Technology center

Tech center 1700

79 art units1,801 examiners879,183 applications

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3-year grant rate

63%

allowed within 3 years of the first action

Allowance rate

67%

range 67% to 67%

Rejections before allowance

1.8

Months to first action

20.6 mo

In plain words

With Tech center 1700, 63% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action. The first action takes 20.6 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 879,183 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 1700

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
Helen M McDermott Harder than peers	1727	346	20%
John M Hoffmann Harder than peers	1741	330	29%
Elizabeth D Ivey Harder than peers	1784	263	37%
Jacob Benjamin Stiles Harder than peers	1733	83	0%
Mikhail Kornakov Harder than peers	1714	54	0%
Simran Singh Saund Harder than peers	1734	36	0%
Steven L Weinstein Harder than peers	1794	46	0%
Stanley S Silverman Harder than peers	1736	30	13%
Thomas B McKenzie Harder than peers	1776	1175	57%
Rebecca M Fritchman Harder than peers	1797	756	44%

Easiest examiners

Examiner	Art unit	Apps	Allowance
Vivian S Cheng Easier than peers	1781	57	100%
Alexis Rose Ostwalt Easier than peers	1789	39	100%
Kent Gregory Mendoza Easier than peers	1754	34	100%
Roberts P Culbert Easier than peers	1716	1347	89%
Remy Frederic Lalisse Easier than peers	1732	70	88%
Jacob Jerome Schuler Easier than peers	1727	63	100%
Arti Khanal Easier than peers	1746	51	100%
Cameron Michael Baird Easier than peers	1728	50	100%
Santino Michale Servagno Easier than peers	1713	47	100%
Kyle Harrison Shipman Easier than peers	1771	33	100%

Art units

Every art unit in the center

Art unit	Examiners	Applications	Allowance rate	Rejections before allowance	Months to first action	RCE rate
1700	11	537	43%	1.4	27.8	23%
1709	2	2	100%	0.0	5.9	0%
1711	38	14,793	74%	1.6	21.2	26%
1712	35	10,768	57%	2.1	20.5	39%
1713	39	12,175	77%	1.7	17.7	29%
1714	31	10,369	64%	1.9	20.6	33%
1715	26	8,966	64%	1.8	19.7	29%
1716	26	11,967	60%	2.0	23.3	40%
1717	24	11,581	66%	2.1	19.3	38%
1718	24	6,898	52%	2.5	21.2	51%
1721	48	13,880	71%	1.7	17.6	29%
1722	44	13,688	79%	1.8	17.8	27%
1723	66	10,769	68%	2.0	23.1	40%
1724	53	9,295	73%	1.7	21.7	32%
1725	58	15,574	75%	1.8	23.0	31%
1726	53	14,183	63%	2.2	18.5	40%
1727	34	11,981	70%	2.0	23.8	36%
1728	40	3,496	65%	2.1	24.5	42%
1729	33	11,214	66%	2.2	22.3	41%
1731	40	14,431	73%	1.8	18.6	29%
1732	39	14,087	71%	1.8	19.4	30%
1733	34	14,595	70%	2.0	23.2	33%
1734	41	13,683	70%	1.7	22.7	30%
1735	27	13,724	66%	1.7	17.8	33%
1736	34	16,135	80%	1.4	17.8	21%
1737	35	7,616	80%	1.7	18.9	29%
1738	21	4,552	75%	1.8	25.6	35%
1741	35	12,915	70%	1.8	20.0	31%
1742	34	14,653	71%	1.8	22.0	27%
1743	37	13,603	76%	1.4	20.5	24%
1744	43	10,424	68%	1.7	20.6	29%
1745	28	12,453	73%	1.7	19.3	26%
1746	37	12,971	71%	1.6	19.8	28%
1747	44	9,853	59%	2.3	25.2	36%
1748	25	6,654	77%	1.6	19.9	29%
1749	21	4,868	59%	2.2	22.0	39%
1751	23	2,201	68%	2.0	29.4	54%
1752	26	2,479	84%	1.6	29.9	36%
1754	38	5,789	54%	2.0	21.4	37%
1755	45	4,178	44%	2.4	26.2	47%
1756	25	3,856	50%	2.2	22.2	38%
1757	17	1,703	27%	2.8	20.1	37%
1758	38	6,208	47%	2.1	26.3	38%
1759	59	13,766	73%	1.6	22.8	27%
1761	38	19,182	70%	1.7	16.4	30%
1762	37	21,712	79%	1.5	17.8	22%
1763	35	15,273	72%	1.8	18.7	32%
1764	30	13,690	67%	1.8	20.0	33%
1765	40	23,683	76%	1.6	17.0	24%
1766	25	14,184	73%	1.6	19.6	28%
1767	26	13,765	63%	2.3	19.1	39%
1768	13	4,555	63%	2.2	15.9	39%
1771	27	16,626	69%	1.9	17.6	32%
1772	52	14,401	75%	1.5	19.3	24%
1773	62	12,362	71%	1.7	22.0	27%
1774	38	16,965	75%	1.5	22.8	23%
1775	26	2,785	50%	1.9	24.3	25%
1776	48	18,360	77%	1.3	22.1	19%
1777	32	10,944	62%	1.8	20.5	32%
1778	28	10,277	68%	1.6	20.5	22%
1779	34	8,069	68%	1.9	23.2	33%
1781	45	10,487	60%	2.1	20.2	34%
1782	42	10,674	57%	2.1	22.9	37%
1783	39	11,561	56%	2.2	21.0	38%
1784	37	13,407	69%	1.8	19.4	30%
1785	24	10,633	68%	1.7	19.7	27%
1786	37	12,037	62%	2.5	25.4	43%
1787	35	12,280	47%	2.5	22.0	43%
1788	22	10,386	54%	2.4	19.5	39%
1789	43	8,875	42%	2.8	24.2	45%
1791	140	12,611	43%	2.1	20.9	34%
1792	121	11,624	44%	2.2	19.5	36%
1793	123	13,795	50%	2.0	19.6	31%
1794	155	9,428	64%	1.7	19.9	27%
1795	151	12,662	69%	1.7	21.1	26%
1796	175	12,890	65%	1.6	18.7	22%
1797	151	18,332	71%	1.5	21.2	24%
1798	52	11,291	69%	1.9	22.5	37%
1799	30	9,844	67%	2.1	22.2	37%