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Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 1741 1744 1745 1754 1792 3763 3783
This examiner grants 54% of resolved cases
Nicholas J Chidiac is a patent examiner in Art Unit 1741 within Tech Center 3700. He has reached a resolution in 217 cases. The allowance rate for these cases is 54.4 percent. This rate indicates that slightly more than half of the applications reaching a final disposition result in a patent grant.
The interview lift for this examiner is 34.6 percent. This positive lift shows that conducting an interview increases the likelihood of allowance compared to the 54.4 percent baseline. Practitioners should consider that the 34.6 percent lift represents a meaningful statistical advantage for those who choose to engage in formal discussions with the examiner.
The median days to allowance is 1116. This figure represents the time from filing to the final issuance of a patent. With 217 resolved cases, the 1116 days to allowance and the 54.4 percent allowance rate provide a stable set of metrics for applicants to use when planning their strategy in Tech Center 3700.
| App # | Title | Status | Assignee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18967132 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MOLD MEMBER AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MANUFACTURING APPARATUS | Non-Final OA | CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA |
| 18600268 | METHODS FOR ERROR CORRECTION DURING ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | Non-Final OA | Align Technology, Inc. |
| 18311113 | Additively Manufacturing Molds with Localized Gas Permeability | Non-Final OA | California Institute of Technology |
| 18278391 | Methods of Manufacturing Electromagnetic Radiation Altering Articles, Articles Made by the Methods, Apparatuses, and Methods of Altering Electromagnetic Radiation | Final Rejection | 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY |
| 18711601 | LINK MECHANISM, LINK DEVICE, AND STRETCHING MACHINE | Final Rejection | THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD. |
| 18690388 | A POLYMER MATERIAL FOR USE IN A 3D PRINTING PROCESS | Non-Final OA | SIKA TECHNOLOGY AG |
| 18373894 | ENDOSCOPE COMPRISING A FRICTION-REDUCING WORKING CHANNEL TUBE | Final Rejection | AMBU A/S |
| 18490165 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING APPARATUS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING METHOD | Non-Final OA | Screen Holdings Co., Ltd. |
| 18756032 | THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE COMPONENTS AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME | Final Rejection | Rohr, Inc. |
| 18755606 | POWDER LOADING IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING | Final Rejection | Velo3D, Inc. |
| 18234997 | GAS FLOW IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING | Non-Final OA | Velo3D, Inc. |
| 18576009 | FLOW REACTOR SYSTEM AND FLOW REACTION METHOD | Non-Final OA | AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH |
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