Examiner Sifford Jeffrey M

1671-SIFFORD-JEFFREY-M

Employment Information

Art Unit:1671 — Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Group:1670 — Virology, Viral Immunology, And Viral Pathogens, Neurology, Receptors, Cytokines & Recombinant Hormones and Immunoassays and related devices
Classes: 435 — Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
424 — Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
530 — Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof
Phone:(571) 272-7289
Email:None
Location:None
Title:Pat Examnr (Biolgy)
Service:4 years
Grade:GS-11

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

93
3-Year Grant rate: 20% over 41 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 93rd

With Examiner Sifford, you have a 20% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Sifford is an extremely hard examiner and in the 93rd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Sifford, 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 1671

Examiner Sifford's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 1671 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Sifford 1.5
Art Unit 1671 1.3

Interview Benefit

Purchase Subscription

Subscribe to Premium Examiner Statistics for unlimited access to our examiner statistics.

Recent Dispositions

Purchase Subscription

Subscribe to Premium Examiner Statistics for unlimited access to our examiner statistics.

Appeals Statistics

Purchase Subscription

Subscribe to Premium Examiner Statistics for unlimited access to our examiner statistics.

Appeal History

Purchase Subscription

Subscribe to Premium Examiner Statistics for unlimited access to our examiner statistics.

Disclaimer: We do not provide any guarantees as to the accuracy of the statistics presented above and under
no circumstances will we be liable for any outcome resulting from your reliance on the above statistics.

Loading...