Examiner Wathen Brian W

2151-WATHEN-BRIAN-W

Employment Information

Art Unit:2151 — Electrical computers: arithmetic processing and calculating
Group:2100 Search — Search and Classification
Classes: 719 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc)
703 — Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation
718 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control
707 — Data processing: database and file management or data structures
726 — Information security
712 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing architectures and instruction processing (e.g., processors)
705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
709 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring
380 — Cryptography
715 — Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing
Phone:(571) 270-5570
Email:brian.wathen@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr
Service:17 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

5
3-Year Grant rate: 95% over 194 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Easy
Difficulty Percentile: 5th

With Examiner Wathen, you have a 95% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Wathen is an extremely easy examiner and in the 5th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Wathen, 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 2151

Examiner Wathen's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 2151 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Wathen 0.9
Art Unit 2151 1.4

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