Examiner Gates Bradford M

1713-GATES-BRADFORD-M

Employment Information

Art Unit:1713 — Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
Group:1710 — Coating, Etching, Cleaning, Single Crystal Growth
Classes: 427 — Coating processes
216 — Etching a substrate: processes
438 — Semiconductor device manufacturing: process
428 — Stock material or miscellaneous articles
148 — Metal treatment
327 — Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems
118 — Coating apparatus
220 — Receptacles
149 — Explosive and thermic compositions or charges
252 — Compositions
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Title:Pat Examnr Cheml Engrg
Service:16 years
Grade:GS-13

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

42
3-Year Grant rate: 81% over 286 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 42nd

With Examiner Gates, you have a 81% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Gates is a medium examiner and in the 42nd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Gates, 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 1713

Examiner Gates's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 1713 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Gates 1.5
Art Unit 1713 1.6

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