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Examiner Lin Sherman L

2447-LIN-SHERMAN-L

Employment Information

Art Unit:2447 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring
Group:2440-2450 — Computer Networks
Classes: 709 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring
726 — Information security
713 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
380 — Cryptography
714 — Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
Phone:(571) 270-7446
Email:sherman.lin@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:18 years
Grade:GS-12

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

94
3-Year Grant rate: 16% over 61 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 94th

With Examiner Lin, you have a 16% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Lin is an extremely hard examiner and in the 94th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Lin, 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 2447

Examiner Lin's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2447 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Lin 3.7
Art Unit 2447 1.5

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Lin has granted 5 of 31 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 16%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Lin has granted 5 of 30 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 17%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Lin, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 6%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17918507 Techniques For Management Data Analytics (Mda) Process And Service Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Abandoned View
17113256 Browserless Testing Abandoned View
16834802 Unauthorized Participant Exclusion From Online Meeting Abandoned View
17854863 Transmission Of Messages In Computer Networked Environments Abandoned View
17768831 Quic Transport Protocol-Based Communication Method And System Patented View
16822077 Discovery And Configuration Of Iot Devices Patented View
18107656 Micro-Forum Network Abandoned View
16587441 Content Item Sharing With Context Abandoned View
17450478 Resource Charging Method, Mec Management System, And Mec Host Abandoned View
17568818 Smart Content Redirection System Abandoned View
17869650 Webpage Redirect Based On User Information Abandoned View
17377810 Image Processing Apparatus, Control Method, And Medium Abandoned View
18117456 Method Of Detect An Email Phishing Attempt Or Fraudulent Email Within An Email Domain Abandoned View
17724089 Dynamic Storage In Cloud Storage Synchronization Abandoned View
17959161 Multi-Threaded Protocol-Agnostic Proactor Facade For Http/2 Server Implementations Abandoned View
18155022 System And Method For Web Components Interaction And Data Updating Abandoned View
17003274 System And Method For Estimating Workload Per Email Abandoned View
17498605 Session Data Processing Method And Apparatus, User Terminal, And Storage Medium Abandoned View
18463189 Resource Command Messages And Methods Abandoned View
16778783 Extraction Of Data From Secure Data Sources To A Multi-Tenant Cloud System Abandoned View
17130722 Simulation State To Detect Transient Execution Attack Abandoned View
16778754 Virtual Machine Migration In Cloud Infrastructure Networks Patented View
16818772 Methods And Systems For Content Distribution Patented View
17452132 Network State Management Abandoned View
16652488 Data Communication Apparatus, Communication System, Data Communication Method, And Program Abandoned View
17841135 Optimizing Data Storage Across Multiple Content Repositories Abandoned View
17392444 Read-Only Caching Network File System Abandoned View
16648386 Scheduling Of Data Traffic Patented View
16587325 Digital Assistant Utilization In A Virtual Environment Patented View
17573873 Technology Notification System Abandoned View
16530898 Committed Processing Rates For Shared Resources Patented View
16432764 Propagating Ordered Object Changes Abandoned View
16689364 Communication Management Abandoned View
17693591 Peer To Peer Remote Application Discovery Patented View
16820469 Cloud Controller Providing Architecture-Based Installations Abandoned View
16777515 Discovery And Configuration In Computer Networks Patented View
18104264 Resource Command Messages And Methods Patented View
17741682 Switching Mechanism For Primary Device Management Solution Abandoned View
16729847 Electronic Registered Mail Methods, Apparatus, And System Abandoned View
16587370 Generating Configuration Templates For Application Delivery Control Abandoned View
16776972 System For Processing User Data And Controlling Method Thereof Abandoned View
15608264 On Demand Data Volume Provisioning Abandoned View
16819370 Data Transmission Scheduling Method And System Abandoned View
16818762 Method, Server And System For Resolving Domain Name Abandoned View
16648657 Method, Electronic Device And Computer Storage Medium For Pushing Information Abandoned View
15636551 Apparatus And Method For Correlating Network Traffic On Opposite Sides Of A Network Address Translator Abandoned View
15271199 Dynamic Storage Management In Cloud Storage Synchronization Patented View
15700173 Determining Client System Attributes Patented View
15957753 Information Pushing Method And Apparatus Patented View
15954948 Methods And Systems For Controlling Data Backup Patented View

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