Technology center

Tech center 2800

81 art units2,508 examiners1,516,332 applications

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3-year grant rate

83%

allowed within 3 years of the first action

Allowance rate

84%

range 84% to 84%

Rejections before allowance

1.3

Months to first action

17.1 mo

In plain words

With Tech center 2800, 83% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action. The first action takes 17.1 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 1,516,332 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 2800

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
Shun K Lee Harder than peers	2884	752	43%
Stefan Mikailoff Harder than peers	2831	557	46%
Christine Johnson Harder than peers	2844	169	12%
Ha Tran Nguyen Harder than peers	2829	52	0%
Ethan Alexander Tuttle Harder than peers	2897	50	0%
David C Nelms Harder than peers	2871	35	0%
David M Schindler Harder than peers	2858	704	40%
Chia How Michael Liu Harder than peers	2882	324	57%
Liam R Casey Harder than peers	2863	229	41%
Christopher A Schodde Harder than peers	2898	171	53%

Easiest examiners

Examiner	Art unit	Apps	Allowance
Thanh Lam Easier than peers	2834	1332	91%
Charles Matthew Brecht Easier than peers	2817	70	100%
Nolan Gabriel Stuessy Easier than peers	2812	33	100%
Douglas N Washburn Easier than peers	2863	30	97%
George B Bennett Easier than peers	2855	2041	92%
Mohammad K Islam Easier than peers	2864	1754	87%
Md M Rahman Easier than peers	2886	1334	95%
Bryan Bui Easier than peers	2865	1286	92%
Don Kitsun Wong Easier than peers	2884	678	95%
Osamah Murshed Easier than peers	2858	38	100%

Art units

Every art unit in the center

Art unit	Examiners	Applications	Allowance rate	Rejections before allowance	Months to first action	RCE rate
2800	16	649	76%	1.5	21.7	20%
2809	2	3	100%	0.0	6.5	0%
2811	43	15,686	80%	1.6	15.2	30%
2812	91	24,665	88%	1.2	16.8	20%
2813	46	15,638	86%	1.3	15.8	22%
2814	48	15,285	83%	1.4	14.6	25%
2815	45	13,046	76%	1.7	16.7	32%
2816	49	15,195	86%	1.3	14.1	19%
2817	94	22,926	90%	1.3	16.4	19%
2818	80	24,669	90%	1.2	15.0	19%
2819	45	14,620	91%	1.2	13.0	17%
2821	60	9,131	79%	1.1	24.0	13%
2822	37	12,725	82%	1.4	12.6	22%
2823	51	11,128	80%	1.5	11.7	23%
2824	36	21,429	93%	0.9	16.1	14%
2825	52	13,249	90%	1.2	17.1	18%
2826	46	13,859	85%	1.3	14.1	19%
2827	37	25,156	94%	0.9	14.3	11%
2828	31	13,854	81%	1.4	14.3	23%
2829	47	11,575	78%	1.5	14.5	29%
2831	80	27,486	89%	1.1	14.3	13%
2832	52	9,525	79%	1.2	15.2	16%
2833	66	29,721	82%	1.1	13.9	13%
2834	82	32,867	79%	1.2	21.4	18%
2835	87	29,089	76%	1.3	18.6	19%
2836	97	39,623	83%	1.2	19.9	18%
2837	76	45,584	84%	1.2	20.1	16%
2838	87	33,537	89%	1.1	19.2	17%
2839	41	11,425	87%	1.0	12.1	13%
2841	74	17,568	88%	1.2	18.2	18%
2842	60	28,386	89%	1.1	13.5	16%
2843	43	10,884	92%	1.1	17.6	12%
2844	55	22,565	86%	1.1	12.1	17%
2845	76	30,262	90%	1.1	16.6	18%
2846	38	7,390	87%	1.0	18.1	15%
2847	46	20,604	84%	1.2	16.2	21%
2848	31	13,452	83%	1.3	17.0	20%
2849	22	6,025	93%	1.1	12.4	14%
2851	47	17,316	90%	1.2	17.4	17%
2852	64	47,359	90%	1.0	13.5	14%
2853	73	40,772	87%	1.2	14.1	19%
2854	25	7,748	61%	1.8	20.6	31%
2855	88	37,502	87%	1.1	21.7	13%
2856	75	22,232	80%	1.3	22.5	15%
2857	118	20,794	79%	1.6	26.1	27%
2858	107	29,205	86%	1.2	20.7	18%
2859	68	21,868	77%	1.5	23.5	24%
2861	47	9,684	82%	1.2	20.9	16%
2862	46	6,561	75%	1.7	24.1	25%
2863	64	7,080	77%	1.7	22.5	27%
2864	18	4,489	76%	1.9	25.2	31%
2865	20	3,839	67%	2.3	26.2	36%
2866	22	5,918	86%	1.4	23.6	16%
2867	21	6,523	85%	1.4	19.2	18%
2868	17	6,225	83%	1.4	19.9	24%
2871	51	29,251	78%	1.5	17.8	26%
2872	108	57,420	81%	1.4	19.5	23%
2873	24	6,443	86%	1.0	14.9	11%
2874	48	25,542	87%	1.2	16.9	19%
2875	84	49,214	80%	1.3	14.8	18%
2876	36	19,661	85%	1.4	12.4	20%
2877	68	20,358	86%	1.2	18.9	20%
2878	39	17,809	84%	1.1	20.8	17%
2879	26	11,136	79%	1.2	13.4	16%
2881	37	21,413	85%	1.1	15.0	21%
2882	34	19,818	84%	1.4	17.7	22%
2883	31	11,747	79%	1.5	11.5	24%
2884	52	31,417	86%	1.2	18.2	18%
2885	26	5,621	60%	1.6	19.5	18%
2886	21	12,946	84%	1.1	14.1	19%
2887	19	9,453	79%	1.5	11.4	21%
2889	22	4,587	68%	1.4	21.4	20%
2891	46	15,813	81%	1.5	14.9	28%
2892	44	16,337	83%	1.4	14.9	26%
2893	76	24,350	86%	1.4	17.5	25%
2894	28	13,189	81%	1.4	13.4	26%
2895	37	12,676	85%	1.3	13.9	19%
2896	73	18,548	87%	1.3	15.6	22%
2897	62	19,853	90%	1.3	15.5	21%
2898	70	20,605	90%	1.4	15.8	26%
2899	62	15,529	90%	1.4	15.4	23%