Examiner Burkhart Michael D

1638-BURKHART-MICHAEL-D

Employment Information

Art Unit:1638 — Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Group:1630 — Stem cells and cell culture and Nucleic Acid related therapy
Classes: 424 — Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
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
530 — Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof
436 — Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing
604 — Surgery
506 — Combinatorial chemistry technology: method, library, apparatus
494 — Imperforate bowl: centrifugal separators
Phone:(571) 272-2915
Email:michael.burkhart@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Micrbiolgy
Service:22 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

70
3-Year Grant rate: 62% over 296 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 70th

With Examiner Burkhart, you have a 62% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Burkhart is a harder examiner and in the 70th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Burkhart, 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 1638

Examiner Burkhart's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 1638 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Burkhart 1.7
Art Unit 1638 2.1

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Burkhart has granted 174 of 283 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 61%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Burkhart has granted 10 of 13 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 77%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Burkhart, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 26%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
19070308 Method And Apparatus For Producing Car T Cells Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
17997042 Structure, Method For Producing Same, Adsorbent In Which Same Is Used, And Method For Purifying Bioparticles Abandoned View
17309209 Methods For The Simultaneous Expansion Of Multiple Immune Cell Types, Related Compositions And Uses Of Same In Cancer Immunotherapy Patented View
17285440 Programmable Dna Base Editing By Nme2cas9-Deaminase Fusion Proteins Patented View
18149611 Compositions And Methods For Treating Idiopathic Overactive Bladder Syndrome And Detrusor Overactivity Abandoned View
17908712 Method For Selecting Aptamers With High Target Specificity In A Microfluidic Device Platform For Co-Culture Of Multiple Tissues Patented View
17938787 Regulated Synthetic Gene Expression Systems Patented View
17126833 Methods And Compositions For Delivering Mrna Coded Antibodies Patented View
17582682 Arenavirus Particles As Cancer Vaccines Abandoned View
17936059 Compositions And Methods For Making Antibodies Based On Use Of Expression-Enhancing Loci Patented View
17559967 Chimeric Antigen Receptor Dendritic Cell (Car-Dc) For Treatment Of Cancer Abandoned View
17365912 Ligand Matched Transcription Control, Control Devices, And Solute Carriers Abandoned View
16988697 Cancer Treatment Methods Using Thermotherapy And/or Enhanced Immunotherapy Abandoned View
18054350 Compositions And Methods For Making Antibodies Based On Use Of An Expression-Enhancing Locus Patented View
17037804 Treatment Of Myotonic Dystrophy Patented View
16470924 T Cell-Targeted T Cells Abandoned View
17278847 Gene Therapy For Treating Propionic Acidemia Patented View
16510818 Meningeal Repair Using Human Umbilical Cord Patches Patented View
19171465 Compositions And Methods For The Treatment Of Ven/aza Resistant Acute Myeloid Leukemia Patented View
17701488 Vector System For Expressing Regulatory Rna Patented View
19043304 Pseudotyped Viral Particles, Compositions Comprising The Same, And Uses Thereof Patented View
17571325 Cd19-Directed Chimeric Antigen Receptors And Uses Thereof In Immunotherapy Patented View
17226961 Methods And Compositions For Editing Rnas Abandoned View
17659598 Vectors And Methods For Regenerative Therapy Abandoned View
16934606 Elimination Of Cd19-Positive Lymphoid Malignancies By Cd19-Car Expressing Nk Cells Patented View
18895296 Immune Cells Defective For Suv39h1 Patented View
17741024 Vectors For The Treatment Of Friedreich's Ataxia Patented View
17295588 Methods And Compositions For Treating Osteoarthritis Patented View
17115565 Chimeric Antigen Receptor And Methods Of Use Thereof Patented View
17292343 Gene Therapy Employing Genome Editing With Single Aav Vector Abandoned View
17792713 Preparation Method And System For Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus, And Recombinant Bacmid Patented View
16616099 Use Of The Il-15/il-15ra Complex In The Generation Of Antigen-Specific T Cells For Adoptive Immunotherapy Patented View
17893052 New Oncolytic Virus Platform To Treat Cancers With Myxoma Virus Patented View
17956257 Phagemid Vector Patented View
17659007 Methods And Compositions For Genetically Modifying Lymphocytes To Express Polypeptides Comprising The Intracellular Domain Of Cd79a And Cd79b Patented View
17374147 Recombinant Virus Products And Methods For Inhibition Of Expression Of Myotilin Patented View
18157052 Methods And Compositions For Genomic Integration Patented View
18158173 Enhanced Virus-Like Particles And Methods Of Use Thereof For Delivery To Cells Patented View
17066134 Spherical Nucleic Acid-Based Constructs As Immunostimulatory Agents For Prophylactic And Therapeutic Use Abandoned View
17823186 Humanized Il-4 And Il-4ra Animals Patented View
18068376 Methods And Compositions For Modified Factor Ix Fusion Proteins Patented View
18066175 Methods To Produce Rod-Derived Cone Viability Factor (Rdcvf) Abandoned View
18773146 Composition For Regulating Production Of Proteins Patented View
16767497 Reprogrammed T Cell-Like Nk Cells Patented View
17871383 Methods And Compositions For Generating Pacemaker Cells Abandoned View
17879559 Microorganisms Programmed To Produce Immune Modulators And Anti-Cancer Therapeutics In Tumor Cells Abandoned View
16744296 Method For Utilizing Engineered Dendritic Cells To Induce Gut-Homing Regulatory T Cells And Treat Gut Inflammation Patented View
17862666 Rapid Assay For Detection Of Sars-Cov-2 Antibodies Patented View
17938501 Modified Monocytes/macrophage Expressing Chimeric Antigen Receptors And Uses Thereof Abandoned View
17275832 Methods And Compositions For Treating Cancer Using Mrna Therapeutics Abandoned View

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