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
100%
+10 pts vs tech center 2900 allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
94%
+3 pts vs tech center 2900 range 72% to 99%
Rejections before allowance
1.3
−0.1 vs tech center 2900
Months to first action
33.2 mo
+7.6 vs tech center 2900
In plain words
In Art unit 2913, 100% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action, against 90% for tech center 2900. An allowance took 1.3 rejections on average, against 1.4 for tech center 2900. The first action takes 33.2 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 16 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 2900. 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 2900.
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 2900, 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 2900.
After a response
Which grounds are withdrawn after a response
How often each ground is gone from the next action once it has been answered.
What works
Allowance by strategy used
Allowance rate among decided cases where each move was used at least once, against tech center 2900.
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 office takes to act once a response is in.
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.
Who files here
Assignees and firms with the most applications
How often each one was allowed with this unit.
Cited art
References cited most against these applications
From the rejections in the most recently decided applications.
Trend
Allowance rate by filing year
Is it getting easier or harder? Gold is this record, blue is tech center 2900.
Appeals
What happens on appeal
Appeals filed, briefs, examiner’s answers, and how the Board decided.
Landscape
Examiners across tech center 2900
Each dot is an examiner: allowance rate across, rejections before allowance down, size by caseload. Click one to open it.
The simulator, the paths, the odds by round, the response clock, the quarter timing and the withdrawals are read from the 15 most recently decided applications.
The record in depth
Where it is examined, who is behind it and what is pending
Filed and granted
16 applications filed and 15 patents granted, year by year
Filed by the year of filing, granted by the year the patent issued; the best year for grants was 2025 with 7.
Technology mix
What was filed, year by year
Applications by filing year, stacked by technology domain. Click a domain to hide or show it.
Who appears here
The law firms behind these applications, and how each one does
Applications across, allowance rate up; larger bubbles took longer. Click a bubble to open it.
Inventors
Who invents here most
Named inventors by the number of these applications they are on.
Inventor 139 apps
Inventor 234 apps
Inventor 329 apps
Inventor 424 apps
Inventor 519 apps
Inventor 614 apps
Inventor 79 apps
Explore the record
Every application, every decision, in view
Hover any mark for the case behind it, click to open it, and download any view as an image or a table.
Every application
Every application, each as a dot
Filed across, months to the decision up; green allowed, red abandoned, blue pending; larger dots drew more rejections. Drag across the years to zoom, click a dot to open the case.
Technology
Where the applications fall, and how each field fares
Sized by applications, colored by allowance rate. Click a field to open it.
Decision calendar
When decisions land, month by month
Ten years of allowances, abandonments and first actions. Switch the measure to see each.
Prosecution, case by case
The most recent decisions, event by event
Each row is one application from filing to its end: rejections, responses, interviews, RCEs and the outcome. Hover a mark for the date; click a row to open the case.
Examiners
Every examiner in the unit, ranked by difficulty
| Examiner | Applications | Allowance rate | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Bahta | 1 | 100% | P0 |
| Caron D Veynar | 2 | 50% | P0 |