Listed by the USPTO as WOOLWINE, SHANE D
Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2124 2135 2156 2185 2425
This examiner grants 86% of resolved cases
Shane D Woolwine is an examiner in Art Unit 2124 of Tech Center 2400, where he has overseen 385 resolved cases. He has an allowance rate of 86.5 percent and a median time to allowance of 1037 days. The data shows a significant interview lift of 20.5 percent, indicating that direct engagement with the examiner is a useful strategy for advancing applications toward a grant. This lift suggests that verbal communication can notably increase the probability of success compared to the baseline allowance rate.
Major companies such as International Business Machines Corporation, Robert Bosch GmbH, and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. are prominent in his docket. Legal representation is frequently managed by CANTOR COLBURN LLP, Crowell, and Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. With an 86.5 percent allowance rate and a 20.5 percent interview lift, practitioners can expect a generally favorable prosecution process, with interviews providing a notable benefit. The 1037-day median pendency provides a clear expectation for the duration of the prosecution cycle before this examiner.
| App # | Title | Status | Assignee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17455075 | Training Method for Convolutional Neural Network and System | Final Rejection | Robert Bosch GmbH |
| 18391534 | INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD AND APPARATUS | Non-Final OA | HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. |
| 18469909 | RE-ARRANGING FEED FORWARD NETWORKS (FFNs) IN TRANSFORMER-BASED MODELS | Final Rejection | QUALCOMM Incorporated |
| 18405025 | PERFORMING A DATA PROCESSING TASK ON A DATA SET USING PRETRAINED LANGUAGE MODELS | Non-Final OA | International Business Machines Corporation |
| 18511170 | SIMULTANEOUS QUANTUM JOB EXECUTION WITH QUBIT ISOLATION | Non-Final OA | International Business Machines Corporation |
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Build Your Strategy86.5% of resolved applications examined by Shane D Woolwine were allowed (385 resolved cases), compared with 63.1% across Art Unit 2124 over the last five years.
This examiner's interview lift is +20.5 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.
Applications allowed by Shane D Woolwine took 1,037 days on average from filing to allowance.
Shane D Woolwine examines applications in Art Unit 2124 in Tech Center 2400 (Networking & Security).
