There seems to be a fair amount of concern, or at least discussion, lately about how many patents are being filed in and by the…
Like a moth to a flame, this week I was again drawn to the USPTO Office Actions data set. Although, I previously found that coverage…
As I mentioned in my last post, many believe the reason allowance rates remain high in the face of subject matter eligibility carnage is that applicants…
Last week I posted a bunch of stats about 101 rejections in the age of Alice and Mayo. The data I presented suggested that, for…
Patentlyo.com recently published a great article from Colleen Chien about the impact of subject matter eligibility rejections on patent prosecution. Here’s a recent analysis I…
Eli Mazour was wondering how many examiners have not allowed any applications this year. Since he has a cool podcast (with an impressive list of past guests),…
As I touched on last week, for the ~80% of After Final Consideration Pilot 2.0 (AFCP) requests that are coded in PAIR, the amendments were…
Update April 2019: You can now lookup your examiner’s AFCP stats in BigPatentData Examiner Analytics. The After Final Consideration Pilot Program (AFCP) 2.0 has again…
I have previously posted on what happens after an appeal brief (here and here) and what happens after a pre-appeal conference decision of “proceed to…
I am dealing with jet lag after 2 weeks in Russia (Putin says hi), plus there is a lot going on with the IPO annual…