Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18969965 | Ultraviolet Lamp Apparatuses Which Move Their Lamp/s While Emitting Light | December 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18808351 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PULSED MODE CHARGE DETECTION MASS SPECTROMETRY | August 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18802057 | DETECTOR AND STERILIZATION SYSTEM | August 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18762559 | EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LITHOGRAPHY SYSTEM | July 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18428502 | GERMICIDAL LIGHTING | January 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18392494 | APPARATUS OF PLURAL CHARGED-PARTICLE BEAMS | December 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18540423 | OPERATING A MASS SPECTROMETER UTILIZING MASS SPECTRAL DATABASE SEARCH | December 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18528491 | SWITCHABLE ION GUIDE | December 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18504089 | MULTIPLE CHARGED-PARTICLE BEAM APPARATUS AND METHODS | November 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18499141 | SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTOR AND METHOD OF FABRICATING SAME | October 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 18383750 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ANALYSIS OF A PROTEIN USING LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY | October 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18287461 | ELECTRON-BEAM IRRADIATION APPARATUS AND MAINTENANCE METHOD FOR ELECTRON-BEAM IRRADIATION APPARATUS | October 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18380439 | GUIDING DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEM | October 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 20 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18487654 | VITAMIN B2 DETECTION BY MASS SPECTROMETRY | October 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18467642 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THERMALLY CONDITIONING A WAFER IN A CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM APPARATUS | September 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18466163 | CLEANING AND DISINFECTING DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC ITEMS | September 2023 | November 2024 | Abandon | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18367066 | HIGH FRAMERATE AND HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE ELECTRON MICROSCOPY | September 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18279972 | Power Supply Device for Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer | September 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18450837 | REPLACEABLE EMITTER ASSEMBLY FOR INTERFACING A SEPARATION COLUMN TO A MASS SPECTROMETER | August 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18275557 | COLLISION REACTION CELL ION ACCELERATION APPARATUS WITH EXTREMELY LOW CROSSTALK | August 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18359547 | ION MIRROR FOR MULTI-REFLECTING MASS SPECTROMETERS | July 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18345956 | APPARATUS OF PLURAL CHARGED-PARTICLE BEAMS | June 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18339510 | ION GUIDE WITH REDUCED NODING EFFECT | June 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18213229 | CHARGED PARTICLE BLOCKING ELEMENT, EXPOSURE APPARATUS COMPRISING SUCH AN ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR USING SUCH AN EXPOSURE APPARATUS | June 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18324421 | MULTI-PASS MASS SPECTROMETER | May 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18201325 | GERMICIDAL LIGHTING | May 2023 | March 2024 | Abandon | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18314506 | CHARGE DETECTION FOR ION ACCUMULATION CONTROL | May 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18139143 | Voltage Control for Ion Mobility Separation | April 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18301663 | FLUID STERILIZER AND ASSOCIATED CONNECTING DEVICE | April 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18300203 | Method and Circuitry to Apply an Individual DC Offset to Electrodes on a Large-Scale Ion Trap Quantum Computer | April 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18298514 | METHODS FOR RESOLVING LIPOPROTEINS WITH MASS SPECTROMETRY | April 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18297303 | FLOW CONTROL DEVICE | April 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18130466 | Charged Particle Source and Charged Particle Beam Device | April 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18190483 | DALY DETECTOR OPERABLE IN NEGATIVE ION AND POSITIVE ION DETECTION MODES | March 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18184236 | MEMBRANE-BASED PURGE GAS AND SAMPLE TRANSFER FOR LASER ABLATION SAMPLE PROCESSING | March 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18019516 | Identification of Harmonics in RF Quadrupole Fourier Transform Mass Spectra | February 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18007499 | Effective Use of Multiple Charge States | January 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18158444 | APPARATUS OF PLURAL CHARGED-PARTICLE BEAMS | January 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18099127 | Focused Ion Beam System and Method of Correcting Deviation of Field of View of Ion Beam | January 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18149743 | INSTRUMENT, INCLUDING AN ELECTROSTATIC LINEAR ION TRAP WITH CHARGE DETECTOR RESET OR CALIBRATION, FOR SEPARATING IONS | January 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18087277 | ION IMPLANTER AND ION IMPLANTATION METHOD | December 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18059585 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF HYSTERESIS COMPENSATION | November 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18071190 | ION STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON QUADRUPOLE-ION TRAP TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY | November 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17993950 | GERMICIDAL LIGHTING | November 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18057835 | Method for Determining a Parameter to Perform a Mass Analysis of Sample Ions with an Ion Trapping Mass Analyser | November 2022 | September 2023 | Abandon | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17997596 | CAPILLARY EMITTER WITH ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION PROVIDING FEMTOLITER TO NANOLITER FLOW RATES | October 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17973130 | ION IMPLANTER AND MODEL GENERATION METHOD | October 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17920620 | CONTAMINATION SHIELD FOR MECHANICALLY INSULATING DEVICE | October 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18048414 | MULTI-CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM WRITING APPARATUS, AND MULTI-CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM WRITING METHOD | October 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17920198 | UVC IRRADIATION DISINFECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | October 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17918375 | ION ANALYZER | October 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17963934 | SOFTWARE FOR MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEMS INTERFACING WITH MASS SPECTROMETRY | October 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17952713 | SPACER AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING OPTICAL FIBER CURING PROCESS | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17950333 | UV GERMICIDAL SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE THEREOF | September 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17932884 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER WITH MULTIPLE REFLECTION | September 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17945705 | VAPORIZER, ION SOURCE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ALUMINUM-CONTAINING VAPOR | September 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17822843 | STEERED INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA | August 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 28 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17884224 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | August 