Examiner Osterhout Benjamin L

1711-OSTERHOUT-BENJAMIN-L

Employment Information

Art Unit:1711 — Cleaning and liquid contact with solids
Group:1710 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
Classes: 134 — Cleaning and liquid contact with solids
118 — Coating apparatus
312 — Supports: cabinet structure
438 — Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
264 — Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
180 — Motor vehicles
226 — Advancing material of indeterminate length
156 — Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
222 — Dispensing
Phone:(571) 270-7379
Email:benjamin.osterhout@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:18 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

16
3-Year Grant rate: 91% over 429 cases
Difficulty: Very Easy
Difficulty Percentile: 16th

With Examiner Osterhout, you have a 91% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Osterhout is a very easy examiner and in the 16th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Osterhout, 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 1711

Examiner Osterhout's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 1711 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Osterhout 1.1
Art Unit 1711 1.3

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