The Prosecution Data Most IP Attorneys Never Look At
Examiner-level allowance patterns are public, stable, and almost never consulted before a first response.
Most prosecution strategy is set before anyone looks at who is actually examining the application.
What is sitting there unused
Every examiner has a history: allowance rate, average number of office actions, how often an interview changes the outcome. None of it is secret.
The gap is not access. It is that the data arrives after the decision it should have informed.
A cheaper habit
Pull the examiner's record before drafting the response, not after the second rejection. It changes whether an interview is worth requesting far more often than practitioners expect.
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