Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18618201 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR STORING LOG INFORMATION AND DELETING LOG IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST FROM AN INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | March 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18534838 | PRINTING APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING JOB PRIORITY BASED ON INSTALLED ROLL MEDIA, CONTROL METHOD OF PRINTING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18529553 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING A MENU CORRESPONDING TO A REGISTERED TERMINAL | December 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18378926 | IIMAGE INSPECTION DEVICE FOR DETECTING ABNORMALITIES AND CREATING AN ANALYSIS | October 2023 | February 2025 | Abandon | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18479148 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE FOR PREVIEWING IMAGE TO BE PRINTED ON 3D OBJECT | October 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 18 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18468961 | COMPLEX COLOR SPACE CONVERSION USING CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS | September 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18461277 | INDUSTRIAL PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINT SERVER, AND PROCESSING MANAGEMENT METHOD THAT PRINT PEER-TO-PEER ACCORDING TO ATTRIBUTE OF PRINTING APPARATUS AT DISTRIBUTED DESTINATION IN PRODUCTION PRINTING | September 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18451956 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL AND TERMINAL, EXCLUSIVE USAGE MODE CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 18 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18258920 | METHODS FOR EVALUATING RHEOTAXIS QUALITY IN A SPERM-CONTAINING SAMPLE AND SYSTEMS THEREFOR | June 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18333668 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING METAL STRUCTURE FOR ARRANGING A CONTROL BOARD AND A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BOARD | June 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18314681 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALCULATING REFUELING TANKER BOOM TIP 3D POSITION FOR AERIAL REFUELING | May 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18144048 | METHOD OF DETECTING MOVING OBJECTS, DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18170642 | DETECTING AT LEAST ONE EMERGENCY VEHICLE USING A PERCEPTION ALGORITHM | February 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18158536 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING TWO AUTHENTICATION STEPS AND SELECTING A PROCESSING FUNCTION BASED ON FIRST AUTHENTICATION | January 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18006490 | NEUROIMAGING METHODS AND SYSTEMS | January 2023 | November 2025 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18099830 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ORDER OF DISPLAY SETTING HISTORY INFORMATION | January 2023 | September 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 4 | 1 | No | No |
| 18152509 | PRINTING FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PRINTING FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PRINTING FILE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR SETTING A STORAGE PERIOD FOR A PRINTING FILE | January 2023 | October 2024 | Abandon | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18145891 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER-READABLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR TERMINAL DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING NOTIFICATION INFORMATION, TERMINAL DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING NOTIFICATION INFORMATION, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TERMINAL DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING NOTIFICATION INFORMATION | December 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18059872 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS WITH CONTROL SUBSTRATES WITHIN A DOCUMENT FEED UNIT | November 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17911428 | MEDICAL INFORMATION CONTROL SYSTEM, SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, AND MEDICAL INFORMATION CONTROL METHOD | September 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17941612 | TRIGGER GESTURE FOR SELECTION OF AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENT IN MESSAGING SYSTEMS | September 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17901829 | DOCUMENT CREATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM TO GENERATE MEDICAL DOCUMENT BASED ON MEDICAL IMAGES | September 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17818167 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING IMAGE PRINT POSITION BASED UPON A CHANGE IN PAPER SHAPE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS | August 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17871878 | DIGITAL TISSUE SEGMENTATION AND MAPPING WITH CONCURRENT SUBTYPING | July 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17785955 | APPARATUS FOR COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY X-RAY DATA ACQUIRED AT HIGH RELATIVE PITCH | June 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17840886 | IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR JETTING QUALITY CLASSIFICATION IN ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | June 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17840320 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING FIRST AND SECOND CIRCULAR FISHEYE RAW IMAGES AND NOT PROCESSING PIXELS OUTSIDE OF THE FISHEYES | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17778623 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD | May 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17756172 | NAVIGATION METHOD FOR POSITIONING A MEDICAL ROBOT | May 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17746638 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT STORES DESTINATION INFORMATION AND ERASES THE INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO A TRIGGER | May 2022 | November 2024 | Abandon | 30 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17741286 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING TYPES OF DAMAGE TO A VEHICLE | May 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17774066 | PHOTOTHERMAL ANALYSIS OF A PART OF SOLID MATERIAL | May 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 36 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17772498 