PATLY.AIExaminer difficulty
How examiners in this art unit compare
The spread of examiners on each measure. Click a bar to see who is in it.
3-year grant rate
83%
+3 pts vs tech center 2600 allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
85%
+2 pts vs tech center 2600 range 84% to 85%
Rejections before allowance
1.4
level with tech center 2600
Months to first action
17.0 mo
+0.2 vs tech center 2600
In plain words
With Art unit 2656, 83% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action, against 81% for tech center 2600. The first action takes 17.0 months on average.
Timeline
Applications by filing year: drag across the years to study a period
Allowed in green, abandoned in red, pending in grey. The figures above and every chart that can be recomputed by filing year follow the span you pick; the rest are marked all years.
Ask the record
Questions practitioners ask, answered from 13,966 applications
Grant rate from the first action
Share allowed, by months after the first office action
The gold line is this record and the blue line is tech center 2600. The marker is the three-year grant rate.
Outcome simulator
Where you are, what you do next, and the odds that follow
A model of this record’s own transitions: each examiner action, the response to it, and what came next. Thin data borrows from tech center 2600.
Prosecution paths
How prosecution actually unfolds
Every application’s sequence of examiner actions, from the first action to the outcome. Hover a band for the count.
Compared with peers
Against the art unit, the tech center and the USPTO
The same figures for this record, tech center 2600, the tech center and the whole office.
Allowance over time
How fast applications are allowed, or abandoned
Share allowed (gold) and abandoned (red) by month since filing, with pending cases counted only while they are pending.
Rejection fingerprint
What gets rejected, by statute
Share of office actions raising each ground; blue is tech center 2600.
What works
Allowance by strategy used
Allowance rate among decided cases where each move was used at least once, against tech center 2600.
Interviews
Does an interview help?
Allowance with and without an examiner interview, and how often interviews happen.
Odds by round
Chance the next action is an allowance
After the first, second and later rejections.
Response clock
Days from a response to the next action
How long the examiner takes to act once you have answered.
Quarter-end timing
When allowances land in the fiscal quarter
Allowances by week of the USPTO fiscal quarter. An even spread would put 15% in the last two weeks.
Appeals
What happens on appeal
Appeals filed, briefs, examiner’s answers, and how the Board decided.
Trend
Allowance rate by filing year
Is it getting easier or harder? Gold is this record, blue is tech center 2600.
Who files here
Assignees and firms with the most applications
How often each one was allowed with this unit.
Landscape
Examiners across tech center 2600
Each dot is an examiner: allowance rate across, rejections before allowance down, size by caseload. Click one to open it.
Examiners
Every examiner in the unit, ranked by difficulty
| Examiner | Applications | Allowance rate | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nandini Subramani | 134 | 68% | P98 Harder than peers |
| Michael Ortiz Sanchez | 490 | 72% | P97 Harder than peers |
| Thomas H Maung | 419 | 66% | P96 Harder than peers |
| Paul C McCord | 723 | 70% | P94 Harder than peers |
| Andrew C Flanders | 739 | 77% | P78 Harder than peers |
| Joseph Jeremy Yamamoto | 76 | 72% | P76 Harder than peers |
| Edward Tracy Jr. | 185 | 80% | P74 Typical for peers |
| Anne L Thomas-Homescu | 491 | 80% | P73 Typical for peers |
| Amal S Zenati | 805 | 84% | P71 Typical for peers |
| Joshua A Kaufman | 348 | 78% | P69 Typical for peers |
| Maria El-Zoobi | 1,121 | 83% | P65 Typical for peers |
| Stella L Woo | 945 | 81% | P63 Typical for peers |
| Philip Hung Fai Lam | 214 | 84% | P63 Typical for peers |
| Alexander J Krzystan | 1,040 | 85% | P61 Typical for peers |
| David J Ho | 18 | 78% | P58 |
| Phung Hoang Joseph Nguyen | 1,065 | 85% | P57 Typical for peers |
| Jesse A Elbin | 474 | 82% | P51 Typical for peers |
| Darioush Agahi | 262 | 87% | P45 Typical for peers |
| Jangwoen Lee | 96 | 87% | P45 Typical for peers |
| Ryan C Robinson | 900 | 85% | P42 Typical for peers |
| Sunita Joshi | 1,198 | 85% | P40 Typical for peers |
| Huyen X Vo | 1,114 | 87% | P36 Typical for peers |
| Quoc Duc Tran | 1,036 | 89% | P26 Typical for peers |
| Binh Kien Tieu | 1,053 | 90% | P23 Easier than peers |
| Abul K Azad | 1,062 | 88% | P23 Easier than peers |
| Uthej Kunamneni | 16 | 88% | P22 |
| Shreyans A Patel | 583 | 90% | P22 Easier than peers |
| Eunice Somin Lee | 82 | 90% | P21 Easier than peers |
| Suhan Ni | 1,328 | 89% | P20 Easier than peers |
| Creighton H Smith | 709 | 92% | P16 Easier than peers |
| Melur Ramakrishnaiah | 1,759 | 92% | P11 Easier than peers |
| Brian Ensey | 948 | 92% | P9 Easier than peers |
| Tuan Duc Nguyen | 1,165 | 89% | P7 Easier than peers |