USPTO Examiner DOTTIN DARRYL V - Art Unit 2681

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18673140STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUSMay 2024April 2025Allow1110NoNo
18655075IMAGE READING APPARATUSMay 2024November 2024Allow700NoNo
18584155PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMFebruary 2024April 2025Allow1320NoNo
18431892METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR VERIFYING PRINTED INDICIAFebruary 2024September 2024Allow800NoNo
18428554IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJanuary 2024January 2025Allow1110NoNo
18413099PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINTED OBJECT, AND PRINT CONTROL PROGRAMJanuary 2024June 2025Allow1720NoNo
18408402INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INSPECTION APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHODJanuary 2024May 2025Allow1610NoNo
18407144PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUSJanuary 2024May 2025Allow1610NoNo
18404428PRINTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND JOB SETTING METHODJanuary 2024June 2025Allow1710NoNo
18400759Computer-Implemented Method for Generating a Decorative Pattern for Decorative Panels, and Manufacturing Method of Such PanelsDecember 2023July 2025Abandon1810NoNo
18397339PRINTER REGISTERING SET OF GLYPH DATA IN GLYPH INDEX TABLE AND USING THE SET OF GLYPH DATA WHEN GENERATING RASTER DATADecember 2023December 2024Allow1100NoNo
18396863PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMDecember 2023August 2024Allow810NoNo
18393749IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING METHODDecember 2023April 2025Allow1610NoNo
18393245METHODS FOR SMART SPOT COLOR MANAGEMENT IN PRINTING OPERATIONSDecember 2023August 2024Allow810NoNo
18536949CLOUD PRINT SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND MEDIUMDecember 2023September 2024Allow910NoNo
18520353PRINTING SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMNovember 2023February 2025Allow1410NoNo
18510768IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM GENERATING A FIRST DOT PATTERN AND A SECOND DOT PATTERN PRINTED TO OVERLAP THE FIRST DOT PATTERN BY QUANTIZING IMAGE DATA BASED ON A THRESHOLD MATRIXNovember 2023October 2024Allow1110NoNo
18561015OPTIMIZING MEMORY SIZENovember 2023April 2025Allow1710YesNo
18505147DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH ONE-KEY PRINTING AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFNovember 2023January 2025Allow1530NoNo
18497235IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUMOctober 2023February 2025Allow1610NoNo
18494795PRINT INSTRUCTION SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PRINT INSTRUCTION PROGRAMOctober 2023October 2025Abandon2340NoNo
18483505CHIP, CHIPSET, ELECTRICAL PARAMETER DETECTION METHOD,CONSUMABLE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUSOctober 2023January 2025Allow1520NoNo
18475389PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUMSeptember 2023July 2025Abandon2240NoNo
18280392SHRINK FILM COLOUR ADJUSTMENTSeptember 2023March 2025Allow1910NoNo
18364512PRINT CONTROL SYSTEM, PRINT CONTROL METHOD, PRINT CONTROL DEVICE, AND MEDIAAugust 2023April 2025Allow2120NoNo
18362299DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MANAGING MACHINE TROUBLES, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM WITH MACHINE TROUBLE MANAGEMENT DEVICEJuly 2023January 2025Allow1810YesNo
18358686INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJuly 2023December 2024Allow1720NoNo
18269969METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING READING OF MEDICAL IMAGESJune 2023July 2025Allow2500NoNo
18341338IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJune 2023June 2024Allow1220YesNo
18321052POINTING CALIBRATION FOR ANTENNAMay 2023August 2025Allow2600NoNo
18031578IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUSApril 2023July 2025Allow2710NoNo
18118250SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY ESTIMATING KNEE CARTILAGE THICKNESS FOR FEMORAL, TIBIAL, PATELLAR, AND MENISCAL CARTILAGESMarch 2023May 2025Allow2600NoNo
18179590INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SETTING METHOD, INSPECTION SYSTEM, AND MEDIUMMarch 2023March 2025Allow2410NoNo
18023266METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING HDR VIDEO DISPLAY PROCESSING, AND STORAGE MEDIUM AND TERMINALFebruary 2023April 2025Allow2600NoNo
18022365QUALITY INSPECTION METHOD AND QUALITY INSPECTION ARRANGEMENTFebruary 2023July 2025Allow2910NoNo
18170434INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR COLOR VERIFICATIONFebruary 2023March 2025Allow2540YesNo
18084427METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT NORMALIZE IMAGES, GENERATE QUANTITATIVE ENHANCEMENT MAPS, AND GENERATE SYNTHETICALLY ENHANCED IMAGESDecember 2022June 2025Allow3000NoNo
18055980DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT METHODNovember 2022July 2025Allow3210NoNo
17971344SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC ENTROPY CODINGOctober 2022February 2025Allow2800NoNo
17966521SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA EXTRACTIONOctober 2022April 2025Allow3000NoNo
17949434SUBSTITUTIONAL QUALITY FACTOR LEARNING IN THE LATENT SPACE FOR NEURAL IMAGE COMPRESSIONSeptember 2022March 2025Allow3000NoNo
17947553MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2022May 2025Allow3220YesNo
17944881SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR SYSTEMATICALLY DETERMINING AN OPTIMAL APPROACH FOR THE COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS OF A PULMONARY EMBOLISMSeptember 2022October 2024Allow2500NoNo
17930157MULTI-CAMERA FACE SWAPPINGSeptember 2022April 2025Allow3110NoNo
