Posts Tagged: Art Unit
USPTO Announces Access to Relevant Prior Art Initiative to Import Prior Art Citations into Patent Applications
The USPTO recently announced the implementation of the first phase of the Access to Relevant Prior Art (RPA) Initiative. The initiative is being designed to reduce the …
The importance of reviewing statistics within an individual art unit
We collected statistics on recent activity within Art Unit 1655, which covers drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions. Overall, this Art Unit has an allowance rate of 54.3%, meaning …
Are patent examiners instructed to issue frivolous rejections?
So an applicant waits years on appeal to get relief from frivolous rejections, achieves a complete and total victory, and their reward is another bogus rejection from …
Avoiding Alice Rejections with Predictive Analytics
The disparity between the art units is confused even more so when we consider the total number of Alice rejections in each art unit, rather than just …
A Better Way to File Patent Applications
The PathWays system is designed to help applicants predict which art units an application is likely to be filed before the application is even filed. A unique …
The Most Likely Art Units for Alice Rejections
While Alice rejections can be found all over the USPTO, roughly two-thirds of them are found in TC 3600. Only TC 2900 has not had any Alice rejections. Looking …
Time to Disposition: Some Art Units Really Are Slower
“Time is money” rings especially true for those pursuing patents at the USPTO. Anyone who has previously dealt with this organization can attest to the fact that …
These Are the 20 Hardest and Easiest Art Units
Art Unit 3689 has the lowest allowance rate at 7.7%. Art Unit 3659 has the highest at 98.3%. Oddly enough, these two art units are from the same technology center. It’…
Patent Attorney Asks Examiner “Are you drunk?”
Are you drunk? No, seriously... are you drinking scotch and whiskey with a side of crack cocaine while you "examine" patent applications? (Heavy emphasis on the quotes.) …
Allowance Rates for Art Units Examining Business Methods
If I were a patent examiner that hadn't issued patents for years I wouldn't want anyone to know that either. Similarly, if I were a Supervisory Patent …
PatentCore Joins Forces with LexisNexis® on PatentAdvisor™
Reed Technology and Information Services Inc., a part of the LexisNexis® family and a provider of content management services, announced earlier today that it has joined forces …
75% – The Real Rate of Patent Applicant Success on Appeal
The biggest myth about patent appeals is that that the examiner usually wins. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) posts that it reverses examiners only one …
Exclusive Interview: Commissioner Focarino — Part 3
In this final installment of my interview with Peggy Focarino, Commissioner for Patents, we discuss the examiner count system, production and Art Units and Patent Examiners that …
Business Methods by the Numbers: A Look Inside PTO Class 705
What these numbers tell you is if your application is in Art Unit 3622 or 3689 you are in for a long wait to obtain a patent. The numbers …
At the Core: Patent Examiner and Art Unit Data Explained
Early in my career, I encountered a series of approximately 20 patent applications that were assigned to a small number of different art units. During the time it …
