Examiner Bell Kent L

1661-BELL-KENT-L

Employment Information

Art Unit:1661 — Plants
Group:1660 — Asexually Reproduced Plant Varieties, Plants cultivars and transgenic plants
Classes: PLT — Plants
800 — Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes
435 — Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
426 — Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
427 — Coating processes
Phone:(571) 272-0973
Email:kent.bell@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Biolgy
Service:30 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

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3-Year Grant rate: 98% over 1196 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Easy
Difficulty Percentile: 2nd

With Examiner Bell, you have a 98% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Bell is an extremely easy examiner and in the 2nd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Bell, 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 1661

Examiner Bell's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 1661 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Bell 0.5
Art Unit 1661 0.5

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Bell has granted 1172 of 1193 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 98%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Bell has granted 2 of 3 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 67%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Bell, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 32%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17678685 Compositions And Methods For Pollen Storage Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
16770903 Method For Improving Seed Germination And/or Plant Tolerance To Environmental Stress Patented View
18831924 Heliopsis Plant Named 'sunny Disposition' Patented View
18921762 Apple Tree Named 'maia-Rz' Patented View
19315583 Anthurium Plant Named 'an2244532' Patented View
18831113 Strawberry Plant Named 'mc18 20' Abandoned View
19310785 Rosa Plant Named 'gen R273' Patented View
19314145 Euphorbia Plant Named 'miner's Berry Bordeaux' Patented View
19310827 Phalaenopsis Plant Named 'florichrome' Patented View
19048520 Buddleja Plant Named 'sff22-062' Patented View
18778114 Campanula Plant Named 'klecn23085' Patented View
19313576 Mandevilla Plant Named 'tvmd944' Patented View
19316641 Epipremnum Plant Named 'eth' Patented View
18831469 Cherry Tree Named 'fe' Patented View
18831576 Anemone Plant Named 'macane001.2' Patented View
19255767 Cornus Plant Named 'elsie Red' Patented View
19188617 Dianthus Plant Named 'kledp25525' Patented View
18831815 Interspecific Tree Named 'flavor Chief' Patented View
19264410 Sedum Plant Named 'love's Fire' Patented View
18974440 Methods Of Seed Breeding Using High Throughput Nondestructive Seed Sampling Abandoned View
19264077 Paeonia Plant Named 'smithopus4' Patented View
18416594 Cultivation Systems And Methods For Improvement Of Plant Bast Fibers Patented View
18464388 Method For Increasing Plant Yield Patented View
17803616 Rose Plant Named 'poulpah111' Patented View
19264534 Osteospermum Plant Named 'kleoe24785' Patented View
19261869 Petunia Plant Named 'inpetboaux' Patented View
19246753 Lantana Plant Named 'lanz0048' Patented View
19259523 Blueberry Plant Named 'fv2401' Patented View
18985035 Corylus Plant Named 'stapn7-6' Patented View
19245279 Berberis Plant Named 'ncbt4' Patented View
19247548 Petunia Plant Named 'kleph24698' Patented View
19260362 Petunia Plant Named 'kleph24734' Patented View
19245277 Berberis Plant Named 'ncbx3' Patented View
18831389 Pycnanthemum Incanum Plant Named 'smokey Mountain Mint' Patented View
19022462 Floribunda Rose Plant Named 'alttiger' Patented View
19195755 Hop Plant Named 'nzh-2077' Patented View
18831364 Aloe Plant Named 'amial2202' Patented View
19031792 Poinsettia Plant Named 'doeupfayul' Patented View
19039956 Rubus Plant Named 'bwprasp03' Patented View
19054459 Alstroemeria Plant Named 'turcal209' Patented View
18831327 Aloe Plant Named 'amial2139' Patented View
19022447 Agapanthus Plant Named 'altsilverado' Patented View
19054474 Alstroemeria Plant Named 'turcal211' Patented View
18831789 Allium Plant Named 'all The Buzz' Patented View
18789116 Petunia Plant Named 'kleph23557' Patented View
19001003 Strawberry Plant Named 'hob-391' Patented View
19303050 Plum Tree Named 'suplum65' Patented View
18668286 Ilex Plant Named 'rox' Patented View
19210855 Rosa Plant Named 'esm R896' Patented View
18955736 Leucothoe Plant Named 'blle01' Patented View

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