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
64%
−2 pts vs tech center 3700 allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
71%
level with tech center 3700 range 70% to 72%
Rejections before allowance
2.2
+0.4 vs tech center 3700
Months to first action
26.2 mo
+5.5 vs tech center 3700
In plain words
With Art unit 3794, 64% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action, against 67% for tech center 3700. The first action takes 26.2 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 12,367 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 3700. 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 3700.
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 3700, 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 3700.
What works
Allowance by strategy used
Allowance rate among decided cases where each move was used at least once, against tech center 3700.
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 3700.
Who files here
Assignees and firms with the most applications
How often each one was allowed with this unit.
Landscape
Examiners across tech center 3700
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher A Holden | 1 | 0% | P98 |
| Aditi Shenoy | 1 | 0% | P98 |
| Matthew David Becton | 29 | 28% | P94 |
| Abigail M Ziegler | 161 | 46% | P91 Harder than peers |
| Ashleigh Lauren Kern | 113 | 38% | P90 Harder than peers |
| Yasamin Ekrami | 352 | 42% | P90 Harder than peers |
| Alyssa Morgan Pape | 104 | 25% | P87 Harder than peers |
| Davina En-Yin Lee | 121 | 40% | P84 Harder than peers |
| Linda C Dvorak | 122 | 13% | P81 Harder than peers |
| Ana Veruska Guerrero Rosario | 136 | 44% | P80 Harder than peers |
| Catherine C Premraj | 301 | 58% | P77 Harder than peers |
| Lindsay Regan Lancaster | 170 | 53% | P77 Harder than peers |
| Nora W Rhodes | 196 | 56% | P75 Harder than peers |
| Casey George Cha | 47 | 15% | P73 Typical for peers |
| Dana Lynn Stumpfoll | 124 | 55% | P72 Typical for peers |
| Ryan T Clark | 333 | 52% | P71 Typical for peers |
| Adam Joseph Avigan | 543 | 46% | P70 Typical for peers |
| Bo Ouyang | 502 | 62% | P68 Typical for peers |
| Christine A Dedoulis | 164 | 66% | P67 Typical for peers |
| Marina Delaney Templeton | 169 | 63% | P64 Typical for peers |
| Rachel A Vierra | 138 | 60% | P64 Typical for peers |
| Kyle Martz Brown | 104 | 11% | P63 Typical for peers |
| Christian Manuel Sarceno Robles | 38 | 50% | P52 Typical for peers |
| Adam Zachary Minchella | 453 | 65% | P48 Typical for peers |
| Bradford Christopher Blaise | 393 | 64% | P48 Typical for peers |
| Nils A Potter | 46 | 70% | P47 Typical for peers |
| Samantha M Good | 447 | 70% | P44 Typical for peers |
| Annie Lee Shoulders | 289 | 75% | P44 Typical for peers |
| Jaymi E Della | 914 | 70% | P44 Typical for peers |
| Jr, Ronald James Hupczey | 837 | 69% | P41 Typical for peers |
| William Eric Mossbrook | 100 | 59% | P40 Typical for peers |
| Annabeth Eliesse Rodriguez | 103 | 70% | P39 Typical for peers |
| Christopher Patrick Gloth | 3 | 33% | P39 |
| Brian Michael Antiskay | 723 | 70% | P38 Typical for peers |
| Kaitlyn Elizabeth Smith | 837 | 59% | P37 Typical for peers |
| Raghav Chowdary Atluri | 1 | 100% | P29 |
| Caitlyn E May | 7 | 43% | P28 |
| Sean W Collins | 455 | 76% | P28 Typical for peers |
| Khadijeh A Vahdat | 732 | 80% | P27 Typical for peers |
| Eun Hwa Kim | 660 | 75% | P25 Easier than peers |
| Thomas Anthony Giuliani | 895 | 78% | P23 Easier than peers |
| Christina Meraiah Ganan-Singh | 43 | 50% | P22 Easier than peers |
| Nicholas S Borsch | 203 | 77% | P20 Easier than peers |
| Katherine E Maziarski | 6 | 67% | P20 |
| Dustin P Clary | 4 | 75% | P17 |
| Mystee Nguyen Delgado | 24 | 79% | P17 |
| Daniel Wayne Fowler | 1,138 | 76% | P17 Easier than peers |
| Tigist S Demie | 608 | 78% | P15 Easier than peers |
| Michael F Peffley | 1,337 | 81% | P12 Easier than peers |
| James A Cipriano | 19 | 84% | P9 |
| Beverly Meindl Flanagan | 183 | 82% | P8 Easier than peers |
| Abigail Marie Bock | 240 | 91% | P7 Easier than peers |