USPTO Examiner WAIT CHRISTOPHER - Art Unit 2681

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18615571ANTI-LEAK DIGITAL DOCUMENT MARKING SYSTEM AND METHOD USING DISTRIBUTED LEDGERMarch 2024July 2024Allow310NoNo
18424760WATERMARKING METHOD FOR HIGH-DEFINITION MAP BASED ON INVISIBLE CHARACTERSJanuary 2024April 2024Allow200NoNo
18495340ANTI-LEAK DIGITAL DOCUMENT MARKING SYSTEM AND METHOD USING DISTRIBUTED LEDGEROctober 2023December 2023Allow200NoNo
18467615IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2023May 2024Allow800NoNo
18459723COLORBLIND ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPROVE IMAGE RENDERING BY GENERATING A COLOR TRANSLATION TABLE FOR COLOR VISION DEFICIENT USERSSeptember 2023May 2024Allow800NoNo
18449610Image Analysis System for Testing in ManufacturingAugust 2023February 2024Allow700NoNo
18362298SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSING A CAPTURED IMAGE OF A MAILPIECE OR PARCELJuly 2023February 2024Allow700NoNo
18348299Color RenderingJuly 2023February 2024Allow700YesNo
18205429SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITALLY WATERMARKING RESOURCES PRODUCED BY AN ONLINE SOFTWARE PLATFORMJune 2023March 2024Allow1010NoNo
18205422SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITALLY WATERMARKING RESOURCES PRODUCED BY AN ONLINE SOFTWARE PLATFORMJune 2023March 2024Allow1010NoNo
18322155KINEMATIC ASSESSMENT AND VERIFICATION OF PAPER DOCUMENTS FOR PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS THEREOFMay 2023January 2024Allow800NoNo
18144525SIGNAL ENCODING FOR ALUMINUM ALLOY CONTAINERSMay 2023November 2023Allow700NoNo
18134330ANTI-LEAK DIGITAL DOCUMENT MARKING SYSTEM AND METHOD USING DISTRIBUTED LEDGERApril 2023July 2023Allow300NoNo
18177233IMAGE INSPECTION DEVICE FOR INSPECTING IMAGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR FORMING IMAGE, AND PROGRAM FOR INSPECTION DEVICEMarch 2023February 2024Allow1210NoNo
18020183FULLY INTEGRATED DIGITAL COLOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEMFebruary 2023July 2023Allow500NoNo
18102557READING APPARATUS AND METHODJanuary 2023December 2023Allow1110NoNo
18157552INSPECTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOFJanuary 2023July 2023Allow600YesNo
18146024SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES AND MACHINE-ENCODED TEXTDecember 2022September 2023Allow900NoNo
18062213INSPECTING FOR A DEFECT ON A PRINT MEDIUM WITH AN IMAGE ALIGNED BASED ON AN OBJECT IN THE IMAGE AND BASED ON VERTICES OF THE INSPECTION TARGET MEDIUM AND THE REFERENCE MEDIUMDecember 2022March 2024Allow1520YesNo
17993515SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE APPLICATION OF ADAPTIVE VIDEO WATERMARKSNovember 2022November 2023Allow1210YesNo
17972322COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR EMBEDDING A MARKER IN AN IMAGE OR VIDEO CONTENT AND CORRESPONDING MARKER DETECTION METHODOctober 2022November 2023Allow1200NoNo
17898284SCANNER AGNOSTIC SYMBOL PRINT QUALITY TOOLAugust 2022January 2024Allow1600NoNo
17870830MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING IMAGES FROM A CONSTRAINED SET OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT MODELS ASSOCIATED WITH PRESCRIBED SCENE TYPESJuly 2022March 2023Allow810YesNo
17870613METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING MOVING SPEED OF ENDOSCOPE CAMERA IN GASTROINTESTINAL TRACTJuly 2022August 2024Allow2500NoNo
17833683ENCODING SIGNALS WITH PRINTED CLEAR TOPCOATSJune 2022October 2023Allow1600NoNo
17780609METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING A RASTER IMAGE FILEMay 2022September 2023Allow1600NoNo
17827365METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR CONFIGURING OBJECT LOCALIZERSMay 2022April 2023Allow1100NoNo
17721425TRAINED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL FOR RAW TO RGB IMAGE TRANSFORMATIONApril 2022March 2024Allow2310NoNo
17722159USING WATERMARK INFORMATION AND WEIGHT INFORMATION TO TRAIN AN EMBEDDED NEURAL NETWORK MODELApril 2022January 2024Allow2110YesNo
17721313POSE CALIBRATION METHOD, ROBOT AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMApril 2022June 2024Allow2600NoNo
17768528METHOD FOR PROTECTING COPYRIGHT OF LIGHT FIELD CONTENTApril 2022April 2024Allow2410NoNo
