PATLY.AIExaminer difficulty
How examiners in this tech center compare
The spread of examiners on each measure. Click a bar to see who is in it.
3-year grant rate
91%
allowed within 3 years of the first action
Allowance rate
88%
range 87% to 90%
Rejections before allowance
1.3
Months to first action
20.8 mo
In plain words
With Tech center 4100, 91% of applications were allowed within three years of the first office action. The first action takes 20.8 months on average.
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.
Ask the record
Questions practitioners ask, answered from 2,384 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.
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.
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.
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.
Rejection fingerprint
What gets rejected, by statute
Share of office actions raising each ground; blue is all tech centers.
What works
Allowance by strategy used
Allowance rate among decided cases where each move was used at least once, against all tech centers.
Interviews
Does an interview help?
Allowance with and without an examiner interview, and how often interviews happen.
Odds by round
Chance the next action is an allowance
After the first, second and later rejections.
Response clock
Days from a response to the next action
How long the examiner takes to act once you have answered.
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.
Appeals
What happens on appeal
Appeals filed, briefs, examiner’s answers, and how the Board decided.
Trend
Allowance rate by filing year
Is it getting easier or harder? Gold is this record, blue is all tech centers.
Landscape
Every examiner in tech center 4100
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 |
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Easiest examiners
| Examiner | Art unit | Apps | Allowance |
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Art units
Every art unit in the center
| Art unit | Examiners | Applications | Allowance rate | Rejections before allowance | Months to first action | RCE rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4100 | 32 | 1,156 | 93% | 1.9 | 19.4 | 33% |
| 4111 | 7 | 7 | 71% | 1.4 | 14.0 | 0% |
| 4112 | 5 | 6 | 83% | 1.6 | 20.2 | 17% |
| 4113 | 6 | 7 | 100% | 0.4 | 24.0 | 0% |
| 4114 | 4 | 4 | 75% | 0.0 | 25.9 | 0% |
| 4115 | 5 | 11 | 82% | 1.3 | 12.2 | 18% |
| 4116 | 9 | 19 | 95% | 0.3 | 17.3 | 0% |
| 4117 | 5 | 20 | 95% | 2.2 | 18.0 | 40% |
| 4118 | 1 | 5 | 80% | 0.5 | 35.3 | 20% |
| 4119 | 2 | 18 | 94% | 2.1 | 25.4 | 44% |
| 4121 | 11 | 18 | 56% | 1.1 | 28.6 | 22% |
| 4122 | 6 | 13 | 85% | 1.5 | 24.1 | 46% |
| 4123 | 6 | 40 | 88% | 1.2 | 9.0 | 28% |
| 4124 | 5 | 18 | 78% | 1.6 | 22.9 | 39% |
| 4125 | 8 | 11 | 73% | 0.6 | 17.4 | 18% |
