"Over the past several weeks, I published a trilogy of posts examining USPTO allowance rates from three different temporal vantage points: filing cohort dates, applicant disposal dates, and examiner action dates. Each approach answers a slightly different question about when and how examination policy produces outcomes."
"This post adds a complementary dataset: instead of looking at final outcomes (allowance or abandonment), it looks at the office actions themselves. Three charts below are all built from a dataset of published utility patent applications and plotted as three-month moving averages that smooths the data a bit."
A comprehensive analysis of USPTO allowance rates examines examination policy outcomes through multiple temporal frameworks. Three distinct approaches—filing cohort dates, applicant disposal dates, and examiner action dates—each reveal different aspects of when and how examination policy produces results. Rather than focusing solely on final outcomes like allowance or abandonment, this analysis incorporates office action data as a complementary dataset. The examination uses published utility patent applications analyzed through three-month moving averages to smooth data variations and provide clearer insights into USPTO examination patterns and trends.
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