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| Art Unit: | 2432 — Information security |
|---|---|
| Group: | 2400a-2430-2490 — Cryptography and Security |
| Classes: |
726 — Information security 713 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support 380 — Cryptography 370 — Multiplex communications 705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination |
| Phone: | (469) 295-9235 |
| Email: | jeffrey.nickerson@uspto.gov |
| Location: | TX 75202 |
| Title: | Supvy Pat Examnr Compr Engrg |
| Service: | 19 years |
| Grade: | GS-15 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 10% over 10 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Extremely Hard |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 96th
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With Examiner Nickerson (SPE), you have a 10% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Nickerson (SPE) is an extremely hard examiner and in the 96th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Nickerson (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.
Examiner Nickerson (SPE)'s grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2432 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Nickerson (SPE) | 1.5 |
| Art Unit 2432 | 1.4 |
Examiner Nickerson (SPE) has granted 1 of 7 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 14%.
Examiner Nickerson (SPE) has granted 0 of 3 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 0%.
With Examiner Nickerson (SPE), conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 100%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18105386 | Method And Apparatus For Device Identifier Composition Engine Certificate-Based Security And Out-Of-Band Temporary Key Generation For Bluetooth Pairing | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Patented | View |
| 17837424 | Method And System For Communicating Over Overlay Networks | Abandoned | View | |
| 17805568 | Method For Defending Against Fuzzing Analysis Of A Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 17746211 | Modular Secure Remote Work Platform | Abandoned | View | |
| 17760521 | Virtual Primary Platform (Vpp) Implemented On A Secure Element And An External Environment | Abandoned | View | |
| 16759037 | Location Based Authentication | Abandoned | View | |
| 15045205 | System And Method For Network Policy Simulation | Abandoned | View | |
| 16319687 | Method And Device For File Encryption And Decryption | Abandoned | View | |
| 16155466 | Method And Apparatus For Transmitting A Message Sequence Over A Data Bus And Method And Apparatus For Detecting An Attack On A Message Sequence Thus Transmitted | Patented | View | |
| 16368922 | Method And Apparatus For Implementing A White-Box Cipher | Abandoned | View | |
| 16445446 | Data Detection And Protection Policies For Electronic File Systems | Abandoned | View | |
| 15865994 | Managing A Set Of Cryptographic Keys In An Encrypted System | Abandoned | View | |
| 15944103 | End-To-End Secured Communication For Mobile Sensor In An Iot Network | Abandoned | View | |
| 15107112 | Method And Device For Detecting Autonomous, Self-Propagating Software | Abandoned | View | |
| 15184596 | Sensitive Operation Verification Method, Apparatus, And System | Abandoned | View |
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