Technology center

Tech center 1600

67 art units1,364 examiners640,095 applications

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3-year grant rate

56%

allowed within 3 years of the first action

Allowance rate

61%

range 61% to 61%

Rejections before allowance

1.8

Months to first action

16.7 mo

In plain words

With Tech center 1600, 56% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action. The first action takes 16.7 months on average.

Examiner difficulty

How examiners in this tech center compare

The spread of examiners on each measure. Click a bar to see who is in it.

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 640,095 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 tech centers. 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 tech centers.

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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 tech centers, the tech center and the whole office.

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Allowance over time

How fast applications are allowed, or abandoned

Share allowed (gold) and abandoned (red) by month since filing, with pending cases counted only while they are pending.

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Rejection fingerprint

What gets rejected, by statute

Share of office actions raising each ground; blue is all tech centers.

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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 tech centers.

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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 tech centers.

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Landscape

Every examiner in tech center 1600

Each dot is an examiner: allowance rate across, rejections before allowance down, size by caseload. Click one to open it.

Hardest examiners

Examiner	Art unit	Apps	Allowance
Rebecca Lynn Scotland Harder than peers	1615	103	0%
Sreenivasan Padmanabhan Harder than peers	1627	54	0%
Michael D Allen Harder than peers	1642	675	28%
Stephanie A N McNeil Harder than peers	1653	358	11%
Corey Lane Bretz Harder than peers	1635	83	0%
Evan Michael Lewoczko Harder than peers	1612	58	0%
David Browe Harder than peers	1617	944	24%
Gerald R Ewoldt Harder than peers	1644	517	23%
Shaojia A Jiang Harder than peers	1623	86	3%
Amanda Lynn Chi Harder than peers	1613	73	0%

Easiest examiners

Examiner	Art unit	Apps	Allowance
Jasmine Afiya Evans Easier than peers	1616	44	100%
Carlos A Azpuru Easier than peers	1617	1307	83%
Eric Parker Mosher Easier than peers	1612	69	100%
Makenna Ryleigh Miller Easier than peers	1611	54	100%
Cierra Marie Rochelle Easier than peers	1627	47	100%
Peter Nguyen Easier than peers	1685	43	100%
Evan Godfrey Thomae Easier than peers	1623	39	100%
Rei Tsang Shiao Easier than peers	1628	2285	77%
Prema Maria Mertz Easier than peers	1646	1403	75%
Yevgeny Valenrod Easier than peers	1628	1362	76%

Art units

Every art unit in the center

Art unit	Examiners	Applications	Allowance rate	Rejections before allowance	Months to first action	RCE rate
1600	13	420	42%	2.5	24.8	30%
1611	40	10,665	46%	2.2	16.8	39%
1612	44	14,193	55%	2.3	15.4	37%
1613	26	12,186	50%	2.2	14.8	40%
1614	41	3,823	50%	2.0	20.2	32%
1615	43	14,147	61%	2.0	14.8	35%
1616	39	11,080	48%	2.2	17.1	35%
1617	43	12,391	54%	2.2	14.9	38%
1618	30	11,854	52%	2.2	18.2	37%
1619	28	9,819	38%	2.9	16.5	46%
1621	72	17,176	68%	1.4	15.6	21%
1622	53	15,708	77%	1.3	13.2	18%
1623	39	11,133	62%	1.7	16.8	25%
1624	35	23,426	73%	1.4	11.9	17%
1625	37	23,219	72%	1.2	10.9	16%
1626	41	23,442	72%	1.2	12.6	17%
1627	41	16,531	49%	1.9	16.3	28%
1628	36	17,676	49%	1.9	12.4	31%
1629	54	14,841	58%	1.7	14.2	24%
1631	47	9,853	45%	2.4	26.3	40%
1632	39	10,320	52%	2.7	18.9	40%
1633	42	11,001	51%	2.3	19.5	37%
1634	40	13,258	43%	2.3	18.4	35%
1635	31	9,021	57%	1.7	15.3	24%
1636	50	9,727	57%	2.1	17.4	32%
1637	41	12,375	61%	2.0	20.6	30%
1638	50	10,329	78%	1.3	21.7	13%
1639	24	4,001	53%	2.0	16.8	33%
1641	51	8,907	61%	1.9	21.8	29%
1642	29	10,762	52%	2.0	18.8	30%
1643	37	10,811	57%	1.8	20.3	26%
1644	35	13,676	52%	1.9	20.1	29%
1645	32	14,131	68%	1.8	13.4	27%
1646	36	10,540	56%	1.9	15.1	28%
1647	37	12,125	61%	1.7	14.5	23%
1648	30	10,483	61%	1.9	14.4	27%
1649	23	6,987	46%	2.0	13.3	30%
1651	39	10,625	54%	2.1	18.4	35%
1652	26	13,924	69%	1.7	15.1	25%
1653	35	10,596	48%	2.3	19.2	41%
1654	42	10,432	58%	1.7	16.6	24%
1655	29	13,890	59%	1.5	17.3	25%
1656	36	12,767	66%	1.5	16.5	25%
1657	43	9,424	59%	1.9	20.1	30%
1658	31	7,155	60%	1.8	15.4	34%
1661	9	870	64%	1.9	14.9	24%
1662	25	10,451	78%	1.4	16.9	18%
1663	29	12,309	82%	1.3	17.0	15%
1671	66	9,891	77%	1.4	13.9	22%
1672	41	5,869	76%	1.6	16.9	22%
1673	17	3,908	59%	2.0	16.1	32%
1674	34	7,417	70%	1.7	13.5	29%
1675	51	7,935	61%	2.0	13.2	32%
1676	17	3,028	66%	1.8	11.0	29%
1677	38	3,546	59%	2.0	25.4	39%
1678	22	5,148	60%	1.9	22.4	36%
1681	17	3,582	81%	2.0	25.4	37%
1682	18	2,829	61%	2.4	28.0	49%
1683	16	1,944	69%	2.1	27.2	44%
1684	17	1,909	73%	1.7	32.0	35%
1685	19	1,510	50%	2.7	39.0	61%
1686	19	1,352	57%	2.6	39.2	56%
1687	19	1,428	54%	2.7	40.1	60%
1691	16	3,120	84%	1.1	25.0	17%
1692	17	2,864	80%	1.2	29.4	24%
1693	20	3,037	73%	1.6	28.0	29%
1699	21	5,298	71%	1.8	19.8	29%