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Domain F02P

1,533 applicationsExamined mostly in 3747, 2836, 2844, 3742

3-year grant rate
83%
allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
85%
range 83% to 86%
Rejections before allowance
1.1
Months to first action
17.9 mo

In plain words

With F02P, 83% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action. The first action takes 17.9 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.

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Questions practitioners ask, answered from 1,533 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 F02P

ExaminerCases in F02POverall allowance rateDifficulty
Erick R Solis10692%Easier than peers
Hai H Huynh10495%Easier than peers
Johnny H Hoang8290%Typical for peers
John Kwon7591%Easier than peers
Mahmoud Gimie6988%Typical for peers
Hieu T Vo4995%Easier than peers
Joseph J Dallo4992%Easier than peers
Joshua A Campbell4256%Harder than peers
Arnold Castro4289%Typical for peers
Sherman D Manley3788%Typical for peers
John M Zaleskas3465%Harder than peers
David E Hamaoui3363%Harder than peers
Sizo Binda Vilakazi3281%Typical for peers
Kevin R Steckbauer2984%Typical for peers
Thomas N Moulis2890%Easier than peers
Anthony L Bacon2876%Typical for peers
George C. Jin2790%Easier than peers
Carl C Staubach2776%Typical for peers
Gonzalo Laguarda2674%Harder than peers
Jacob M Amick2185%Typical for peers
Willis Ray Wolfe Jr2092%Easier than peers
Xiao En Mo2088%Easier than peers
Raza Nehal Najmuddin1784%Typical for peers
Brian R Kirby1474%Typical for peers
Susan E Scharpf1383%Typical for peers