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
84%
+1 pts vs tech center 2800 allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
86%
+2 pts vs tech center 2800 range 86% to 86%
Rejections before allowance
1.2
level with tech center 2800
Months to first action
18.9 mo
+1.8 vs tech center 2800
In plain words
With Art unit 2877, 84% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action, against 83% for tech center 2800. The first action takes 18.9 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 20,358 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Susan J Middleton | 2 | 0% | P100 |
| Rufus L Phillips | 453 | 63% | P95 Harder than peers |
| Adrian Ignacio Silva | 23 | 43% | P95 |
| Chad Andrew Reverman | 118 | 61% | P94 Harder than peers |
| Rebecca Carole Bryant | 639 | 70% | P89 Harder than peers |
| Justin J Van Cleave | 31 | 65% | P88 Harder than peers |
| Joshua Michael Carlson | 147 | 62% | P88 Harder than peers |
| Tarifur Rashid Chowdhury | 85 | 52% | P86 Harder than peers |
| Gregory J Toatley | 54 | 43% | P83 Harder than peers |
| Violeta A Prieto | 434 | 67% | P83 Harder than peers |
| Paul Daniel Schnase | 77 | 73% | P81 Harder than peers |
| Mohamed Doumbia | 129 | 77% | P80 Harder than peers |
| Alexandria Arellano Mendoza | 83 | 66% | P74 Typical for peers |
| Willie C Merrell II | 51 | 71% | P72 Typical for peers |
| Roberto Fabian Jr | 211 | 74% | P71 Typical for peers |
| Huy Phillip Pham | 18 | 78% | P65 |
| Kemaya Deann Huu Nguyen | 140 | 78% | P64 Typical for peers |
| Maya Hendija | 3 | 33% | P61 |
| Judy Dao Tran | 129 | 82% | P61 Typical for peers |
| Maher Yazback | 120 | 80% | P59 Typical for peers |
| Langston Anthony Parks | 3 | 67% | P55 |
| Noah James Haney | 143 | 81% | P52 Typical for peers |
| Iyabo Alli | 380 | 85% | P44 Typical for peers |
| Kara E Geisel | 540 | 78% | P43 Typical for peers |
| Kaitlyn Elizabeth Kidwell | 113 | 82% | P40 Typical for peers |
| Dominic Joseph Bologna | 956 | 86% | P40 Typical for peers |
| Christina Ilona Xing | 105 | 85% | P39 Typical for peers |
| Hina F Ayub | 928 | 88% | P39 Typical for peers |
| Scott M Richey | 129 | 78% | P36 Typical for peers |
| Tri T Ton | 1,549 | 88% | P33 Typical for peers |
| Shawn H Decenzo | 608 | 86% | P33 Typical for peers |
| Maurice C Smith | 1,042 | 88% | P28 Typical for peers |
| Carlos Gabriel Perez-Guzman | 237 | 84% | P26 Typical for peers |
| Akbar Hassan Rizvi | 176 | 90% | P24 Easier than peers |
| Samuel A Turner | 42 | 79% | P24 Easier than peers |
| Amanda H Merlino | 390 | 85% | P23 Easier than peers |
| Juan D Valentin II | 225 | 83% | P22 Easier than peers |
| Jarreas C Underwood | 840 | 85% | P20 Easier than peers |
| Michael A Lyons | 1,283 | 89% | P19 Easier than peers |
| Fannie L Evans | 294 | 89% | P8 Easier than peers |
| Layla G Lauchman | 342 | 87% | P7 Easier than peers |
| Brodie Nathaniel Rowald | 1 | 100% | P6 |
| Hoai Thi Thu Nguyen | 2 | 100% | P6 |
| Patrick J Connolly | 246 | 93% | P4 Easier than peers |
| Bryan J Giglio | 3 | 100% | P3 |
| Clark David Hovis | 3 | 100% | P3 |
| Sebastian Alberto Arnez | 2 | 100% | P1 |
| Jonathan Skovholt | 1 | 100% | P0 |