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Eddie P Chan

No recent actionsArt unit 2183Tech center 210011 applications

Art unit2183 50 examiners
Tech center2100
Active in the record2008 to 2013, 5 years
Applications examined11 0 allowed, 11 abandoned, 0 pending
Main domainsG06F, H04W, G05B
DifficultyP99 in the tech center, P99 of all examiners
3-year grant rate
0%
−74 pts vs art unit 2183 allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
0%
−81 pts vs art unit 2183 range 0% to 26%
Rejections before allowance
n/a
Needs 5 decided cases; has 0
Months to first action
32.7 mo
+12.1 vs art unit 2183

In plain words

With Eddie P Chan, 0% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action, against 74% for art unit 2183. The first action takes 32.7 months on average.

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Timeline

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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

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Prosecution paths

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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

Share of office actions raising each ground; blue is art unit 2183.

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After a response

Which grounds this examiner withdraws

How often each ground is gone from the next action once it has been answered.

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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 2183.

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Interviews

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Odds by round

Chance the next action is an allowance

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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

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Who files here

Assignees and firms with the most applications

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Cited art

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Trend

Allowance rate by filing year

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Appeals

What happens on appeal

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Landscape

Where Eddie P Chan sits in tech center 2100

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The docket

What is on the docket, year by year, and what to expect from it

Filed and granted

11 applications filed and 0 patents granted, year by year

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Technology mix

What was filed, year by year

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Who appears here

The law firms behind these applications, and how each one does

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Explore the record

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Every application

Every application, each as a dot

Filed across, months to the decision up; green allowed, red abandoned, blue pending; larger dots drew more rejections. Drag across the years to zoom, click a dot to open the case.

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Among peers

Where Eddie P Chan sits among the examiners nearby

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Technology

What this examiner examines, and how each field fares

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Rejections over time

Which grounds this examiner raises, year by year

The share of examined applications that drew each ground, by filing year. Click a ground to hide or show it.

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Prosecution, case by case

The most recent decisions, event by event

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Applications

Every application examined

ApplicationTitleFiledStatusRejectionsRCEsTo 1st action
12561184Programmable Logic Configuration for Instruction Extensions2009-09-16Abandoned3114.7 mo
12490918METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM FOR LOW-POWER BRANCH PREDICTION2009-06-24Abandoned1030.8 mo
12487804DEPENDENCE PREDICTION IN A MEMORY SYSTEM2009-06-19Abandoned1029.0 mo
15938582Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing2012-01-10Allowed1012.0 mo
15302821Composition and method for controlled release2015-02-11Abandoned4123.0 mo
15131019Distributed ledger transaction verification2018-03-12Allowed3020.0 mo
15698267Thermal management of battery assemblies2021-04-13Pending2117.0 mo
15867182Machine learning model for anomaly detection2012-05-14Allowed1014.0 mo
15212599Wireless power transfer coil arrangement2015-06-15Abandoned4125.0 mo
15574203Catalyst for selective hydrogenation2018-07-16Allowed3022.0 mo
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