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17882803 | ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY-MASS SPECTROMETRY COMBINED ANALYSIS DEVICE | August 2022 | April 2025 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17797225 | Semiconductor Analysis System | August 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17871090 | REPELLER ASSEMBLY FOR MOUNTING INTO AN ARC CHAMBER OF AN ION IMPLANTER AND ARC CHAMBER CONTAINING THE REPELLER ASSEMBLY | July 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17871197 | UVC Sanitizing Bag | July 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17870339 | APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY MANAGING THE HELMET | July 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17791295 | ION MILLING DEVICE | July 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17856093 | METHOD AND CIRCUITRY TO APPLY AN INDIVIDUAL DC OFFSET TO ELECTRODES ON A LARGE-SCALE ION TRAP QUANTUM COMPUTER | July 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17810305 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR HIGH SPEED MASS SPECTROMETRY | June 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17855357 | RADIATION COLLECTOR | June 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 35 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17809760 | CALIBRATION OF MASS SPECTROMETRY SYSTEMS | June 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17788887 | PATTERN INSPECTING DEVICE | June 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17845156 | USER EXCHANGEABLE ABLATION CELL INTERFACE TO ALTER LA-ICP-MS PEAK WIDTHS | June 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17785896 | BEAM CURRENT ADJUSTMENT FOR CHARGED-PARTICLE INSPECTION SYSTEM | June 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17839298 | METHODS FOR DETECTING LACOSAMIDE BY MASS SPECTROMETRY | June 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17837698 | SANITATION DEVICE | June 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17835345 | CHARGED PARTICLE EMISSION DEVICE, SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM | June 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17783430 | Mechanism for Adjusting Angle of Incidence on Charged Particle Beam Aperture, and Charged Particle Beam Device | June 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17830984 | Improved Electrode Arrangement | June 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17781470 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PATIENT POSITIONING DURING RADIOTHERAPY | June 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17829230 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF IMAGE-FORMING MULTI-ELECTRON BEAMS | May 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 26 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17748408 | CURRENT DETECTION DEVICE AND SPECTROMETER USING THE SAME | May 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17748972 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRE-ALIGNING SAMPLES FOR MORE EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF MULTIPLE SAMPLES WITH A BROAD ION BEAM (BIB) SYSTEM | May 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17744367 | KITCHEN STERILIZATION LAMP | May 2022 | January 2025 | Abandon | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17740991 | ORTHOGONAL ACCELERATION TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER | May 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17737079 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS IMPLEMENTING A WIDE RIBBON BEAM ION SOURCE TO IMPLANT IONS IN MATERIAL TO MODIFY MATERIAL PROPERTIES | May 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17730830 | PRECURSOR AND NEUTRAL LOSS SCAN IN AN ION TRAP | April 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17726018 | INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA TORCH STRUCTURE WITH FLARED OUTLET | April 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17723501 | METHOD AND APPARATUS | April 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17717505 | TIME OF FLIGHT MASS ANALYSER WITH SPATIAL FOCUSSING | April 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17715202 | VITAMIN B2 DETECTION BY MASS SPECTROMETRY | April 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17711557 | AUTONOMOUS MOBILE DISINFECTION PLATFORM METHOD AND APPARATUS | April 2022 | February 2025 | Abandon | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17711400 | DOSE PLANNING SYSTEM | April 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17708377 | GAS ANALYZER APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING GAS ANALYZER APPARATUS | March 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17708736 | Pulsatile Flow Atmospheric Real Time Ionization | March 2022 | December 2022 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17706539 | INTERACTIVE ANALYSIS OF MASS SPECTROMETRY DATA | March 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17754069 | Sample Holder, Method for Using Sample Holder, Projection Amount Adjustment Jig, Projection Amount Adjustment Method and Charged Particle Beam Device | March 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 25 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17655983 | DOPED AMORPHOUS SILICON CARBIDE | March 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17699458 | FAR UV-C LIGHT DEVICE | March 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 34 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17762074 | ULTRA-VIOLET STERILIZATION SYSTEM FOR A DEVICE SURFACE | March 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17760501 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PULSED MODE CHARGE DETECTION MASS SPECTROMETRY | March 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17693999 | ION TRAP | March 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17692370 | LIQUID SAMPLE INTRODUCTION METHOD AND LIQUID SAMPLE INTRODUCTION DEVICE | March 2022 | December 2023 | Abandon | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SMITH, DAVID E.
With a 22.2% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges 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, 37.5% 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 face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner SMITH, DAVID E works in Art Unit 2881 and has examined 1,230 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 88.0%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 20 months.
Examiner SMITH, DAVID E's allowance rate of 88.0% places them in the 64% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by SMITH, DAVID E receive 1.29 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 24% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by SMITH, DAVID E is 20 months. This places the examiner in the 89% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +5.2% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SMITH, DAVID E. This interview benefit is in the 30% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 33.7% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 68% 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 50.5% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 71% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows above-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. If your amendments clearly overcome the rejections and do not raise new issues, consider filing after-final amendments before resorting to an RCE.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 33.3% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 32% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show below-average success with this examiner. Consider whether your arguments are strong enough to warrant a PAC request.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 47.1% of appeals filed. This is in the 9% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 25.0% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). 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, 47.2% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 54% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show above-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Petitionable matters include restriction requirements (MPEP § 1002.02(c)(2)) and various procedural issues.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.2% of allowed cases (in the 52% 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 0.4% of allowed cases (in the 47% 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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