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Examiner Zhong Wayneshaobin

1662-ZHONG-WAYNESHAOBIN

Employment Information

Art Unit:1662 — Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes
Group:1660 — Asexually Reproduced Plant Varieties, Plants cultivars and transgenic plants
Classes: 800 — Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and related processes
435 — Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
119 — Animal husbandry
Phone:(571) 270-0311
Email:wayne.zhong@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr (Biolgy)
Service:12 years
Grade:GS-13

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

65
3-Year Grant rate: 67% over 284 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 65th

With Examiner Zhong, you have a 67% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Zhong is a harder examiner and in the 65th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Zhong, 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 1662

Examiner Zhong's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 1662 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Zhong 1.7
Art Unit 1662 1.2

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Zhong has granted 154 of 227 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 68%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Zhong has granted 36 of 57 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 63%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Zhong, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 7%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17990696 Soybean Variety 01094778 Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
17726884 Protoplast Isolation And Regeneration Of Plants Patented View
18255086 Processes, Systems And Media For Delivering A Substance To A Plant Abandoned View
18306462 Peronospora Resistance In Spinacia Oleracea Abandoned View
18391030 Plants And Seeds Of Hybrid Corn Variety Ch010449 Patented View
18542151 Soybean Cultivar 25280415 Patented View
18401400 Wheat Cultivar 01102455 Patented View
18370805 Soybean Cultivar 22160253 Patented View
18467279 Methods Of Producing Insect Pheromones Abandoned View
18498243 Canola Inbred 4ppvf68a Patented View
18492641 Soybean Cultivar 21430343 Patented View
17498648 Production Of Insect Pheromone Precursors In Plants Abandoned View
18026102 Methods For Producing Transformed Plants Patented View
18370793 Soybean Cultivar 24310512 Patented View
18496072 Pathogen Resistance In Plants Abandoned View
18057190 Transgenic Plants With Increased Photosynthesis Efficiency And Growth Patented View
17806435 Inir12 Transgenic Maize Patented View
17049326 Genome Editing In Plants Abandoned View
19205308 Method And System For Producing, Without The Help Of A Substrate, A Plurality Of Rooted Cuttings From A Plurality Of Unrooted Cuttings Patented View
19050958 Wheat Receptor-Like Protein Kinase Tamlr1 And Use Thereof Patented View
18674674 Lettuce Variety 'asakgreen' Patented View
18586110 Identification Of Resistance Genes From Wild Relatives Of Banana And Their Uses In Controlling Panama Disease Patented View
18945636 Small Peptide Mipep166i And Use Thereof In Plant Tissue Culture Patented View
18300617 Maize Inbred 1psub88 Patented View
18300718 Maize Inbred 1prme66 Patented View
18300662 Maize Inbred 1pprw44 Patented View
18300499 Maize Inbred 1pkds77 Patented View
18300422 Maize Inbred 1pwyj10 Patented View
18167504 Soybean Variety 5pftl81 Patented View
18167248 Soybean Variety 5pwdg21 Patented View
18300409 Maize Inbred 1pvnl56 Patented View
18300461 Maize Inbred 1pgjc85 Patented View
18167199 Soybean Variety 5prnb92 Patented View
18178299 Tomato Plants With Resistance To Mi-1 Resistance-Breaking Root-Knot Nematodes Patented View
18094193 Tomato Hybrid Svth3562 And Parents Thereof Patented View
18300520 Maize Inbred 1pnyy79 Patented View
17807507 Maize Inbred 1psht39 Patented View
17808854 Maize Hybrid X82t295 Patented View
18149057 Wheat Cultivar 01095188 Patented View
18066341 Wheat Variety 6ptlt42b Patented View
18075672 Barley Cultivar Bg Nitro Patented View
17559772 Alfalfa Variety H0416a3126 Patented View
17604211 Methods, Systems And Apparatus For Plant Material Screening And Propagation Patented View
17598366 Flavone 7-O-Methyltransferase Gene And Use For Same Patented View
16959555 Regeneration Of Genetically Modified Plants Patented View
17571428 Methods And Compositions For Rapid Plant Transformation Patented View
16468234 Crispr-Systems For Modifying A Trait Of Interest In A Plant Patented View
18056185 Rice Cultivar Rt22l501 Patented View
18089975 Methods And Compositions For Plant Pathogen Resistance In Plants Patented View
18082625 Rice Cultivar Designated 'addi Jo' Patented View

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