Examiner Smith Benjamin J

2172-SMITH-BENJAMIN-J

Employment Information

Art Unit:2172 — Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing
Group:2170 — GUI, Document Processing, Power and Other
Classes: 715 — Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing
704 — Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression
382 — Image analysis
705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
707 — Data processing: database and file management or data structures
709 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring
714 — Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
434 — Education and demonstration
Phone:(571) 270-3825
Email:benjamin.smith@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Computer Science
Service:19 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

62
3-Year Grant rate: 69% over 162 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 62nd

With Examiner Smith, you have a 69% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Smith is a harder examiner and in the 62nd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Smith, 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 2172

Examiner Smith's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2172 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Smith 2.6
Art Unit 2172 1.8

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