 35 months.
Examiner RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M's allowance rate of 94.1% places them in the 82% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M receive 2.35 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 67% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M is 35 months. This places the examiner in the 40% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a -0.5% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by RIVERA-MARTINEZ, GUILLERMO M. This interview benefit is in the 11% 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, 24.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 34% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show below-average effectiveness with this examiner. Carefully evaluate whether an RCE or continuation is the better strategy.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 54.5% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 81% 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, 100.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 73% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. If you have strong arguments, a PAC request may result in favorable reconsideration.
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, 33.3% 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, 85.7% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 87% 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 2.0% of allowed cases (in the 74% 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 29% 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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