Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19011342 | RECTIFICATION CONTROL SYSTEM, CHARGER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR CHARGER | January 2025 | April 2025 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18673927 | METHOD FOR HYBRID CONTROL OF GRID-CONNECTED INVERTER BASED ON TIME SHARING OF A VOLTAGE SOURCE AND A CURRENT SOURCE | May 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18576378 | Current booster | January 2024 | March 2025 | Abandon | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18280714 | T-TYPE BUCK-BOOST RECTIFIER | September 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18450552 | PULSE FREQUENCY MODULATION REGULATION AND EXIT SCHEME USING SINGLE COMPARATOR FOR POWER CONVERTER | August 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18225164 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPRESSING GRID VOLTAGE IMBALANCE | July 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18325191 | SOFT START RECTIFIER FOR A POWER SUPPLY UNIT | May 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18114500 | AUTONOMOUS DETECTION OF RAPID SHUTDOWN CONDITION | February 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 11 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18111881 | POWER SUPPLY CAPABLE OF STABILIZING AND COMPENSATING RESONANT VOLTAGES | February 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18020864 | FAULT-TOLERANT OPERATION OF A CURRENT CONVERTER | February 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18158914 | Digital Average Input Current Control in Power Converter | January 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18154167 | CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR REGULATING OUTPUT VOLTAGE OF A BUCK CONVERTER DURING NEGATIVE LOAD TRANSIENTS | January 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18151644 | ACTIVE SNUBBER CIRCUIT | January 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18011739 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING DEVICE | December 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18071853 | POWER SYSTEM WITH ADAPTIVE MINIMUM FREQUENCY | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17928124 | SUBMODULE AS A HYBRID CELL FOR A MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER | November 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17928117 | FLYBACK CONVERTER WITH INDIRECT ESTIMATION OF PRIMARY- SIDE VOLTAGE AT THE SECONDARY-SIDE | November 2022 | May 2025 | Abandon | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18058829 | FAST RECOVERY RESPONSE TO LOAD DUMPS IN A POWER CONVERTER SYSTEM | November 2022 | April 2025 | Abandon | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17989692 | FULL-BRIDGE RESONANT CONVERTER CAPABLE OF SUPPRESSING HIGH-FREQUENCY DECOUPLING DISTORTION | November 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17990098 | DELTA-BASED CURRENT STEERING FOR POWER CONVERTER PEAK/VALLEY CURRENT CONTROL | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 18055842 | BOOTSTRAP CIRCUITRY FOR DRIVING A HIGH-SIDE SWITCH OF A SWITCHING CONVERTER | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17976579 | ALTERNATING CURRENT POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND ALTERNATING CURRENT POWER SUPPLY WITH AN EFFICIENT SOFT SWITCHING CIRCUIT | October 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17972387 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT HAVING AMPLITUDE-BASED SWITCHING CONTROL AND POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT CONTAINING THE SAME | October 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17919413 | PROTECTION CIRCUIT OF RESONANT CONVERTER AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | October 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17918806 | Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) Rectifier for Charging Ultra-Capacitors | October 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17907627 | AN UNDERVOLTAGE PROTECTION CIRCUIT FOR A DC/DC CONVERTER AND METHOD THEREOF | September 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17946336 | SWITCHING MODE POWER SUPPLY WITH STABLE ZERO CROSSING DETECTION, THE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND THE METHOD THEREOF | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17895046 | POWER CONVERTER WITH LOADING DETECTOR FOR ENHANCING CONVERSION EFFICIENCY | August 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17891363 | BUCK CONVERTER INCLUDING A BOOTSTRAP CAPACITOR AND AN OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | August 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17889617 | Detection of AC Input Disconnection in an AC-DC Converter Section of a Power Converter | August 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17887980 | DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY BASED DC/AC INVERTERS | August 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17881235 | Methods and Systems for Current Sensing | August 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17866925 | VOLTAGE DOUBLING AC POWER SUPPLY WITH TRICKLE CHARGE FOR A BATTERY | July 2022 | February 2025 | Abandon | 31 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 17858281 | EFFICIENT BOOTSTRAPPING FOR DC-DC CONVERTERS | July 2022 | June 2025 | Abandon | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17790862 | POWER FACTOR CORRECTION CONTROL METHOD, APPARATUS, AND DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 12 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17856453 | CONVERTER CONTROL METHOD, CONVERTER CONTROL APPARATUS, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | July 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17827447 | INTEGRATED POWER CONVERTER WITH ISOLATED-CHANNEL FEEDBACK INTERFACE | May 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17743122 | INTELLIGENT RECTIFIER CURRENT REGULATION OF DC BUS VOLTAGE DROOP | May 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17717776 | SOFT START FOR BUCK CONVERTERS | April 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17716210 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE WITH VOLTAGE ABNORMALITY CONTROL | April 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17716933 | FLYBACK POWER CONVERTER AND SWITCHED CAPACITOR CONVERTER CIRCUIT CAPABLE OF STEP-UP AND STEP-DOWN CONVERSION THEREOF | April 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17714841 | SINGLE-PHASE AND THREE-PHASE COMPATIBLE AC-DC CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF DETECTING INPUT CURRENT THEREOF | April 