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Domain A63F

Card, board, or video games27,561 applicationsExamined mostly in 3715, 3711, 3714, 3716

3-year grant rate
68%
allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
72%
range 71% to 72%
Rejections before allowance
1.7
Months to first action
17.8 mo

In plain words

With A63F, 68% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action. The first action takes 17.8 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.

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Questions practitioners ask, answered from 27,561 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 all domains. 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 all domains.

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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.

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Compared with peers

Against the art unit, the tech center and the USPTO

The same figures for this record, all domains, the tech center and the whole office.

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Allowance over time

How fast applications are allowed, or abandoned

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Rejection fingerprint

What gets rejected, by statute

Share of office actions raising each ground; blue is all domains.

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What works

Allowance by strategy used

Allowance rate among decided cases where each move was used at least once, against all domains.

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Interviews

Does an interview help?

Allowance with and without an examiner interview, and how often interviews happen.

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Odds by round

Chance the next action is an allowance

After the first, second and later rejections.

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Response clock

Days from a response to the next action

How long the examiner takes to act once you have answered.

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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.

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Appeals

What happens on appeal

Appeals filed, briefs, examiner’s answers, and how the Board decided.

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Trend

Allowance rate by filing year

Is it getting easier or harder? Gold is this record, blue is all domains.

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Inventors

Who invents most in this domain

Inventor 135 apps
Inventor 230 apps
Inventor 325 apps
Inventor 420 apps
Inventor 515 apps
Inventor 610 apps
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Places

Where it is invented

City 181 apps
City 272 apps
City 363 apps
City 454 apps
City 545 apps
City 636 apps
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Examiners

Who examines A63F

ExaminerCases in A63FOverall allowance rateDifficulty
Docket Central10612%Easier than peers
Omkar A Deodhar64887%Easier than peers
Vishu K Mendiratta63435%Harder than peers
Jason Tahai Yen62580%Easier than peers
Ronald Laneau61390%Easier than peers
Pierre E Elisca56592%Easier than peers
Benjamin Layno53775%Easier than peers
Steve Rowland47380%Easier than peers
Seng Heng Lim46571%Typical for peers
Lawrence Stefan Galka46379%Easier than peers
Michael David Dennis45062%Typical for peers
Dolores R Collins44853%Typical for peers
Shauna-Kay N Hall44283%Easier than peers
Paul Anthony D'agostino43780%Easier than peers
Damon Joseph Pierce43279%Typical for peers
Michael A Cuff43084%Easier than peers
Reginald A Renwick42281%Easier than peers
Allen Chan41581%Easier than peers
Eric M Thomas41171%Typical for peers
James S McClellan41084%Easier than peers
Steven J Hylinski40478%Easier than peers
Ankit B Doshi39366%Typical for peers
Carl Victor Larsen37770%Typical for peers
Jay Trent Liddle37260%Typical for peers
Kevin Y Kim36582%Easier than peers