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%
+11 pts vs tech center 3600 allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
81%
+10 pts vs tech center 3600 range 81% to 82%
Rejections before allowance
1.5
−0.1 vs tech center 3600
Months to first action
20.9 mo
+2.5 vs tech center 3600
In plain words
With Art unit 3664, 79% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action, against 68% for tech center 3600. The first action takes 20.9 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 17,645 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 3600. 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 3600.
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 3600, 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 3600.
What works
Allowance by strategy used
Allowance rate among decided cases where each move was used at least once, against tech center 3600.
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 3600.
Who files here
Assignees and firms with the most applications
How often each one was allowed with this unit.
Landscape
Examiners across tech center 3600
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael P Nguyen | 1 | 0% | P100 |
| Irene C Khuu | 57 | 42% | P97 Harder than peers |
| Joseph Anderson Yanoska | 79 | 42% | P94 Harder than peers |
| Neit Josafat Nieves Flores | 35 | 43% | P94 Harder than peers |
| Kai Nmn Wang | 150 | 57% | P94 Harder than peers |
| Kirsten Jade M Santos | 118 | 53% | P92 Harder than peers |
| Hongye Liang | 302 | 63% | P91 Harder than peers |
| Rafael Velasquez Vanegas | 10 | 33% | P84 |
| Kevin Jerome Harvey II | 67 | 45% | P80 Harder than peers |
| Erin Marie Hartmann | 54 | 70% | P79 Harder than peers |
| Stephen Holwerda | 721 | 74% | P78 Harder than peers |
| Roy B Rhee | 237 | 72% | P76 Harder than peers |
| Alexander Vincent Gentile | 90 | 69% | P74 Typical for peers |
| Zachary Edward Frew Glade | 80 | 69% | P74 Typical for peers |
| Rose Ridder | 44 | 46% | P73 Typical for peers |
| Joshua Alexander Garza | 98 | 76% | P70 Typical for peers |
| Abby Yee Lin | 300 | 67% | P70 Typical for peers |
| Nada Mahyoob Alqaderi | 153 | 78% | P64 Typical for peers |
| Brian J Broadhead | 114 | 55% | P56 Typical for peers |
| Spencer D Patton | 633 | 79% | P55 Typical for peers |
| Marie Weiskopf | 2 | 50% | P54 |
| Thuy-Vi Thi Nguyen | 863 | 63% | P54 Typical for peers |
| Hossam M Abd El Latif | 365 | 82% | P42 Typical for peers |
| Alyzia N Dilworth | 33 | 70% | P39 Typical for peers |
| Danielle Marie Jackson | 193 | 83% | P39 Typical for peers |
| Jorge O Peche | 669 | 83% | P38 Typical for peers |
| Bao Long T Nguyen | 670 | 84% | P37 Typical for peers |
| Jamal A Shah | 110 | 89% | P35 Typical for peers |
| B M M Hannan | 623 | 84% | P34 Typical for peers |
| Harry Y Oh | 859 | 87% | P31 Typical for peers |
| Ryan J Rink | 608 | 81% | P30 Typical for peers |
| Dylan Brandon Mooney | 69 | 90% | P29 Typical for peers |
| Nikhil Sriraman | 17 | 71% | P29 |
| Hana Victoria Hall | 55 | 78% | P29 Typical for peers |
| Jason R Holloway | 859 | 81% | P29 Typical for peers |
| Hushmeen J Khan | 6 | 83% | P27 |
| Erick Thomas Detweiler | 34 | 91% | P26 Typical for peers |
| Nicholas Kiswanto | 567 | 86% | P26 Typical for peers |
| Robert T Nguyen | 602 | 86% | P23 Easier than peers |
| Jonathan L Sample | 1,113 | 86% | P23 Easier than peers |
| Anthony Gabriel Mora | 70 | 84% | P23 Easier than peers |
| Ronnie M Mancho | 1,206 | 84% | P22 Easier than peers |
| Tanya Christine Sienko | 260 | 88% | P19 Easier than peers |
| Dale S Moyer | 816 | 87% | P15 Easier than peers |
| Bhavesh V Amin | 1,107 | 88% | P12 Easier than peers |
| Dalena Tran | 1,154 | 90% | P10 Easier than peers |
| Shahzab Hussain Shah | 9 | 100% | P9 |
| Mingjen Jen | 1,083 | 88% | P9 Easier than peers |
| Jaime Figueroa | 1,150 | 89% | P7 Easier than peers |
| John Franklin Hobbs III | 2 | 100% | P4 |
| Jonathan A Goldfarb | 1 | 100% | P4 |
| Achaiah Ruben Abul | 1 | 100% | P4 |
| Jonathan J Pitts | 3 | 100% | P2 |
| Sandeep A Stanley | 1 | 100% | P1 |