Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18669295 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, OUTPUT SYSTEM, AND OUTPUT METHOD | May 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18614834 | PRINTING CONTROL DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING CONTROL DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM | March 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18395404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE ENCRYPTED CODES ASSOCIATED WITH A DOCUMENT | December 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18543464 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | December 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18528831 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | December 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18519185 | INK JET SYSTEM | November 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18504996 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18387446 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SETTING PRINT START POSITION FOR BACK SIDE OF RECORDING PAPER SHEET BASED ON MARGIN FORMED BY REDUCING IMAGE FOR BACK SIDE IN SIZE | November 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18462362 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | September 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18230241 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18229768 | PRINTING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING CONVENIENCE OF SETTING SHEET SETTINGS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 22 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18363425 | PRINTING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18303312 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 20 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18135234 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18297445 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | April 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18193155 | CONTROL METHOD FOR FORMING AN IMAGE, IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18184053 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR ACCEPTING INPUT OPERATIONS FROM MOBILE TERMINAL | March 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 20 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18183382 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PREVENTING UNINTENDED CHANGE OF SETTINGS INFORMATION OF SHEET FEEDER, METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18113212 | PRINTING APPARATUS PRINTING ONE OR MORE IMAGE SETS, CONTROL METHOD OF PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | February 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 20 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18018842 | CONTENT-BASED PRINTING | January 2023 | November 2024 | Abandon | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18101209 | IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS USING A MEASURED TEMPERATURE, IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | January 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18059353 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD EXECUTED BY THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 22 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17923600 | RESPIRATION INFORMATION ESTIMATION DEVICE AND RESPIRATION INFORMATION ESTIMATION METHOD | November 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18050828 | SERVER SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SERVER SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | October 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18050313 | SERVER SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | October 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17918260 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PREDICT RF HEATING OF MEDICAL IMPLANTS | October 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17938302 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | October 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 27 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 17915183 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR VISUALIZATION OF AN ELONGATED ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE | September 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17896271 | PROCESSING DEVICE, ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING CAPTURED IMAGE | August 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17822085 | INSPECTION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM FOR INSPECTING PRINT PRODUCT | August 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17882991 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM | August 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17876713 | GENOMIC BIOMARKER PREDICTION FROM MEDICAL IMAGES | July 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17873053 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF VISUAL EVENTS IN TRANSPORTATION ENVIRONMENTS | July 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17664370 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING BACKLIGHT OF IMAGE | May 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17735507 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED ARRANGEMENTS FOR PROCESSING IMAGE HAVING ARTICLE OF INTEREST | May 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17772846 | SEMI-AUTOMATIC IMAGE DATA LABELING METHOD, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17715971 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD | April 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17714157 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | April 2022 | May 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17712617 | TEMPORAL AUGMENTATION FOR TRAINING VIDEO REASONING SYSTEM | April 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17709418 | COMPUTING DEVICE, COMPUTING METHOD, AND COMPUTING PROGRAM | March 2022 | December 2024 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17764100 | Light Weight Multi-Branch and Multi-Scale Person Re-Identification | March 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17498494 | Methods and Systems for Selectively Preventing Operation of a Component | October 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15454532 | FACSIMILE COMMUNICATION | March 2017 | February 2019 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15437807 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING AN IMAGE | February 2017 | September 2018 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15351754 | STORING PREFLIGHT DATA OF A PRINT JOB BASED ON PAGE RANGES | November 2016 | February 2019 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 15333727 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | October 2016 | April 2018 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 15009255 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | January 2016 | December 2017 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14883150 | CALIBRATION SYSTEM, CALIBRATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR COORDINATING COLOR VALUE OF OUTPUT COLOR OF ONE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH COLOR VALUE OF OUTPUT COLOR OF ANOTHER IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS | October 2015 | June 2017 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 14857850 | Recording Medium That Stores Printing Program for Instructing Image Forming Apparatus of Print Job Based on Variable Print Data | September 2015 | June 2017 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 14851591 | WRITE CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, WRITE CONTROL METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM | September 2015 | May 2018 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 14667161 | Printing Device Searching and Management System and Method | March 2015 | August 2016 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 14596413 | STORAGE AND ACCESS OF JOB TICKET VALUES | January 2015 | August 2016 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 14244606 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | April 2014 | October 2016 | Allow | 30 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 13288853 | NETWORK SYSTEM, SERVER, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, LOG REGISTRATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM | November 2011 | June 2015 | Allow | 43 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 12640809 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SELECT A PAPER SOURCE FOR IMAGE PRINTING | December 2009 | January 2017 | Allow | 60 | 5 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 12059986 | APPROACH FOR PRINTING POLICY-ENABLED ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS USING LOCKED PRINTING AND A SHARED MEMORY DATA STRUCTURE | March 2008 | December 2015 | Allow | 60 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 11613068 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REPOSITIONING ON USER DEFINED BOUNDARIES IN A PRESENTATION DATA STREAM | December 2006 | July 2016 | Allow | 60 | 6 | 0 | Yes | Yes |
| 10421738 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD | April 2003 | March 2008 | Allow | 59 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 10054652 | SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING THE SPEED OF DATA PROCESSING | January 2002 | November 2007 | Allow | 60 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 09885945 | CARD MAKING DEVICE, CARD MAKING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF | June 2001 | December 2007 | Allow | 60 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner MILIA, MARK R.
With a 33.3% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. This reversal rate is above the USPTO average, indicating that appeals have better success here than typical.
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, 25.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is below the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal has limited effectiveness in prompting favorable 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 shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner MILIA, MARK R works in Art Unit 2681 and has examined 58 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 94.8%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 24 months.
Examiner MILIA, MARK R's allowance rate of 94.8% places them in the 85% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by MILIA, MARK R receive 1.90 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 60% 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 MILIA, MARK R is 24 months. This places the examiner in the 72% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +6.7% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by MILIA, MARK R. This interview benefit is in the 35% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
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 27.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 30% 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.
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.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 57.1% of appeals filed. This is in the 25% 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, 0.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 2% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are rarely granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing a petition, as the Technology Center Director typically upholds this examiner's decisions.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 1.7% of allowed cases (in the 75% 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 26% 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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