Examiner Hammell Neil P (SPE)

1636-HAMMELL-NEIL-P

Employment Information

Art Unit:1636 — Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
Group:1630 — Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids, Recombinant DNA and RNA, Gene Regulation, Nucleic Acid Amplification, Animals and Plants, Combinatorial/ Computational Chemistry
Classes: 435 — Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
514 — Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
800 — Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes
536 — Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
424 — Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
506 — Combinatorial chemistry technology: method, library, apparatus
702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
530 — Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof
Phone:(571) 270-5919
Email:neil.hammell@uspto.gov
Title:Supvy Pat Examnr Comp Sci
Service:15 years
Grade:GS-15

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

82
3-Year Grant rate: 47% over 213 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 82nd

With Examiner Hammell (SPE), you have a 47% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Hammell (SPE) is a very hard examiner and in the 82nd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Hammell (SPE), where the timeline is relative to the date of the first office action. The three-year grant rate is the percentage of applications granted at three years after the first office action.

Comparison with Art Unit 1636

Examiner Hammell (SPE)'s grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 1636 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Hammell (SPE) 1.5
Art Unit 1636 1.9

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