Examiner Sharpless Samuel

2165-SHARPLESS-SAMUEL

Employment Information

Art Unit:2165 — Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Group:2150-2160 — Data Bases & File Management
Classes: 707 — Data processing: database and file management or data structures
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
726 — Information security
Phone:(571) 272-1521
Email:samuel.sharpless@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:7 years
Grade:GS-13

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

46
3-Year Grant rate: 79% over 72 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 46th

With Examiner Sharpless, you have a 79% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Sharpless is a medium examiner and in the 46th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Sharpless, 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 2165

Examiner Sharpless's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2165 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Sharpless 2.8
Art Unit 2165 1.6

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