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Jonathan A Goldfarb

No recent actionsArt unit 3664Tech center 36001 application

Art unit3664 117 examiners
Tech center3600
Active in the record2007 to 2008, 1 years
Applications examined1 1 allowed, 0 abandoned, 0 pending
Main domainsH04W
DifficultyP4 in the tech center, P5 of all examiners
3-year grant rate
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Needs 10 decided cases; has 1
Allowance rate
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Needs 10 decided cases; has 1
Rejections before allowance
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Needs 5 decided cases; has 1
Months to first action
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Needs 5 decided cases; has 1

In plain words

With Jonathan A Goldfarb, 100% of decided applications were allowed, against 81% for art unit 3664. The first action takes 7.4 months on average.

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Timeline

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

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Questions practitioners ask, answered from 1 application

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 art unit 3664. 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 art unit 3664.

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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

Share of office actions raising each ground; blue is art unit 3664.

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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 3664.

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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 Jonathan A Goldfarb sits in tech center 3600

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Applications

Every application examined

ApplicationTitleFiledStatusRejectionsRCEsTo 1st action
11608199METHOD TO PROVIDE WIRELESS BROADBAND COMMUNICATION TO A HIGH-SPEED MOVABLE VEHICLE2006-12-07Allowed107.4 mo
15989177Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing2012-01-10Allowed1012.0 mo
15912170Composition and method for controlled release2015-02-11Abandoned4123.0 mo
15396420Distributed ledger transaction verification2018-03-12Allowed3020.0 mo
15700804Thermal management of battery assemblies2021-04-13Pending2117.0 mo
15674315Machine learning model for anomaly detection2012-05-14Allowed1014.0 mo
15246523Wireless power transfer coil arrangement2015-06-15Abandoned4125.0 mo
15956964Catalyst for selective hydrogenation2018-07-16Allowed3022.0 mo
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