Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 26, 2026

Andre Pierre Louis, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE

Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 2118 2123 2127 2146 2187 3799

This examiner grants 68% of resolved cases

Analysis

PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE is assigned to technology center 3700 and art unit 2118. The record includes 666 resolved cases, with an allowance rate of 68.2%. This volume provides a substantial basis for evaluating outcomes, while the rate reflects a meaningful but not dominant allowance tendency.

The median time to allowance is 1319 days. Interview lift is 15.1%, indicating that interviews are associated with a higher allowance rate than matters without interviews. The relationship supports including interviews in prosecution planning when substantive discussion may help resolve issues.

The recurring companies are Hitachi Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The listed firms are Crowell, MATTINGLY & MALUR, PC, and Xsensus. Counsel should account for an extended pendency path and use focused responses to preserve the prospect of allowance.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

68.2%
Allow Rate
-1.8% vs TC avg
704
Total Applications
+15.1%
Interview Lift
1319
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 666 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

29.4%
§101 Eligibility
13.2%
§102 Novelty
38.9%
§103 Obviousness
15.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18541413 Controlled Foam Compressibility Using Constant Wall Thickness Between Cells Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18360790 System Design Process for Multi-layered Transport Networks Non-Final OA Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
18203097 OBJECT-AGNOSTIC FAST GRASPING-POINTS ESTIMATION VIA GEOMETRIC-ALGEBRA Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18225687 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODIFYING PARAMETER OF KINEMATIC PAIR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
17916799 MANUFACTURING SYSTEM DESIGN VERIFICATION DEVICE Final Rejection Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
18058362 STATE QUANTITY PREDICTION DEVICE AND STATE QUANTITY PREDICTION METHOD Final Rejection MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
18022138 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER AIDED-DESIGN (CAD) MODEL IN A CAD ENVIRONMENT Non-Final OA Siemens Industry Software Inc.
18057976 REGIME SHIFT DETECTION Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17914190 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PLANNING AND/OR CONTROLLING A PRODUCTION BY A PRODUCTION SYSTEM, AND PRODUCTION PLANNING AND/OR CONTROL SYSTEM FOR PRODUCTION OPTIMIZATION Final Rejection ZF Friedrichshafen AG
18192127 Real-Time Height Field Generation of a Multi-Phase Fluid and Granular Substance Mixture Non-Final OA TENCENT AMERICA LLC
18527476 Asynchronous modeled system to perform graph analytics on fault-tolerant environments Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18519159 SIMULATION SYSTEM AND SIMULATION METHOD Non-Final OA Hitachi, Ltd.
17802581 DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES MANAGEMENT METHOD Non-Final OA HITACHI, LTD.
18192522 AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SIMULATOR Non-Final OA TORC Robotics, Inc.
17795896 SIMULATION DEVICE, SIMULATION SYSTEM, CONVEYANCE SYSTEM, AND SIMULATION METHOD Final Rejection HITACHI INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS, LTD.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Andre Pierre Louis's allowance rate?

68.2% of resolved applications examined by Andre Pierre Louis were allowed (666 resolved cases), compared with 42.6% across Art Unit 2118 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Andre Pierre Louis?

This examiner's interview lift is +15.1 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Andre Pierre Louis take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Andre Pierre Louis took 1,319 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Andre Pierre Louis work in?

Andre Pierre Louis examines applications in Art Unit 2118 in Tech Center 3700 (Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering).

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