| 4126 | 5 | 11 | 73% | 0.5 | 27.2 | 9% |
| 4127 | 12 | 33 | 91% | 0.9 | 20.3 | 12% |
| 4128 | 6 | 6 | 83% | 0.4 | 27.9 | 0% |
| 4129 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0.0 | 9.5 | 0% |
| 4131 | 12 | 16 | 63% | 0.0 | 16.7 | 0% |
| 4132 | 8 | 32 | 97% | 0.8 | 27.1 | 13% |
| 4133 | 6 | 15 | 80% | 1.4 | 5.5 | 20% |
| 4134 | 20 | 33 | 88% | 0.5 | 27.6 | 9% |
| 4135 | 9 | 15 | 87% | 0.7 | 24.4 | 27% |
| 4136 | 12 | 27 | 89% | 1.1 | 12.7 | 22% |
| 4137 | 7 | 7 | 71% | 1.2 | 18.9 | 29% |
| 4138 | 2 | 4 | 75% | 1.3 | 16.4 | 50% |
| 4139 | 2 | 12 | 100% | 1.2 | 26.2 | 8% |
| 4141 | 3 | 15 | 93% | 1.7 | 15.8 | 27% |
| 4142 | 8 | 43 | 88% | 1.0 | 12.5 | 16% |
| 4143 | 8 | 13 | 54% | 1.1 | 24.8 | 23% |
| 4144 | 4 | 9 | 78% | 1.9 | 16.0 | 33% |
| 4145 | 5 | 5 | 80% | 1.3 | 27.4 | 20% |
| 4146 | 8 | 11 | 91% | 0.2 | 15.1 | 9% |
| 4147 | 4 | 16 | 100% | 1.3 | 26.2 | 25% |
| 4148 | 9 | 25 | 76% | 2.1 | 13.3 | 32% |
| 4149 | 2 | 12 | 100% | 3.4 | 22.0 | 50% |
| 4151 | 2 | 18 | 100% | 1.2 | 20.2 | 11% |
| 4152 | 5 | 11 | 73% | 2.3 | 26.7 | 36% |
| 4153 | 5 | 5 | 20% | 0.0 | 22.3 | 0% |
| 4154 | 9 | 10 | 70% | 0.6 | 27.2 | 20% |
| 4155 | 12 | 25 | 72% | 1.6 | 18.0 | 20% |
| 4156 | 4 | 4 | 50% | 0.0 | 26.0 | 0% |
| 4157 | 7 | 8 | 63% | 1.6 | 14.8 | 13% |
| 4159 | 4 | 14 | 93% | 1.3 | 33.1 | 43% |
| 4161 | 6 | 22 | 86% | 1.5 | 21.7 | 9% |
| 4162 | 2 | 2 | 100% | 1.5 | 17.5 | 50% |
| 4163 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 4.0 | 47.3 | 100% |
| 4164 | 4 | 51 | 100% | 1.5 | 19.8 | 37% |
| 4165 | 9 | 34 | 97% | 1.3 | 23.8 | 18% |
| 4166 | 5 | 6 | 50% | 0.3 | 16.9 | 0% |
| 4167 | 9 | 46 | 98% | 1.6 | 16.1 | 22% |
| 4168 | 2 | 18 | 94% | 2.4 | 23.9 | 33% |
| 4169 | 3 | 9 | 89% | 3.6 | 19.0 | 56% |
| 4171 | 7 | 25 | 76% | 1.3 | 14.7 | 8% |
| 4172 | 9 | 17 | 88% | 0.9 | 20.7 | 6% |
| 4173 | 5 | 15 | 93% | 1.2 | 21.4 | 27% |
| 4174 | 10 | 11 | 91% | 0.2 | 19.1 | 0% |
| 4175 | 9 | 17 | 88% | 0.1 | 19.3 | 0% |
| 4176 | 16 | 46 | 89% | 0.8 | 25.9 | 20% |
| 4177 | 12 | 27 | 89% | 0.8 | 18.3 | 15% |
| 4178 | 5 | 10 | 80% | 1.0 | 12.9 | 0% |
| 4179 | 5 | 5 | 60% | 0.0 | 31.1 | 0% |
| 4181 | 3 | 29 | 97% | 3.1 | 25.0 | 52% |
| 4182 | 4 | 27 | 96% | 0.9 | 24.0 | 15% |
| 4183 | 5 | 5 | 100% | 0.2 | 18.3 | 0% |
| 4184 | 8 | 9 | 78% | 0.1 | 27.7 | 0% |
| 4185 | 6 | 15 | 73% | 0.9 | 18.5 | 0% |
| 4186 | 1 | 3 | 100% | 1.3 | 8.0 | 33% |
| 4187 | 6 | 22 | 95% | 1.3 | 24.1 | 23% |
| 4188 | 5 | 15 | 100% | 0.8 | 13.1 | 13% |
| 4189 | 2 | 13 | 100% | 2.2 | 39.6 | 31% |
| 4191 | 9 | 16 | 100% | 0.4 | 19.1 | 0% |
| 4192 | 1 | 1 | 100% | 0.0 | 27.5 | 0% |
| 4193 | 8 | 16 | 100% | 0.9 | 15.4 | 19% |
| 4195 | 1 | 16 | 100% | 1.5 | 23.7 | 13% |
| 4196 | 1 | 15 | 93% | 0.7 | 30.9 | 0% |
| 4197 | 2 | 4 | 100% | 1.0 | 18.5 | 25% |
| 4199 | 1 | 7 | 100% | 1.0 | 10.2 | 0% |