17823953SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANTAugust 2022September 2025Abandon3620NoNo
17908068ADAPTIVE WAVELET DENOISINGAugust 2022November 2024Allow2700NoNo
17802081TARGET AREA DETECTION DEVICE, TARGET AREA DETECTION METHOD, AND TARGET AREA DETECTION PROGRAMAugust 2022May 2025Abandon3310NoNo
17821335AUTOMATIC BRAIN MODEL EXTRACTIONAugust 2022September 2024Allow2500NoNo
17890280IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHODAugust 2022May 2025Allow3310NoNo
17888322Object Identification Using Surface Optical ArtifactsAugust 2022January 2025Allow2910NoNo
17799290DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SUPPORT DEVICE, DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING SUPPORT METHODAugust 2022July 2025Allow3510NoNo
17877575Radar-Based Activity ClassificationJuly 2022November 2024Allow2700NoNo
17866574MULTI-TARGET TRACKING METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMJuly 2022January 2025Allow3010NoNo
17860935AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF REGIONS OF INTEREST FROM ANNOTATED IMAGES WITH OCCLUDING LABELSJuly 2022February 2025Allow3110NoNo
17851133METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FEATURES OF A WATER LAYER BETWEEN ENCLOSURE LAYERS OF SINGLE UNIT DOSE PRODUCTSJune 2022September 2024Allow2600NoNo
17787546METHOD BASED ON IMAGE CONDITIONING AND PREPROCESSING FOR HUMAN EMBRYO CLASSIFICATIONJune 2022July 2024Allow2500YesNo
17786911METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DIAGNOSING VISION LOSS AND PROVIDING VISUAL COMPENSATIONJune 2022August 2024Allow2600NoNo
17834123COMPUTER-BASED WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING PROCESSESJune 2022August 2024Allow2620YesNo
17832635EXTRACTION OF TEXTUAL CONTENT FROM VIDEO OF A COMMUNICATION SESSIONJune 2022February 2025Allow3220YesNo
17832640RESOLUTION-BASED EXTRACTION OF TEXTUAL CONTENT FROM VIDEO OF A COMMUNICATION SESSIONJune 2022December 2024Allow3010NoNo
17664312MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUSMay 2022August 2024Allow2700NoNo
17746240DETECTING AND SEGMENTING REGIONS OF INTEREST IN BIOMEDICAL IMAGES USING NEURAL NETWORKSMay 2022July 2024Allow2600NoNo
17744299Randomized dimension reduction for magnetic resonance image iterative reconstructionMay 2022December 2024Allow3110NoNo
177759443D OBJECT DETECTIONMay 2022December 2024Allow3110NoNo
17775696SUBJECT POSE CLASSIFICATION USING JOINT LOCATION COORDINATESMay 2022December 2024Allow3110NoNo
17738745HIP ARTHROPLASTY DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION SYSTEMMay 2022October 2024Allow2910NoNo
17731936DETECTION OF MANUAL ENTRY ERRORApril 2022November 2024Allow3110YesNo
17730377CODING FOR MULTIPLEXED FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPYApril 2022July 2024Allow2600NoNo
17729385PARAMETERIZING X-RAY SCATTERING MEASUREMENT USING SLICE-AND-IMAGE TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING OF SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURESApril 2022December 2024Allow3220NoNo
17711030LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND LEARNING PROGRAMApril 2022November 2024Abandon3210NoNo
17705293DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS AND DISTANCE MEASURING METHODMarch 2022December 2024Allow3320YesNo
17701854END-TO-END SCENE GRAPH GENERATIONMarch 2022February 2025Allow3520YesNo
17633929BODILY FLUID TESTING METHODFebruary 2022April 2025Allow3810NoNo
17559665SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CROSS-DOMAIN TRAINING OF SENSING-SYSTEM-MODEL INSTANCESDecember 2021May 2025Allow4110NoNo
17498944THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCANNING AND IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION THEREOFOctober 2021July 2025Allow4510NoNo
17388517PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTAL DATA FOR VEHICLESJuly 2021March 2025Allow4410YesNo

Appeals Overview

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Examiner DOTTIN, DARRYL V - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner DOTTIN, DARRYL V works in Art Unit 2681 and has examined 3 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 100.0%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 44 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner DOTTIN, DARRYL V's allowance rate of 100.0% places them in the 96% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by DOTTIN, DARRYL V receive 1.00 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 9% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by DOTTIN, DARRYL V is 44 months. This places the examiner in the 15% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +0.0% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by DOTTIN, DARRYL V. This interview benefit is in the 14% 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.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 50.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 97% 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.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 22% 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 29% 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:

  • RCEs are effective: This examiner has a high allowance rate after RCE compared to others. If you receive a final rejection and have substantive amendments or arguments, an RCE is likely to be successful.
  • Plan for extended prosecution: Applications take longer than average with this examiner. Factor this into your continuation strategy and client communications.

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

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