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
79%
−4 pts vs tech center 2800 allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
81%
−4 pts vs tech center 2800 range 80% to 81%
Rejections before allowance
1.4
+0.1 vs tech center 2800
Months to first action
19.5 mo
+2.4 vs tech center 2800
In plain words
With Art unit 2872, 79% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action, against 83% for tech center 2800. The first action takes 19.5 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 57,420 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 2800. 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 2800.
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 2800, 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 2800.
What works
Allowance by strategy used
Allowance rate among decided cases where each move was used at least once, against tech center 2800.
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 2800.
Who files here
Assignees and firms with the most applications
How often each one was allowed with this unit.
Landscape
Examiners across tech center 2800
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| James R McGee | 202 | 45% | P97 Harder than peers |
| Audrey Y Chang | 1,282 | 48% | P96 Harder than peers |
| Wai-Ga David Ho | 73 | 8% | P95 Harder than peers |
| Ibrahima Diedhiou | 161 | 47% | P95 Harder than peers |
| Gabriel A Sanz | 194 | 64% | P93 Harder than peers |
| Stephone B Allen | 116 | 18% | P92 Harder than peers |
| Marin Pichler | 790 | 63% | P91 Harder than peers |
| Christopher J Stanford | 851 | 56% | P90 Harder than peers |
| Daniel Jeffery Jordan | 106 | 58% | P89 Harder than peers |
| Wesley Scott Ashton | 68 | 56% | P89 Harder than peers |
| Samanvitha Sridhar | 150 | 63% | P89 Harder than peers |
| Alberto J Betancourt | 226 | 63% | P85 Harder than peers |
| Jyotsna V Dabbi | 670 | 64% | P84 Harder than peers |
| Justin Wayne Hustoft | 149 | 66% | P83 Harder than peers |
| Key Muhammad | 152 | 63% | P83 Harder than peers |
| Jade R Chwasz | 1,092 | 65% | P83 Harder than peers |
| Cara E Rakowski | 668 | 66% | P82 Harder than peers |
| Ricky Levern Mack | 85 | 35% | P82 Harder than peers |
| Zachary W Wilkes | 1,081 | 68% | P82 Harder than peers |
| Journey F Sumlar | 738 | 72% | P81 Harder than peers |
| Daniele Manikeu | 184 | 64% | P81 Harder than peers |
| George G King | 767 | 61% | P81 Harder than peers |
| Andrew Russell Wright | 83 | 71% | P80 Harder than peers |
| Kuei-Jen L Edenfield | 250 | 78% | P80 Harder than peers |
| Joshua L Pritchett | 226 | 66% | P79 Harder than peers |
| Natasha Nigam | 116 | 59% | P77 Harder than peers |
| Rahman Abdur | 542 | 74% | P77 Harder than peers |
| Jie Lei | 1,026 | 72% | P76 Harder than peers |
| Thong Q Nguyen | 1,377 | 67% | P76 Harder than peers |
| Elizabeth Mary Campbel Hall | 100 | 67% | P76 Harder than peers |
| Lee A Fineman | 197 | 63% | P72 Typical for peers |
| Jeffrey E Madonna | 250 | 70% | P71 Typical for peers |
| Gary William O'Neill | 359 | 77% | P69 Typical for peers |
| Travis S Fissel | 652 | 78% | P68 Typical for peers |
| Jennifer Ann Jones | 121 | 69% | P67 Typical for peers |
| Alex Park Rickel | 119 | 74% | P66 Typical for peers |
| Ryan S Dunning | 540 | 77% | P65 Typical for peers |
| William M Johnson | 19 | 63% | P64 |
| Mackenzi Tate Bourquine | 152 | 78% | P64 Typical for peers |
