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Domain G07F

25,370 applicationsExamined mostly in 3715, 3714, 3716, 3717

3-year grant rate
65%
allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
69%
range 69% to 70%
Rejections before allowance
1.8
Months to first action
17.5 mo

In plain words

With G07F, 65% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action. The first action takes 17.5 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 25,370 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 G07F

ExaminerCases in G07FOverall allowance rateDifficulty
Ronald Laneau85690%Easier than peers
Pierre E Elisca79592%Easier than peers
Docket Central6732%Easier than peers
Omkar A Deodhar66087%Easier than peers
Adetokunbo Olusegun Torimiro64480%Easier than peers
Milap Shah60677%Easier than peers
Paul Anthony D'agostino60080%Easier than peers
Jason Tahai Yen49080%Easier than peers
Kevin Y Kim48282%Easier than peers
Justin L Myhr47366%Typical for peers
Werner G Garner46263%Typical for peers
Corbett B Coburn42563%Typical for peers
Steve Rowland41180%Easier than peers
Steven J Hylinski40878%Easier than peers
Jasson H Yoo39866%Typical for peers
James S McClellan38784%Easier than peers
Timothy R Waggoner38573%Typical for peers
Ryan Hsu38160%Typical for peers
Seng Heng Lim37471%Typical for peers
Masud Ahmed36287%Easier than peers
Jeffrey Keith Wong34972%Typical for peers
Shauna-Kay N Hall34783%Easier than peers
Jason Paul Pinheiro33866%Typical for peers
Allen Chan33881%Easier than peers
Sunit Pandya33268%Easier than peers