Examiner Hou Frank S

1692-HOU-FRANK-S

Employment Information

Art Unit:1692 — Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
Group:1690 — Organometallics & Industrial Chemistry and Carbohydrate Chemistry
Classes: 556 — Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
564 — Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
514 — Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
257 — Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes)
560 — Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
568 — Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
429 — Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process
260 — Chemistry of carbon compounds
518 — Chemistry: fischer-tropsch processes; or purification or recovery of products thereof
548 — Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
Phone:(571) 272-1802
Email:None
Location:None
Title:Pat Examnr Gen Chem
Service:4 years
Grade:GS-12

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

89
3-Year Grant rate: 32% over 34 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 89th

With Examiner Hou, you have a 32% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Hou is a very hard examiner and in the 89th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Hou, 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 1692

Examiner Hou's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 1692 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Hou 1.5
Art Unit 1692 1.3

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