Examination events and final results of pro-se and represented applications.

Table cells show percentages of pro-se applications (middle column) or represented applications (right columns) for which the left-column-indicated event occurred. The remaining cells show the average number of claims or words-per-independent-claim in analyzed pro-se patents or represented patents. For each of these variables, a two-by-two contingency table was analyzed using Fisher's exact test using GraphPad Software to identify a preliminary p-value. Per the conservative Bonferroni correction, each preliminary p-value was then divided by ten, as ten comparisons were performed. Two stars after the presented percentages indicate that the corrected p-value was significant to a level of p<0.01.