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
705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
712 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing architectures and instruction processing (e.g., processors)
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 182 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 1.0
Art Unit 2151 1.4

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Wathen has granted 131 of 140 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 94%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Wathen has granted 41 of 42 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 98%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Wathen, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 4%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17847414 Asset Analysis Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Abandoned View
17934847 Prediction Of Steady State Heat Maps For Chip Thermal Analysis Patented View
17581240 Model-Based Systems Engineering Tool Utilizing Impact Analysis Patented View
17728140 Quantum Computer And Quantum State Simulation Method Using Same Patented View
18620578 Embedded Applications Patented View
17939274 Automatically Generating A Translation Engine For Facilitating Remote Procedure Calls Between A Client Program And A Server Program Patented View
17831061 Medical Therapy Systems With State-Space Defined Constraints, And Methods Of Making And Using The Same Abandoned View
17960259 Leader Election For Groups Of Applications Patented View
17818795 Large-Scale Testing And Simulation Abandoned View
17744168 Methods And Systems For Quantitative Assessment Of Flood Resiliency Abandoned View
17781785 Design Method For Six-Pole Hybrid Magnetic Bearing With Symmetrical Suspension Forces Abandoned View
18425152 Multiplatform Microservice Connection Techniques Patented View
17825997 System And Methods For Input/output Device Emulation Patented View
17776081 Material Design System And Material Design Method Abandoned View
17947274 Ring Architecture-Based Workload Distribution In A Microservice Computing Environment Patented View
18159720 Selective Invocation Of Rpa Workflows Via Api Calls Patented View
17694090 Fault-Tolerant No Code Workflows Patented View
19094046 Integrating Extensions And Customizations On Blockchain Wallets Patented View
17809075 3-Tier Quantum Computing Execution Model Patented View
17580155 Analysis Method, Analysis Device, And Program Abandoned View
17251330 System Of Designing Seismic Isolation Mount For Protecting Electrical Equipment Comprising Switchboard And Control Panel Abandoned View
18763661 Inline Categorizing Of Events Patented View
17844831 System And Method For Validating A Power Cycle For An Emulated Pcie Based Storage Device Patented View
17578672 Method And System For Carrying Out A Simulation Patented View
17572385 Application Programming Interface To Control Execution Of Graph Nodes Patented View
17359530 Network Interface Device Management Of Service Execution Failover Patented View
17560881 Initiator-Side Offload For Scale-Out Storage Patented View
17579460 Systems And Methods Of Phase And Polarization Singularity Engineering Abandoned View
17749021 Scheduler Incorporating Thermal Awareness Patented View
17893957 Containerized Application Management Patented View
17931736 Multi-Station Decision Network Patented View
17580573 Systems And Methods For Design Validation Patented View
17586793 Life Cycle Management Of Run Time Services In Edge Computing Environment Patented View
17814638 Method And System For Consistent Api Application To Heterogeneous Bare Metal Servers Patented View
17983094 Systems And Methods For Processing Electronic Requests Patented View
18159707 Selective Invocation Of Rpa Workflows Via Api Calls Patented View
17972649 Technology And Protocol Agnostic Key-Value Pair Based User Interface And Data Rendering To Support A Transaction Patented View
17877766 Orchestration Of Operations On A Cloud Platform Based On Multiple Version Maps Of Services Patented View
17829089 Cross Service Lock Handling Patented View
18732618 Software Orchestration Framework For Implementing Application Programming Interfaces Patented View
17737463 Workload Data Transfer System And Method Patented View
17806416 Accessing Service Application Components Across Multiple Devices Patented View
18048034 Audio Notifications Patented View
17885108 User Pairing And Triggering Activities Using Event Data Patented View
18665141 Flexible And Scalable Artificial Intelligence And Analytics Platform With Flexible Content Storage And Retrieval Patented View
17962424 Task Execution Optimization To Reduce Computing Or Energy Resource Use Patented View
17662228 Systems And Methods For Data Storage And Computing Patented View
17836042 Adaptive Application Server Request Balancing Patented View
18369471 Validating Policies And Data In Api Authorization System Patented View
17806812 Automated Generation Of Application Programming Interfaces For Microservices Patented View

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