Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19355695 | HYBRID COUPLER FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | October 2025 | January 2026 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19174775 | METHOD FOR MEASURING CRITICAL CONDENSATE SATURATION PRESSURE AND CRITICAL CONDENSATE SATURATION OF CONDENSATE GAS BY COMBINING ONE-DIMENSIONAL AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE TECHNIQUES | April 2025 | July 2025 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19084714 | HIGH-EFFICIENCY AND HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO SURFACE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE DETECTION METHOD | March 2025 | October 2025 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18793172 | Systems and methods for fast quantitative NMR spectrum acquisition | August 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18779050 | MULTI-PROBE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE ROCK SOIL IN-SITU MONITORING METHOD | July 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18650804 | Sensing Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields | April 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18621854 | MAGNET COOLDOWN THERMAL SWITCH APPARATUS | March 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18616641 | TRANSMIT DEVICE FOR GENERATING A MULTI-FREQUENCY PILOT TONE AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE TOMOGRAPH WITH TRANSMIT DEVICE | March 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18582675 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) SYSTEM AND METHOD INTEGRATING MULTI-NUCLIDE SYNCHRONOUS IMAGING AND SPECTRAL IMAGING | February 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18582141 | LOW-FIELD MAGNETIC RESONANCE FLOW IMAGING | February 2024 | March 2026 | Abandon | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18423792 | 1H TRANSMIT/RECEIVE SWITCH FOR 3T AND 7T MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | January 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18415808 | FABRICATION AND USE OF NANOCOILS ON NITROGEN-VACANCY DIAMOND SUBSTRATES FOR MAGNETIC FIELD DETECTION AND MANIPULATION | January 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 24 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18393959 | MRI APPARATUS | December 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18543775 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VOLUMETRIC ACQUISITION IN A SINGLE-SIDED MRI SCANNER | December 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18542259 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVISIONING TRAINING DATA TO ENABLE NEURAL NETWORKS TO ANALYZE SIGNALS IN NMR MEASUREMENTS | December 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18570850 | NMR METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING A CHARACTERISTIC OF VENEER | December 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18519142 | Magnetic Resonance Facility Operation | November 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18508140 | IN-LINE NMR SENSOR FOR ANALYZING DRILL CUTTINGS AFTER TREATMENT | November 2023 | November 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18500093 | MAGNETIC PARTICLE IMAGING (MPI) AND FLUORESCENCE MOLECULAR TOMOGRAPHY (FMT)-FUSED MULTIMODAL IMAGING SYSTEM FOR SMALL ANIMAL | November 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18557980 | METHOD OF ESTIMATING MOTION OF AN OBJECT AND/OR MAGNETIC FIELD OFFSETS DURING AN MRI SCAN | October 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 27 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18558062 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) BASED SPATIAL ENCODING IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING USING FREQUENCY-MODULATED RF PULSES | October 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18495715 | CEST DATA FITTING METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON EXTRAPOLATED SEMISOLID MAGNETIZATION TRANSFER REFERENCE SIGNAL, AND MEDIUM | October 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18488547 | METHOD FOR EVALUATING ADVANCED CONFORMANCE CONTROL, SWEEP EFFICIENCY, DEEP DIVERSION, AND WATER SHUTOFF TREATMENTS | October 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18551239 | Experimental Apparatus and Method for Regulating and Controlling Zeeman Transition of Magnetic Resonance | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18368653 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | September 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18244282 | SUBJECT-SPECIFIC OPTIMIZATION OF AN RF PULSE FOR EXCITING THE SPINS IN A SLAB | September 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18275934 | MINIMALLY COUPLED SHIM COILS | August 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18036968 | Mapping and Correction of Inhomogeneity in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Magnetic Field | May 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18035949 | MR IMAGING WITH SPIRAL ACQUISITION | May 2023 | January 2026 | Allow | 33 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18308047 | COIL INTERFACE APPARATUS, COIL APPARATUS AND MRI DEVICE | April 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18138210 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | April 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18300604 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIMULTANEOUS MAPPING OF QUANTITATIVE MRI PARAMETERS USING A T2 PREPARED INVERSION | April 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18134197 | Multiple Coil Sensitivity Maps Of Coils Of A Receiver Array Of A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Apparatus and Sense Reconstruction | April 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18115610 | B1+ MAPPING NEAR METALLIC HARDWARE | February 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18113805 | Magnetic resonance imaging using 3D spoiled gradient-recalled sequence | February 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18163913 | REAL-TIME ULTRA-QUALITY MULTI-PARAMETRIC FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SYSTEM AND THE METHOD THEREOF | February 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18156144 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CORRECTING EFFECTS OF SECOND-ORDER CONCOMITANT FIELDS IN A MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEM WITH A SECOND-ORDER CORRECTION COIL ASSEMBLY | January 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18153412 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING METHOD | January 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18068133 | NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEM-BASED SUBSTANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM | December 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18080989 | Chemical Shift Correction for Multi-Point Magnetic Resonance Measurements | December 2022 | July 2025 | Abandon | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17927505 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RAPIDLY ACQUIRING AND RECONSTRUCTING A SEQUENCE OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES COVERING A VOLUME | November 2022 | October 2025 | Abandon | 35 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17992868 | SHIMMING METHOD AND DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 31 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17989096 | Systems And Methods For Simultaneously Measuring Diffusion Weighted Spin-Echo And Stimulated Echo Signals | November 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 33 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17984650 | Angle Adjuster for NMR | November 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18052808 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONSTRUCTING AN ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY MAP FROM MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | November 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18049720 | SINGLE-VOXEL SPECTROSCOPY FOR QUANTITATION OF MYOCARDIAL METABOLITES | October 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17969884 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | October 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18047969 | SWITCHED GRADIENT FIELD MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES FOR SURFACE NMR | October 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 29 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17967191 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING A DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE DATA SET, MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND ELECTRONICALLY READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | October 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17918582 | MR IMAGING WITH T1 COMPENSATED B1 MAPPING | October 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 31 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17938229 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VOLUMETRIC ACQUISITION IN A SINGLE-SIDED MRI SCANNER | October 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17959674 | ROTATING MRI COILS FOR SAFE IMAGING OF PATIENTS WITH ELECTRONIC IMPLANTS | October 2022 | October 2025 | Abandon | 37 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17956964 | MR Imaging Method and Apparatus and Computer-Readable Storage Medium | September 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17957034 | Actuating an MR Device with Saturation | September 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 30 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17952341 | 3D OSCILLATING GRADIENT-PREPARED GRADIENT SPIN-ECHO IMAGING METHOD, AND DEVICE | September 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17947519 | REDUCING INTERFERENCE FROM MAGNETIC RESONANCE TOMOGRAPHY UNITS | September 2022 | August 2024 | Abandon | 23 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17946302 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPRESSING AT LEAST ONE OF AN ELECTRIC OR A MAGNETIC FIELD EMITTED DURING MAGNETIC RESONANCE RECORDINGS | September 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17941672 | SPECTRAL SATURATION IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE TOMOGRAPHY | September 2022 | March 2026 | Abandon | 42 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17909595 | NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE MEASUREMENT METHOD AND NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE APPARATUS | September 2022 | May 2025 | Abandon | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17897893 | PILOT TONE SIGNAL GENERATOR, MAGNETIC RESONANCE TOMOGRAPH, METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION OF A SYNCHRONIZATION SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | August 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17868960 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING METHOD | July 2022 | October 2025 | Abandon | 38 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17853902 | METHOD OF RECONSTRUCTING A DYNAMIC SERIES OF MOTION-COMPENSATED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES | June 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17782700 | HIGH FREQUENCY COIL APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SIGNALS OF OTHER NUCLIDES WITHIN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME | June 2022 | May 2025 | Abandon | 36 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17828193 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS | May 2022 | October 2025 | Abandon | 41 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17804220 | MRI APPARATUS | May 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17773683 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE VOLUME COIL WITH MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT TRANSMIT RECEIVE CHANNELS | May 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17773174 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN IMAGING EXAMINATION DEVICE WHILE TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION A DISTORTED GRADIENT FIELD | April 2022 | January 2026 | Allow | 45 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17716672 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-SLICE ACQUISITION IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | April 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17658054 | ADAPTIVE SHIM COILS FOR MR IMAGING | April 2022 | January 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17697890 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING A MAGNETIC RESONANCE MEASUREMENT OF A PATIENT, MAGNETIC RESONANCE APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | March 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 29 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17694907 | SLOTTED WAVEGUIDE ARRAY RF COIL FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEMS | March 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17693598 | LOGGING TOOL MOTION ERROR REDUCTION FOR NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE LOGGING VIA PULSE SUB-SEQUENCES | March 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 19 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17684454 | CHARACTERIZING A MOTION OF AN OBJECT | March 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 26 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17679422 | IDENTIFYING RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE IN A MAGNETIC RESONANCE SYSTEM | February 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17587697 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROBUST SHIMMING FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | January 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17584501 | RECEIVING COIL DEVICE AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | January 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17645763 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD, AND STATIC MAGNETIC FIELD INHOMOGENEITY CORRECTION METHOD | December 2021 | August 2025 | Allow | 43 | 5 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17558946 | METHOD FOR EXECUTING AT LEAST ONE APPLICATION ON A MAGNETIC RESONANCE DEVICE | December 2021 | November 2024 | Abandon | 35 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17553433 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING SYSTEM | December 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17545694 | UNIFIED COIL (UNIC) SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR NEXT GENERATION MAGNETIC RESONANCE COILS | December 2021 | November 2024 | Abandon | 36 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17540104 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | December 2021 | December 2024 | Allow | 36 | 5 | 0 | No | No |
| 17457052 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME | December 2021 | November 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17614595 | SPIRAL MR IMAGING WITH OFF-RESONANCE ARTEFACT CORRECTION | November 2021 | September 2023 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17520003 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD | November 2021 | June 2024 | Abandon | 32 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17606175 | RADIOFREQUENCY COIL | October 2021 | April 2025 | Abandon | 41 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17602926 | System and Method for Free-Breathing Quantitative Multiparametric MRI | October 2021 | July 2024 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17482815 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON BALANCED STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION SEQUENCE | September 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17438898 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VOLUMETRIC ACQUISITION IN A SINGLE-SIDED MRI SCANNER | September 2021 | July 2022 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17374693 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED RECONSTRUCTION OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE FINGERPRINTING DATA WITH LOW-RANK METHODS | July 2021 | November 2023 | Abandon | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17305677 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING METHOD | July 2021 | October 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17297417 | REAL-TIME FMRI | May 2021 | January 2023 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17329968 | Shifting Phase in a Resonator Device for Magnetic Resonance | May 2021 | February 2026 | Allow | 57 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17237507 | WETTABILITY ESTIMATION USING MAGNETIC RESONANCE | April 2021 | July 2023 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17223333 | Device and Method for Patient-Specific Interference Suppression | April 2021 | July 2022 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17202180 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNING METHOD AND SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2021 | March 2025 | Allow | 48 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17199682 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE TOMOGRAPHY UNIT AND SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING DISTURBANCES | March 2021 | November 2023 | Abandon | 32 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17198306 | INTERLEAVED EXECUTION OF MRI MEASUREMENT SEQUENCES | March 2021 | April 2024 | Allow | 38 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17189199 | RADIO FREQUENCY RECEIVING DEVICE | March 2021 | May 2025 | Allow | 50 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17183361 | TEMPERATURE CORRECTION OF NMR RELAXATION TIME DISTRIBUTIONS | February 2021 | May 2023 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17181241 | SUBTLE INTENSITY GRADUATING HOMOMORPHIC TRANSFORM TO IMPROVE CONSPICUITY OF LOW-INTENSITY PATHOLOGIES | February 2021 | August 2022 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner PATEL, RISHI 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 PATEL, RISHI R works in Art Unit 2896 and has examined 202 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 79.7%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 32 months.
Examiner PATEL, RISHI R's allowance rate of 79.7% places them in the 49% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by PATEL, RISHI R receive 2.27 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 63% 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 PATEL, RISHI R is 32 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 -2.5% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by PATEL, RISHI R. This interview benefit is in the 8% percentile among all examiners. Note: Interviews show limited statistical benefit with this examiner compared to others, though they may still be valuable for clarifying issues.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 25.9% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 42% 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 36.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 54% 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, 66.7% 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 40.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 7% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 50.0% 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, 51.3% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 50% 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 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 28% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments less often than average. You may need to make most claim amendments yourself.
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 2.5% of allowed cases (in the 71% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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