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Last updated: October 26, 2026

Ross E Varndell, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as VARNDELL, ROSS E

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 2611 2631 2634 2666 2668 2674 2877

This examiner grants 85% of resolved cases

Analysis

VARNDELL, ROSS E has resolved 635 cases in technology center 2800 and art unit 2611. The allowance rate is 84.7%, and the median time to allowance is 834 days. Interviews are associated with a 13.2% lift in the allowance rate. The substantial record shows an allowance rate above half of resolved cases and a defined interview association.

NEC Corporation, Panasonic Holdings Corporation, and Intel Corporation are the listed leading companies. Akona IP PC - Intel, JCIPRNET, and Anova Law Group, PLLC are the listed leading firms. Counsel can use these recurring participants to identify the docket's applicant and representative patterns, then incorporate the interview figure into case-specific planning.

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

Performance Statistics

84.7%
Allow Rate
+16.7% vs TC avg
683
Total Applications
+13.2%
Interview Lift
834
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 635 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

7.0%
§101 Eligibility
6.3%
§102 Novelty
66.8%
§103 Obviousness
11.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18650706 METHOD OF PRODUCING STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER-READABLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMING ANOMALY DETECTION IN OBJECT WITH MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Final Rejection BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18754610 CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
18829909 ROBUST FRAME REGISTRATION FOR MULTI-FRAME IMAGE PROCESSING Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18993382 LIGHT SPOT TRACKING METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18787616 Attribute Recognition with Image-Conditioned Prefix Language Modeling Final Rejection Google LLC
18865380 CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS, TRAINING APPARATUS, CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18833505 CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS, CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
19012447 PRESENTATION INFORMATION GENERATION APPARATUS AND PRESENTATION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD Non-Final OA Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
18809990 FEATURE POINT REGISTRATION DEVICE, FEATURE POINT REGISTRATION METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM Non-Final OA PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
18810313 LESION DETECTION METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING LESION DETECTION PROGRAM Final Rejection Fujitsu Limited
18411542 IMPORTANCE-AWARE MODEL PRUNING AND RE-TRAINING FOR EFFICIENT CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18527490 3D OBJECT RECOGNITION USING 3D CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK WITH DEPTH BASED MULTI-SCALE FILTERS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
19063301 HETEROGENEOUS THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBSERVATION REGISTRATION BASED ON DEPTH PHASE CORRELATION METHOD, MEDIUM AND DEVICE Non-Final OA ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
18359774 SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING VISION TRANSFORMER BLOCKS Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
19012842 CLASSIFYING REGION VEGETATION USING VEGETATION INDEX SIGNATURE CURVES Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18755075 DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE Final Rejection Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
18979775 VISUAL HUMAN VERIFICATION USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18453248 TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING IMAGES OF OBJECT INTERACTIONS Final Rejection NVIDIA CORPORATION
18219969 CHILD PRESENCE DETECTION FOR IN-CABIN MONITORING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
19114828 Model Generating Method and Defect Inspection System Non-Final OA Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
18801852 IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSOR AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD Non-Final OA SK hynix Inc.
18833357 INSPECTION DEVICE AND INSPECTION METHOD Final Rejection Tsinghua University

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Ross E Varndell's allowance rate?

84.7% of resolved applications examined by Ross E Varndell were allowed (635 resolved cases), compared with 70.5% across Art Unit 2611 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Ross E Varndell?

This examiner's interview lift is +13.2 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Ross E Varndell take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Ross E Varndell took 834 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Ross E Varndell work in?

Ross E Varndell examines applications in Art Unit 2611 in Tech Center 2800 (Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics).

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