Examiner Hong Stephen S (SPE)

2178-HONG-STEPHEN-S

Employment Information

Art Unit:2178 — 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
382 — Image analysis
Phone:(571) 272-4124
Email:stephen.hong@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Supvy Pat Examnr Compr Engrg
Service:31 years
Grade:GS-15

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

97
3-Year Grant rate: 5% over 20 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 97th

With Examiner Hong (SPE), you have a 5% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Hong (SPE) is an extremely hard examiner and in the 97th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Hong (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 2178

Examiner Hong (SPE)'s grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2178 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Hong (SPE) 1.2
Art Unit 2178 1.8

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