Examiner: BURNS, KRISTINA BABINSKI

Analysis

Kristina Babinski Burns serves in Tech Center 3700 and Art Unit 3761, where she has overseen 37 resolved cases. Her allowance rate is 70.3 percent, providing a baseline for the 37 cases she has managed. For those applications that result in a patent, the median days to allowance is 1344, which defines the timeframe for successful prosecution with this examiner. These metrics offer a view of the historical performance in this specific art unit.

The interview lift for Burns is 31.7 percent, indicating a positive correlation between verbal communication and allowance. This 31.7 percent lift suggests that an interview is a tool for increasing the probability of success beyond the 70.3 percent baseline. Practitioners can consider the 1344 day median timeline when deciding whether to utilize the 31.7 percent figure to resolve outstanding issues. Although the data is based on a limited set of resolved cases, the lift indicates that direct engagement is a strategy in Art Unit 3761. This information represents an opportunity to change outcomes during the prosecution process.