Examiner Walker Keith D (SPE)

1735-WALKER-KEITH-D

Employment Information

Art Unit:1735 — Metal fusion bonding
Group:1730 — Metallurgy, Metal Working, Inorganic Chemistry, Catalyst, Electrophotography, Photolithography
Classes: 148 — Metal treatment
419 — Powder metallurgy processes
429 — Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process
420 — Alloys or metallic compositions
502 — Catalyst, solid sorbent, or support therefor: product or process of making
228 — Metal fusion bonding
164 — Metal founding
423 — Chemistry of inorganic compounds
536 — Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
425 — Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus
Phone:(571) 272-3458
Email:keith.walker@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Supvy Pat Examnr Physics
Service:22 years
Grade:GS-15

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

97
3-Year Grant rate: 5% over 86 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 97th

With Examiner Walker (SPE), you have a 5% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Walker (SPE) is an extremely hard examiner and in the 97th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Walker (SPE), 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 1735

Examiner Walker (SPE)'s grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 1735 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Walker (SPE) 4.0
Art Unit 1735 1.4

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