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17711343 | SWITCHING REGULATOR ACHIEVEING SOFT SWITCHING BY DOUBLE SWITCHING AND CONTROL CIRCUIT THEREOF | April 2022 | November 2024 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17709806 | POWER CONVERTER WITH CONTROLLER ALTERNATELY TURNING ON SWITCHES | March 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17765155 | SNUBBER CIRCUIT | March 2022 | August 2024 | Abandon | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17706200 | MODEL DRIVEN ESTIMATION OF FAULTED AREA IN ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS | March 2022 | July 2024 | Abandon | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17702511 | RESTART OF AN AC-TO-DC CONVERTER UPON A TEMPORARY DROP-OUT OF AN AC VOLTAGE | March 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17697087 | HIGH EFFICIENCY POWER OBFUSCATION SWITCHED CAPACITOR DC-DC CONVERTER ARCHITECTURE | March 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17696781 | FLOATING GATE DRIVER WITH PROGRAMMABLE DRIVE STRENGTH FOR A WIDE RANGE OF UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS (USB) POWER DELIVERY APPLICATIONS | March 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 38 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17695603 | METHOD OF OPERATING AN ELECTRONIC CONVERTER, CORRESPONDING CONTROL CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC CONVERTER | March 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17694338 | MULTI SLOPE OUTPUT IMPEDANCE CONTROLLER TO REDUCE CURRENT IMBALANCE IN A MASTERLESS CONFIGURATION OF N PARALLEL-CONNECTED POWER CONVERTERS AND IMPROVE LOAD REGULATION IN A SINGLE POWER CONVERTER | March 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17693014 | DIODE DISCRETE DEVICE, CIRCUIT WITH BYPASS FUNCTION, AND CONVERTER | March 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17686853 | ADAPTIVE INDUCTOR DCR CURRENT SENSING CIRCUIT IN A SWITCHING CONVERTER AND ASSOCIATED METHOD | March 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17685702 | Three-Level Power Converter and Control Method | March 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17638902 | DC-DC CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A DC-DC CONVERTER | February 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17639058 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR A DC-DC VOLTAGE CONVERTER WITH A VOLTAGE CONTROLLER, DC CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DC CONVERTER | February 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 36 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17680288 | Adaptive Dead-Time Control of a Synchronous Buck Converter | February 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17679572 | Power Converter with Integrated Multi-Phase Reconfigurable Current Balancing | February 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17651180 | SWITCHED-MODE POWER CONTROLLER WITH MULTI-MODE STARTUP | February 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17668238 | CONVERTER AND POWER ADAPTER FOR REDUCING ENERGY LOSS | February 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 17 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17587702 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO REDUCE REVERSE RECOVERY DURING THE OPERATION OF AN INVERTING BUCK BOOST CONVERTER | January 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17585709 | CONTROLLER OF SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY HAVING A FREQUENCY-JITTERING CONTROL CIRCUIT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | January 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 35 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17648962 | High Performance Synchronous Rectification in Discontinuous Current Mode Converters | January 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17629259 | CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR POWER CONVERTER APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH PFC CIRCUIT OPERATING IN CURRENT-CRITICAL MODE | January 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17626286 | A RESONANT CIRCUIT CONVERTER AND CONTROL METHOD | January 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17647133 | CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR STARTING A SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY | January 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 32 | 4 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17624897 | HIGH-GAIN QUASI-RESONANT DC-DC CONVERTER BASED ON VOLTAGE DOUBLING RECTIFIER CIRCUIT | January 2022 | August 2022 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17646875 | SWITCHED CAPACITORS FOR AC-DC APPLICATIONS | January 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 33 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17567301 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CONTROL INPUT TO A POWER CONVERTER | January 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17597187 | DC-DC CONVERSION DEVICE HAVING COUPLING INDUCTOR | December 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17563011 | MULTI-LEVEL INVERTING BUCK-BOOST CONVERTER ARCHITECTURE | December 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17596957 | CONTROL CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR BUS VOLTAGE VARIATION IN POWER CONVERTERS | December 2021 | February 2025 | Allow | 38 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17559574 | SWITCHING CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR OVERCURRENT PROTECTION, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE CONTAINING THE SAME | December 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17556223 | FLYBACK CONVERTER HAVING SECONDARY WINDING MODULES WITH OUTPUT CAPACITORS AND DIODES, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | December 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17643371 | BUCK CONVERTER HAVING SUPER-JUNCTION MOSFET | December 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17616801 | ELECTRICAL CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRICAL CONVERTER | December 2021 | May 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17540006 | POWER CONVERSION CIRCUIT WITH TRANSFORMER | December 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17613193 | WIND TURBINE TRANSFORMER CONTROL | November 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 40 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17531791 | EFFICIENCY TRACKING METHOD OF A CONTROLLER APPLIED TO A FLYBACK POWER CONVERTER | November 2021 | September 2024 | Abandon | 34 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17528075 | Methods and Systems for Current Sensing in Power Converters | November 2021 | January 2024 | Abandon | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17521187 | REGULATING CIRCUIT INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF LOW DROP OUT REGULATORS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | November 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17453473 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR HAVING PROGRAMMABLE ADAPTIVE DEAD TIME | November 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17510759 | COMMONLY CONTROLLED BUCK-BOOST CONVERTER | October 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17508589 | POWER CONVERTER FOR SUPPRESSING HEAT TRANSFER TO ELECTRICAL COMPONENT | October 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17496805 | POWER SUPPLY AND EMULATED CURRENT MODE TO CONTROL GENERATION OF AN OUTPUT VOLTAGE | October 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17599893 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE USING INTELLIGENT PRE-REGULATOR | September 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17487762 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND METHOD THAT DETERMINE LOCATION OF FAULT IN FIRST AND SECOND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS | September 2021 | August 2024 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17481076 | CONVERTER AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM WITH SIMPLIFIED SAMPLING | September 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17441184 | POWER CONVERTER APPARATUS CONVERTING INPUT POWER HAVING A PREDETERMINED VOLTAGE INTO OUTPUT POWER HAVING A PREDETERMINED OUTPUT VOLTAGE OVER WIDE RANGE WITH HIGHER EFFICIENCY | September 2021 | June 2024 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17439574 | CONTROL DEVICE AND POWER CONVERSION DEVICE | September 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17475498 | POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INCLUDING DC-DC CONVERTER AND REGULATOR | September 2021 | November 2024 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17438936 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE WITH EXPANDED SOFT SWITCHING REGION AND SIMPLIFIED CONTROL | September 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17435789 | SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFICATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUASI-RESONANT FLYBACK CONVERTER | September 2021 | February 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17435441 | CONTROLLING BUCK-BOOST CONVERTERS BASED ON POWER SUPPLY IDENTIFICATION SIGNALS | September 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17432189 | Converter Cell with Crowbar | August 2021 | May 2022 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17432396 | DIRECT VOLTAGE CONVERTER WITH SYNCHRONIZED DIVIDING MODULES | August 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | Yes |
| 17405284 | POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS WITH LIMITED POWER SOURCE CAPABILITY AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | August 2021 | January 2025 | Abandon | 41 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 17405507 | DIRECT-CURRENT VOLTAGE CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND SWITCHING POWER-SUPPLY DEVICE | August 2021 | August 2023 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17400418 | TRIGGERED VACUUM GAP THAT CONTROLLABLY SUSTAINS A VACUUM ARC THROUGH CURRENT ZEROS | August 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 40 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17429248 | DIRECT CURRENT CONVERTER DEVICE | August 2021 | October 2023 | Abandon | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A.
With a 85.7% reversal rate, the PTAB has reversed the examiner's rejections more often than affirming them. This reversal rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals are more successful here than in most other areas.
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, 45.5% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is above the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal can be an effective strategy for prompting 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 is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A works in Art Unit 2838 and has examined 729 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 83.0%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 28 months.
Examiner ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A's allowance rate of 83.0% places them in the 50% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A receive 2.10 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 70% 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 ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A is 28 months. This places the examiner in the 52% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +24.2% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by ROSARIO BENITEZ, GUSTAVO A. This interview benefit is in the 74% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 31.8% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 58% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. Consider whether your amendments or new arguments are strong enough to warrant an RCE versus filing a continuation.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 36.2% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 47% 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, 69.6% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 56% 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 82.5% of appeals filed. This is in the 73% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 39.4% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner shows above-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. The mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) provides an opportunity for reconsideration.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 30.1% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 22% 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 0.5% of allowed cases (in the 61% 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 4.6% of allowed cases (in the 78% percentile). Per MPEP § 714.14, a Quayle action indicates that all claims are allowable but formal matters remain. This examiner frequently uses Quayle actions compared to other examiners, which is a positive indicator that once substantive issues are resolved, allowance follows quickly.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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