Technology center

Tech center 3600

83 art units2,435 examiners1,016,305 applications

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3-year grant rate

68%

allowed within 3 years of the first action

Allowance rate

71%

range 71% to 71%

Rejections before allowance

1.6

Months to first action

18.4 mo

In plain words

With Tech center 3600, 68% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action. The first action takes 18.4 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 1,016,305 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 3600

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
Jr., Kelvin L Randall Harder than peers	3651	959	44%
Alfred H Tsui Harder than peers	3671	279	33%
Annmarie Dressler Harder than peers	3669	32	31%
Mary M Gregg Harder than peers	3694	643	13%
Michael E Butler Harder than peers	3655	432	56%
Chinedu U Ekechukwu Harder than peers	3695	281	2%
Paul McCarthy Allen Harder than peers	3669	241	45%
Chanmin Park Harder than peers	3661	204	47%
Mario Carlos Gonzalez Harder than peers	3668	174	34%
Matthew S Weronski Harder than peers	3627	170	11%

Easiest examiners

Examiner	Art unit	Apps	Allowance
Richard Thomas Price Jr Easier than peers	3643	1816	92%
Donald Champagne Easier than peers	3688	101	88%
Logan William Caudle Easier than peers	3641	36	100%
Alan S Miller Easier than peers	3683	924	75%
Romain Jeanty Easier than peers	3623	875	77%
John B Sotomayor Easier than peers	3646	691	94%
Zeina Elchanti Easier than peers	3628	538	67%
Daniel Lastra Easier than peers	3622	261	63%
William Donald Johnson Easier than peers	3631	32	100%
Rodney Andrew Bonnette Easier than peers	3647	1352	93%

Art units

Every art unit in the center

Art unit	Examiners	Applications	Allowance rate	Rejections before allowance	Months to first action	RCE rate
3600	18	868	58%	1.3	20.8	20%
3611	45	15,950	77%	1.3	18.5	12%
3612	48	24,881	87%	1.1	15.5	9%
3613	19	4,625	92%	1.1	23.0	12%
3614	35	6,481	92%	1.2	13.3	14%
3615	35	8,085	91%	1.3	23.1	15%
3616	54	18,814	87%	1.3	17.0	15%
3617	45	21,332	78%	1.4	17.7	15%
3618	46	16,228	77%	1.3	14.9	15%
3619	45	9,130	78%	1.6	19.6	29%
3621	66	6,342	39%	2.8	19.4	51%
3622	58	7,377	25%	2.8	21.1	48%
3623	63	10,301	38%	2.8	22.2	50%
3624	65	11,035	36%	2.7	21.3	53%
3625	85	13,019	51%	2.1	21.0	40%
3626	115	11,959	35%	2.6	23.3	47%
3627	49	10,567	62%	2.2	20.6	42%
3628	65	11,677	38%	2.5	21.6	45%
3629	52	8,211	31%	2.6	23.0	46%
3630	1	2	100%	1.5	6.0	50%
3631	25	13,778	72%	1.6	12.7	22%
3632	31	18,610	73%	1.5	14.9	16%
3633	32	17,525	72%	1.7	12.4	23%
3634	33	15,090	64%	1.9	17.1	27%
3635	40	15,636	72%	1.7	15.2	25%
3636	32	22,296	78%	1.4	15.5	15%
3637	37	16,970	71%	1.5	14.6	19%
3638	19	5,848	67%	1.9	8.7	27%
3640	1	24	86%	1.5	25.0	25%
3641	28	21,194	82%	1.2	12.1	15%
3642	42	11,451	75%	1.4	18.3	25%
3643	43	14,062	54%	1.7	19.5	24%
3644	49	16,244	78%	1.1	19.4	16%
3645	74	17,087	82%	1.4	26.0	23%
3646	41	11,156	76%	1.7	24.1	29%
3647	36	9,756	70%	1.7	19.0	24%
3648	63	13,551	87%	1.3	24.1	21%
3649	36	11,532	55%	1.6	20.2	18%
3651	31	21,441	82%	1.3	15.1	15%
3652	34	15,115	75%	1.6	17.4	22%
3653	29	13,310	83%	1.4	15.2	21%
3654	50	17,907	79%	1.4	20.6	18%
3655	61	19,545	86%	1.1	19.8	12%
3656	65	17,009	77%	1.4	15.8	20%
3657	51	17,110	76%	1.7	17.9	25%
3658	60	11,760	76%	1.5	20.6	24%
3659	22	8,850	90%	0.9	14.8	7%
3661	73	20,667	87%	1.2	19.4	15%
3662	86	16,627	79%	1.7	19.5	29%
3663	74	17,301	80%	1.5	19.3	26%
3664	117	17,645	81%	1.5	20.9	26%
3665	81	12,903	77%	1.6	20.0	32%
3666	71	7,716	79%	1.6	21.0	29%
3667	82	16,244	83%	1.4	16.9	24%
3668	54	12,369	81%	1.6	18.0	29%
3669	67	10,852	77%	1.8	18.6	32%
3671	46	21,092	78%	1.4	17.4	19%
3672	52	17,087	81%	1.7	18.0	23%
3673	46	15,399	65%	1.6	16.4	20%
3674	43	13,867	78%	1.7	15.8	28%
3675	38	15,819	79%	1.8	19.6	28%
3676	51	16,219	81%	1.7	20.2	26%
3677	36	20,632	70%	1.4	16.9	17%
3678	31	11,077	79%	1.6	17.1	22%
3679	43	18,292	73%	1.8	18.8	26%
3681	64	5,730	38%	2.7	21.6	53%
3682	71	6,470	49%	2.5	21.8	45%
3683	80	9,103	40%	2.4	21.5	48%
3684	70	6,906	51%	2.3	21.7	44%
3685	84	11,005	45%	2.7	23.9	51%
3686	73	10,550	47%	2.5	23.6	45%
3687	56	10,243	55%	2.3	19.9	41%
3688	70	7,735	48%	2.3	21.9	42%
3689	54	6,480	23%	2.8	24.0	42%
3691	45	8,355	57%	2.2	16.4	43%
3692	57	6,092	43%	2.8	16.0	55%
3693	49	6,243	43%	2.1	17.2	45%
3694	51	7,827	55%	2.1	16.5	45%
3695	43	6,668	40%	2.3	17.2	46%
3696	44	5,264	52%	2.3	16.5	48%
3697	39	4,211	56%	2.5	18.6	53%
3698	33	2,924	67%	2.1	17.0	51%
3699	25	1,950	71%	2.1	17.5	54%