| Kristina M Deherrera | 457 | 75% | P64 Typical for peers |
| Alaina Marie Swanson | 109 | 78% | P64 Typical for peers |
| Vipin Patel | 745 | 77% | P62 Typical for peers |
| Thomas K Pham | 172 | 60% | P60 Typical for peers |
| Kimberly N Kakalec | 662 | 79% | P60 Typical for peers |
| Adam W Booher | 635 | 78% | P59 Typical for peers |
| Ephrem Zeru Mebrahtu | 619 | 77% | P58 Typical for peers |
| Mahidere S Sahle | 1,291 | 82% | P56 Typical for peers |
| Dawayne Pinkney | 1,905 | 82% | P52 Typical for peers |
| Derek S Chapel | 1,150 | 75% | P51 Typical for peers |
| Mark J Consilvio | 281 | 66% | P50 Typical for peers |
| Balram T Parbadia | 717 | 78% | P50 Typical for peers |
| Ruby Lucia Kauffman | 77 | 80% | P49 Typical for peers |
| Ray Alexander Dean | 214 | 80% | P49 Typical for peers |
| Alicia M Harrington | 1,091 | 83% | P48 Typical for peers |
| Sharrief I Broome | 1,000 | 84% | P47 Typical for peers |
| Matthew Y Lee | 357 | 82% | P47 Typical for peers |
| Mitchell T Oestreich | 565 | 79% | P47 Typical for peers |
| Henry Abraham Duong | 651 | 83% | P46 Typical for peers |
| John Curtis Sipes | 191 | 81% | P45 Typical for peers |
| Brandi N Thomas | 1,326 | 84% | P43 Typical for peers |
| Jennifer Doak Carruth | 1,082 | 80% | P42 Typical for peers |
| Ricky D Shafer | 1,050 | 78% | P38 Typical for peers |
| Mustak Choudhury | 930 | 86% | P37 Typical for peers |
| Robert E Tallman | 975 | 84% | P34 Typical for peers |
| Jordan Marc Schwartz | 976 | 87% | P33 Typical for peers |
| Tamara Y Washington | 817 | 85% | P32 Typical for peers |
| Alessandro V Amari | 401 | 80% | P29 Typical for peers |
| Anna Elizabeth Smith | 80 | 83% | P29 Typical for peers |
| Christopher P Rivard | 3 | 67% | P27 |
| Leonidas Boutsikaris | 192 | 86% | P25 Easier than peers |
| James R Greece | 1,195 | 89% | P24 Easier than peers |
| Grant A Gagnon | 704 | 87% | P24 Easier than peers |
| Collin X Beatty | 887 | 86% | P24 Easier than peers |
| Wen Huang | 993 | 87% | P23 Easier than peers |
| Darryl J Collins | 1,822 | 91% | P21 Easier than peers |
| Frank G Font | 901 | 89% | P18 Easier than peers |
| Huy Kim Mai | 848 | 82% | P17 Easier than peers |
| Arnel C Lavarias | 1,242 | 85% | P17 Easier than peers |
| Tuyen Q Tra | 1,438 | 89% | P14 Easier than peers |
| William R Alexander | 1,302 | 90% | P14 Easier than peers |
| James Jones | 1,967 | 91% | P13 Easier than peers |
| Hung Xuan Dang | 1,216 | 85% | P12 Easier than peers |
| Mohammed A Hasan | 2,248 | 93% | P12 Easier than peers |
| Scott J Sugarman | 602 | 90% | P10 Easier than peers |
| Euncha P Cherry | 1,687 | 91% | P9 Easier than peers |
| Joseph P Martinez | 1,478 | 90% | P9 Easier than peers |
| Jack Dinh | 1,464 | 92% | P8 Easier than peers |
| Jhein Lakilak Siclon | 2 | 100% | P7 |
| Kenechukwu C Obi | 1 | 100% | P7 |
| Fayez G Assaf | 8 | 100% | P7 |
| William C Choi | 1,979 | 95% | P7 Easier than peers |
| William Brent Hernandez | 4 | 100% | P7 |
| Robert Tongxay Hackett | 1 | 100% | P7 |
| Muhammad Alawi Fadag | 4 | 100% | P7 |
| Loha Ben | 947 | 93% | P6 Easier than peers |
| Seth David Moser | 85 | 98% | P6 Easier than peers |
| Evelyn A Lester | 1,037 | 93% | P6 Easier than peers |
| James Phan | 719 | 92% | P5 Easier than peers |
| David N Spector | 774 | 93% | P4 Easier than peers |
| Mayer Amitai Landau | 1 | 100% | P1 |
| Daniel Sahilu Kassaye | 2 | 100% | P1 |