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| Art Unit: | 1674 — Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions |
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| Group: | 1670 — Virology, Viral Immunology, And Viral Pathogens, Neurology, Receptors, Cytokines & Recombinant Hormones and Immunoassays and related devices |
| Classes: |
424 — Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 530 — Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins; lignins or reaction products thereof 514 — Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions 435 — Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology 536 — Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series 436 — Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing 506 — Combinatorial chemistry technology: method, library, apparatus 702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing 345 — Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems |
| Phone: | (571) 272-0876 |
| Email: | prema.mertz@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Gen Chem |
| Service: | 31 years |
| Grade: | GS-15 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 73% over 479 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 57th
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With Examiner Mertz, you have a 73% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Mertz is a medium examiner and in the 57th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Mertz, 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.
Examiner Mertz's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 1674 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
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| Examiner Mertz | 0.7 |
| Art Unit 1674 | 1.3 |
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