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR THE VIDEO SURVEILLANCE OF AT LEAST ONE STEP OF A GOLF COURSE | April 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 36 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17711325 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING NEARBY USERS AND TRANSITIONING BETWEEN ENERGY CONSUMPTION MODES | April 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17704159 | CONTACTLESS DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM USING DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT PROFILE | March 2022 | April 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17762780 | BLOOD SMEAR FULL-VIEW INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS METHOD, AND BLOOD CELL SEGMENTATION MODEL AND RECOGNITION MODEL CONSTRUCTION METHOD | March 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 36 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17697904 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND RELATED IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMAGE ENHANCEMENT BASED ON REGION CONTROL AND MULTIPLE PROCESSING BRANCH | March 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17634769 | Methods for High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Ultrasound Imaging of Microvessels | February 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 40 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17634389 | PROCESSOR FOR ENDOSCOPE, ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD USING LEARNING MODELS | February 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 41 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17587446 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING PRESENCE OF A FAULT IN IMAGE DATA IN ACCORANCE WITH A SIZE OF CHARACTERS | January 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17586863 | METHOD FOR MODELLING SYNTHETIC DATA IN GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS | January 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17586704 | INTERACTION METHOD AND INTERACTION SYSTEM BETWEEN REALITY AND VIRTUALITY | January 2022 | September 2025 | Abandon | 43 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17586435 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERBAND DENOISING AND SHARPENING OF IMAGES | January 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17586739 | METHOD OF DEPLOYING MULTIPLE MONITORING DEVICES | January 2022 | December 2024 | Abandon | 35 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17648551 | METHOD FOR VIEWING A VIDEO OF A HORSE DURING A RIDE | January 2022 | September 2025 | Abandon | 44 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17644741 | Method for Automatically Ascertaining Cleaning, Maintenance and/or Repair Information for a Motor-Driven Treatment Tool and System for Automatically Ascertaining Cleaning, Maintenance and/or Repair Information for a Motor-Driven Treatment Tool | December 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17489360 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM FOR INSERTING A PARTITION SHEET AFTER A PREDETERMINED NUMBER OF NORMAL IMAGES HAVE BEEN PRINTED AND READ | September 2021 | April 2025 | Abandon | 42 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17464911 | EYEWEAR SYNCHRONIZED WITH UAV IMAGE CAPTURING SYSTEM | September 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 38 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17404013 | ABNORMALITY HANDLING DATA AGGREGATING SYSTEM, ABNORMALITY HANDLING DATA AGGREGATING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2021 | April 2025 | Allow | 44 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17402524 | DIGITAL TISSUE SEGMENTATION | August 2021 | September 2024 | Allow | 37 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17389621 | ACTIVE MOTION CAPTURE MARKER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UNMANNED OR REMOTE VEHICLES OR WEARABLES | July 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 43 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17424953 | NONINVASIVE REAL-TIME PATIENT-SPECIFIC ASSESSMENT OF STROKE SEVERITY | July 2021 | September 2025 | Abandon | 50 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17421736 | ATTENTIVENESS DETERMINATION DEVICE, ATTENTIVENESS DETERMINATION SYSTEM, ATTENTIVENESS DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17418416 | EQUIPMENT FOR AIDING THE TRACEABILITY OF AGRI-FOOD PRODUCTS | June 2021 | May 2025 | Abandon | 47 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17246918 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATION THAT MEDIUM HAS NOT BEEN REMOVED FROM IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE | May 2021 | December 2024 | Abandon | 43 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 16777113 | Method for Printing a Zigbee Install Code and Corresponding Systems and Devices | January 2020 | September 2024 | Allow | 56 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner DULANEY, BENJAMIN O.
With a 0.0% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.
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, 0.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.
⚠ Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.
⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner DULANEY, BENJAMIN O works in Art Unit 2682 and has examined 11 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 63.6%, this examiner allows applications at a lower rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 43 months.
Examiner DULANEY, BENJAMIN O's allowance rate of 63.6% places them in the 24% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is less likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by DULANEY, BENJAMIN O receive 2.36 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 DULANEY, BENJAMIN O is 43 months. This places the examiner in the 17% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +4.2% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by DULANEY, BENJAMIN O. This interview benefit is in the 28% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 21.4% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 25% 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 0.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 2% 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 50.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 18% 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.
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.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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