Examiner Leong Susan D (SPE)

1754-LEONG-SUSAN-D

Employment Information

Art Unit:1754 — Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
Group:1740 — Tires, Adhesive Bonding, Glass/Paper making, Plastics Shaping & Molding
Classes: 136 — Batteries: thermoelectric and photoelectric
204 — Chemistry: electrical and wave energy
264 — Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
429 — Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process
205 — Electrolysis: processes, compositions used therein, and methods of preparing the compositions
425 — Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus
428 — Stock material or miscellaneous articles
526 — Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series
Phone:(571) 270-1487
Email:susan.leong@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Supvy Pat Examnr Cheml Engrg
Service:17 years
Grade:GS-15

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

49
3-Year Grant rate: 77% over 167 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 49th

With Examiner Leong (SPE), you have a 77% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Leong (SPE) is a medium examiner and in the 49th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Leong (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 1754

Examiner Leong (SPE)'s grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 1754 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Leong (SPE) 0.9
Art Unit 1754 2.1

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Leong (SPE) has granted 103 of 138 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 75%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Leong (SPE) has granted 25 of 29 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 86%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Leong (SPE), conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 15%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17533318 Method For Forming A Stick For Lips, A Machine For Forming Sticks For Lips, And A Product For Lips Made Using This Method Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18104274 Cell Busbar Fuse With Direct Cooling Abandoned View
18193465 Cooling Apparatus And Method For Cooling A Continuous Strip Abandoned View
17882751 Polymeric Material Extrusion Nozzle And Print Head For Additive Manufacturing Comprising Such Extrusion Nozzle Patented View
17086771 Battery System Patented View
17045282 Battery Patented View
17877283 Imprint Apparatus, Manufacturing Method For Article, And Computer Program Patented View
18236103 System And Method For Deploying, Harvesting, And In-Situ Three-Dimensional Printing Of Structures In An Extraterrestrial Environment Abandoned View
18080788 Power Supply System And Connection Structure Between Connection Terminal And Busbar Patented View
17275240 Dough Strip Shaping Member Having A Cutting Device Abandoned View
17633471 Embryonic Microsphere Preparation Method And Preparation Mechanism, Microsphere Preparation Method And Preparation Apparatus Abandoned View
17641915 Thermoplastic Polymer Particles And Method For Preparing Same Abandoned View
17641900 Thermoplastic Polymer Particles And Method For Manufacturing Same Abandoned View
16965828 Method And Apparatus Abandoned View
17292781 Method And Apparatus For Forming A Material Batch For An End Product Abandoned View
18316216 Printing A Chemical Mechanical Polishing Pad Patented View
17311719 Dry Pelletizing Process By High Impact And Compression Abandoned View
18184369 System And Method For Manufacturing Particle Board From Waste-Wood Powders And Its Composition Thereof Abandoned View
16938980 Clog Resistant Print Head Method For High Speed Cementitious Material 3d Printing Abandoned View
17040610 Airflow Adjustment Abandoned View
16476712 Optical Shaping Ink Set, Optically Shaped Article, And Method For Producing Optically Shaped Article Abandoned View
16143500 Lithium-Sulfur Battery Patented View
15108126 Aromatic Amine Compound, Light-Emitting Element Materials And Light-Emitting Element Patented View
15111744 Cassettes For Use In Automated Parallel Electrophoretic Assays And Methods For Manufacturing And Using Same Patented View
15551622 Flexible Solar Cell Abandoned View
16153277 Radially Stacked Solar Cells Based On 2d Atomic Crystals And Methods For Their Production Patented View
16158980 Thermoelectric Conversion Module Package Patented View
15173878 Window Insulating And Power Generation System Patented View
16264648 Bi-Facial Photovoltaic Power Generation Module Patented View
16099623 Organic Dye With Improved Efficiency And Uses Thereof In Photovoltaic Cells Patented View
15548378 Refrigerant Analyzer And A Method Of Using The Same Patented View
15843257 Method For Manufacturing A Photovoltaic Module And Photovoltaic Module Thus Obtained Patented View
15669207 Basecalling For Stochastic Sequencing Processes Patented View
16102730 Conductive Film, Photovoltaic Cell Unit, And Photovoltaic Cell Module Abandoned View
16339665 Polymer And Organic Solar Cell Comprising Same Patented View
16146354 Solar Cell Module Patented View
15251215 Electrochemical Sensors For Cell Culture Monitoring Patented View
16055854 Solar Cell Panel And Method For Manufacturing The Same Patented View
16150602 Method For Manufacturing Separator For Fuel Cell Patented View
15566469 Thermoelectric Materials, And Thermoelectric Element And Thermoelectric Module Comprising The Same Patented View
15129335 Electrophoresis Separation Method Patented View
16041485 Methods And Systems For Solar Panel With Pivoting Side Supports Patented View
15661931 Tunnel Junctions In Microfluidic Arrays For Molecular Recognition Patented View
16091598 Gap Between Semiconductors Patented View
16004562 Shingled Array Solar Cells And Method Of Manufacturing Solar Modules Including The Same Patented View
15449032 Thermoelectric Conversion Element, Thermoelectric Conversion Module, Method For Manufacturing Thermoelectric Conversion Element, And Method For Manufacturing Thermoelectric Conversion Module Patented View
15427152 Power Source And Method Of Forming Same Patented View
16199748 Solar Cell Patented View
16121269 Solar Cell, Manufacturing Method Therefor, Semiconductor Device, And Manufacturing Method Therefor Patented View
15117830 High-Efficiency Photoelectric Element And Method For Manufacturing Same Patented View

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