Examiner Rieth Stephen E

1759-RIETH-STEPHEN-E

Employment Information

Art Unit:1759 — Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process
Group:1700 Search — Search and Classification
Classes: 521 — Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series
524 — Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series
516 — Colloid systems and wetting agents; subcombinations thereof; processes of
428 — Stock material or miscellaneous articles
525 — Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series
526 — Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series
568 — Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
435 — Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
528 — Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 series
347 — Incremental printing of symbolic information
Phone:(571) 272-6274
Email:stephen.rieth@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr
Service:14 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

86
3-Year Grant rate: 40% over 314 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 86th

With Examiner Rieth, you have a 40% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Rieth is a very hard examiner and in the 86th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Rieth, 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 1759

Examiner Rieth's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 1759 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Rieth 2.2
Art Unit 1759 1.4

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