Examiner Nickerson Jeffrey L (SPE)

2432-NICKERSON-JEFFREY-L

Employment Information

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

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

96
3-Year Grant rate: 10% over 10 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 96th

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).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

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.

Comparison with Art Unit 2432

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

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Nickerson (SPE) has granted 1 of 7 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 14%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Nickerson (SPE) has granted 0 of 3 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 0%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Nickerson (SPE), conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 100%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

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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