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Julian Anthony

No recent actionsArt unit 1726Tech center 1700615 applicationsEasier than peers

Art unit1726 53 examiners
Tech center1700
Active in the record2007 to 2023, 16 years
Applications examined615 462 allowed, 153 abandoned, 0 pending
Main domainsH01M, B60L, H01G
DifficultyP19 in the tech center, P19 of all examiners
3-year grant rate
72%
+14 pts vs art unit 1726 allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
75%
+12 pts vs art unit 1726 range 72% to 78%
Rejections before allowance
2.1
−0.1 vs art unit 1726
Months to first action
23.7 mo
+5.2 vs art unit 1726

In plain words

With Julian Anthony, 72% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action, against 58% for art unit 1726. Julian Anthony is an easier examiner than the art unit average, in the 19th percentile of all examiners by difficulty (the 100th is the hardest). The first action takes 23.7 months on average.

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Examiner difficulty

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Timeline

Applications by filing year: drag across the years to study a period

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Grant rate from the first action

Share allowed, by months after the first office action

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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 art unit 1726.

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Prosecution paths

How prosecution actually unfolds

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Compared with peers

Against the art unit, the tech center and the USPTO

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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

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After a response

Which grounds this examiner withdraws

How often each ground is gone from the next action once you have responded to it.

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What works

Allowance by strategy used

Allowance rate among decided cases where each move was used at least once, against art unit 1726.

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Interviews

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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

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Trend

Allowance rate by filing year

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Who files here

Assignees and firms with the most applications

How often each one was allowed with this examiner.

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Cited art

References this examiner relies on most

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Landscape

Where Julian Anthony sits in tech center 1700

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Applications

Every application examined

ApplicationTitleFiledStatusRejectionsRCEsTo 1st action
17173257BUTTON CELLS AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME2021-02-11Allowed202.7 mo
17074416METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION MATERIAL2020-10-19Allowed311.9 mo
16813776BUTTON CELL HAVING WINDING ELECTRODE AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF2020-03-10Allowed106.2 mo
15198577Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing2012-01-10Allowed1012.0 mo
15716260Composition and method for controlled release2015-02-11Abandoned4123.0 mo
15348710Distributed ledger transaction verification2018-03-12Allowed3020.0 mo
15916437Thermal management of battery assemblies2021-04-13Pending2117.0 mo
15288428Machine learning model for anomaly detection2012-05-14Allowed1014.0 mo
15554420Wireless power transfer coil arrangement2015-06-15Abandoned4125.0 mo
15206155Catalyst for selective hydrogenation2018-07-16Allowed3022.0 mo
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