In plain words
With Jason Mitchell Thomas, 35% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action, against 64% for art unit 2423. Jason Mitchell Thomas is typical of the art unit, in the 75th percentile of all examiners by difficulty (the 100th is the hardest). The first action takes 27.8 months on average.
Examiner difficulty
Every examiner with enough decided cases, from the hardest to the easiest; the dashed line is this examiner. Switch the comparison set or the measure, and click a bar to see who is in it: the examiners you might have drawn instead.
Timeline
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.
Ask the record
Grant rate from the first action
The gold line is this record and the blue line is art unit 2423. The marker is the three-year grant rate.
Outcome simulator
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 2423.
Prosecution paths
Every application’s sequence of examiner actions, from the first action to the outcome. Hover a band for the count.
Compared with peers
The same figures for this record, art unit 2423, the tech center and the whole office.
Allowance over time
Share allowed (gold) and abandoned (red) by month since filing, with pending cases counted only while they are pending.
Rejection fingerprint
Share of office actions raising each ground; blue is art unit 2423.
After a response
How often each ground is gone from the next action once you have responded to it.
What works
Allowance rate among decided cases where each move was used at least once, against art unit 2423.
Interviews
Allowance with and without an examiner interview, and how often interviews happen.
Odds by round
After the first, second and later rejections.
Response clock
How long the examiner takes to act once you have answered.
Quarter-end timing
Allowances by week of the USPTO fiscal quarter. An even spread would put 15% in the last two weeks.
Appeals
Appeals filed, briefs, examiner’s answers, and how the Board decided.
Trend
Is it getting easier or harder? Gold is this record, blue is art unit 2423.
Who files here
How often each one was allowed with this examiner.
Cited art
From the rejections and the examiner’s citation forms.
Landscape
Each dot is an examiner: allowance rate across, rejections before allowance down, size by caseload. Click one to open it.
Applications
| Application | Title | Filed | Status | Rejections | RCEs | To 1st action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18099022 | CHARGING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | 2023-01-19 | Pending | 1 | 0 | 32.0 mo |
| 18000992 | BATTERY CHARGE/DISCHARGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD | 2022-12-07 | Pending | 1 | 0 | 32.4 mo |
| 17989809 | MULTI-PURPOSE CHARGER | 2022-11-18 | Pending | 1 | 0 | 33.7 mo |
| 15227915 | Method and apparatus for adaptive signal processing | 2012-01-10 | Allowed | 1 | 0 | 12.0 mo |
| 15749816 | Composition and method for controlled release | 2015-02-11 | Abandoned | 4 | 1 | 23.0 mo |
| 15104440 | Distributed ledger transaction verification | 2018-03-12 | Allowed | 3 | 0 | 20.0 mo |
| 15430797 | Thermal management of battery assemblies | 2021-04-13 | Pending | 2 | 1 | 17.0 mo |
| 15850829 | Machine learning model for anomaly detection | 2012-05-14 | Allowed | 1 | 0 | 14.0 mo |
| 15742562 | Wireless power transfer coil arrangement | 2015-06-15 | Abandoned | 4 | 1 | 25.0 mo |
| 15591563 | Catalyst for selective hydrogenation | 2018-07-16 | Allowed | 3 | 0 | 22.0 mo |
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