In my last post I looked at how one patent examiner statistic — what I termed RCE allowance rate differential — can help inform whether…
For those of you that haven’t checked out BigPatentData examiner analytics in a while, a little while back I added strategy-specific allowance rates. These are…
There is a lot of talk recently about using art unit prediction in an attempt to “game the system” and avoid art units that are…
In the first post of this series, we saw that, overall, allowance rate goes down with each appeal. That seems to intuitively make sense because,…
In my previous post, I looked at two metrics – allowance rate and actions per disposal – that I find useful in assessing an examiner…
How often do you get 5 minutes into an office action and you start thinking “here we go again, another idiot patent examiner that has…
It should surprise no one that I think examiner statistics are useful (otherwise why would I waste time blogging about them or building BigPatentData Examiner…
In last week’s post I listed consecutive nonfinal actions as being an indicator of low-quality examination. My perception (based on only my own anecdotal experience)was that…
First, Happy New Year everyone. I hope you all made the resolution to use more data and less “gut instinct” in your prosecution this year…
If I want a quick (albeit imperfect) overview of how “easy” or “difficult” an examiner is, I generally look at 3 examiner metrics: Total Actions…