## U.S. Patents to Foreign Inventors

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…

## Did Alice bring more 102, 103, and 112 rejections?

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…

## Are U.S. Patent Filings Plummeting Due to Eligibility Uncertainty?

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…

## Another Look at the USPTO Office Actions Dataset

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…

## Mayo and Alice Had Little Impact on Prosecution (Except for a Few Art Units)

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…

## Final Rejection and Allowance Statistics (The 0-Fer Club)

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),…

## After Final Consideration Pilot Amendments: Do “Difficult” Examiners Routinely Dismiss Them?

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…

## AFCP 2.0 Has Been Extended, But Should You use It?

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…

## When I said “Proceed to Appeal” What I Meant Was . . .

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…

## Never Give Up? (The 15 Applications with Most Non-final Rejections)

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…