17710064IMAGE ENCRYPTION METHOD USING LINE INTERLACING AND IMAGE DECRYPTION APPARATUS THEREFORMarch 2022June 2024Allow2600NoNo
17764622IMAGING SYSTEM AND MONITORING SYSTEM USING LEARNING DEVICEMarch 2022August 2023Allow1710NoNo
17674031SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING IMAGE DATA IN REMOTE LOCATIONSFebruary 2022December 2023Allow2200NoNo
17597899METHOD OF GENERATING A SECURE IMAGEJanuary 2022May 2024Allow2800NoNo
17582911PDF EMBEDDER FOR ARTWORK ELEMENTS WITH PDF FILESJanuary 2022January 2023Allow1210NoNo
17565847ASSOCIATING LABELS BETWEEN MULTIPLE SENSORSDecember 2021April 2024Allow2800NoNo
17560861PRIVACY-PRESERVING RECONSTRUCTION FOR COMPRESSED SENSINGDecember 2021April 2024Allow2700NoNo
17537022COLOR MANAGED EMBEDDING SYSTEM FOR EMBEDDING SIGNALS IN COLOR ARTWORKNovember 2021December 2022Allow1310NoNo
17513320MULTI-SLICE MRI DATA PROCESSING USING DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUESOctober 2021December 2023Allow2500NoNo
17509590ESTIMATING A THICKNESS OF CORTICAL REGION BY EXTRACTING A PLURALITY OF INTERFACES AS MESH DATAOctober 2021May 2024Allow3110NoNo
17404330IMAGE PIXEL COLOR CAST CORRECTIONAugust 2021February 2024Allow3010YesNo
17342720CONTROL APPARATUS, COLOR ADJUSTMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJune 2021April 2024Allow3420YesNo
17303340COLOR PROFILE AND SUBSTRATE MISMATCH DETERMINATIONSMay 2021May 2024Abandon3510NoNo
17298012IMPROVED IMAGE WATERMARKED WITH A STRING ASSOCIATED WITH IMAGE METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH THE IMAGEMay 2021November 2023Allow3010YesNo
17314436METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR INK LIMIT ADJUSTMENTS TO ICC PROFILES FOR COLOR PRINTINGMay 2021October 2023Allow2911NoNo
17230916CONVERT A DOT AREA RATIO OF A TARGET PROCESS COLOR USING A FLUORESCENT COLOR FOR HIGHER BRIGHTNESS AND SATURATIONApril 2021May 2023Allow2520NoNo
17211001MULTI-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DETECTION ON AT LEAST TWO ACQUIRED IMAGESMarch 2021August 2023Allow2810NoNo
17119478INSPECTION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR ERRONEOUS ATTACHMENT USING IMAGE COLOR CONVERSIONDecember 2020May 2023Allow2910NoNo
17014321DETERMINE DEPTH WITH PIXEL-TO-PIXEL IMAGE CORRESPONDENCE FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER VISIONSeptember 2020April 2024Allow4310NoNo
16933336METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSOR AND DEVICE FOR OBSERVING AN OBJECT CONTAINING A BOLUS OF A FLUOROPHOREJuly 2020August 2023Allow3700NoNo

Appeals Overview

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Examiner WAIT, CHRISTOPHER - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner WAIT, CHRISTOPHER works in Art Unit 2681 and has examined 15 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 93.3%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 29 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner WAIT, CHRISTOPHER's allowance rate of 93.3% places them in the 80% 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 WAIT, CHRISTOPHER receive 0.87 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 6% 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 WAIT, CHRISTOPHER is 29 months. This places the examiner in the 65% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +8.3% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by WAIT, CHRISTOPHER. This interview benefit is in the 39% 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, 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.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 50.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 75% 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.

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 96% 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 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:

  • Consider after-final amendments: This examiner frequently enters after-final amendments. If you can clearly overcome rejections with claim amendments, file an after-final amendment before resorting to an RCE.
  • 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.

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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