Examiner Pontius James M

2488-PONTIUS-JAMES-M

Employment Information

Art Unit:2488 — Television
Group:2480 — Recording and Compression
Classes: 348 — Television
375 — Pulse or digital communications
701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
359 — Optical: systems and elements
351 — Optics: eye examining, vision testing and correcting
280 — Land vehicles
382 — Image analysis
600 — Surgery
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
345 — Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems
Phone:(571) 270-7687
Email:james.pontius@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:18 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

12
3-Year Grant rate: 92% over 301 cases
Difficulty: Very Easy
Difficulty Percentile: 12th

With Examiner Pontius, you have a 92% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Pontius is a very easy examiner and in the 12th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Pontius, 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 2488

Examiner Pontius's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 2488 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Pontius 0.9
Art Unit 2488 1.2

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