Chad Gilles
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Joined Patexia at Mar 12, 2019
Founder
Chad Gilles
Apr 16, 2019
Foreword: To date, the BigPatentData Blog has given little no attention to design patents. This is because I barely know the difference between a design patent and a trademark. My good friend Dunstan H. Barnes, however, is an expert in design patents. I am therefor honored to have him as my first... Read More
Chad Gilles
Apr 4, 2019
In my previous post, I looked at two metrics - allowance rate and actions per disposal - that I find useful in assessing an examiner and formulating a strategy for dealing with the examiner. In this post I will look at three more such metrics: (1) Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Request... Read More
Chad Gilles
Mar 29, 2019
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 no clue and is just trying to pad his/her stats!" I bet most of us patent prosecutors have that thought way more than we would... Read More
Chad Gilles
Mar 20, 2019
No, my site did not get overrun by the pharmaceutical pushers that like to submit "advice" in the comments section. The title is referring to entity size (i.e., undiscounted, small, or micro). This posts will compare the three entity types on three high-level prosecution metrics: allowance rate, actions per allowance,... Read More
Chad Gilles
Mar 13, 2019
Below is an animated visualization of the subject matter eligibility 101 roller coaster that patent prosecutors and examiners have been on over the past 5 years. The visualization (interactive version available here, registration required) looks at applications assigned to three different examiners in art unit 3620 (Winner of the Nancy... Read More