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| Art Unit: | 2634 — Optical communications |
|---|---|
| Group: | 2630 — Digital and Optical Communications |
| Classes: |
398 — Optical communications 359 — Optical: systems and elements 250 — Radiant energy 356 — Optics: measuring and testing 718 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 380 — Cryptography 375 — Pulse or digital communications |
| Phone: | (571) 270-3378 |
| Email: | darren.wolf@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg |
| Service: | 16 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 95% over 379 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Extremely Easy |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 6th
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With Examiner Wolf, you have a 95% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Wolf is an extremely easy examiner and in the 6th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Wolf, 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 Wolf's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 2634 and higher than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Wolf | 1.0 |
| Art Unit 2634 | 0.9 |
Examiner Wolf has granted 278 of 298 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 93%.
Examiner Wolf has granted 81 of 81 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 100%.
With Examiner Wolf, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 8%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18234304 | Phase Stable Signal Generator And Signal Distribution System | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Patented | View |
| 18488709 | Field Programmable Optical Filter | Patented | View | |
| 18448586 | Electronic Devices With High Frequency Polarization Optimization | Patented | View | |
| 18189114 | User-Selectable Optical Interface | Patented | View | |
| 18330123 | Reversed Fiber Detection And Correction In Optical Transceivers | Patented | View | |
| 18272952 | Connection State Identification System And Connection State Identification Method | Patented | View | |
| 18037526 | Optical Transmission System, Optical Receiver, Optical Transmitter, Control Method And Program | Patented | View | |
| 18313868 | Method And Apparatus For Performing Spread Spectrum Optical Spectroscopy | Patented | View | |
| 18510021 | Optical Communication Device That Transmits Wdm Signal And Transmission Control Method | Patented | View | |
| 18353224 | Optical Transmitter That Transmits Multi-Level Signal | Patented | View | |
| 17676542 | Ring Modulator Baseline Wander Compensation | Patented | View | |
| 18447288 | Optical Link Power Profile Estimation | Patented | View | |
| 18370199 | Network Node For A Coherent Optical Wdm Transmission Network | Patented | View | |
| 18483818 | All-Optical Phase-Preserving Signal Amplitude Processors | Patented | View | |
| 18276175 | Communication Device And Communication Device Configuration Method | Patented | View | |
| 18276249 | Communication Methods, Transmitters / Receivers, Repeaters, Communication Systems And Programs | Abandoned | View | |
| 18037051 | Optical Communication Device, Optical Access System And Optical Communication Method | Patented | View | |
| 18678356 | High Speed Bidirectional Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer (Otdr)-Based Testing Of Device Under Test | Patented | View | |
| 18546901 | Optical Transmission System And Optical Transmission Method | Patented | View | |
| 18615008 | Aberration Correction Of Optical Phased Arrays | Patented | View | |
| 18739677 | Phased-Array Radio Frequency Receiver | Patented | View | |
| 18348551 | Photonic Machine Learning Based Signal Recovery In Self-Coherent Detectors | Patented | View | |
| 18224760 | Signal Detection And Information Conveyance Over Optical Fiber | Patented | View | |
| 18039425 | Optical Communication Device And Optical Communication Method | Patented | View | |
| 18343710 | Optical Module, Processing Component, Plug Component, System, And Method | Patented | View | |
| 18351321 | Routing Methods For Quantum Communication Paths Across A Mesh Quantum Network | Patented | View | |
| 18276985 | Optical Receiving Apparatus And Frequency Offset Compensation Method | Patented | View | |
| 18189212 | Optical Signal Transmitting Device, Optical Signal Receiving Device, And Optical Signal Transmission System | Patented | View | |
| 18440933 | Electrical Duobinary Soft Information Receiver For Nrz Modulation Fiber Transmission | Patented | View | |
| 18299166 | Laser Chip, Injection-Locked Laser, And Network Device | Patented | View | |
| 18491572 | Receiver Optical Sub-Assembly, Bi-Directional Optical Sub-Assembly, Optical Module, And Optical Network Device | Patented | View | |
| 18562036 | Photonic Rf Signal Generation Apparatus, Network Units And Method | Patented | View | |
| 18348603 | Quantum Repeater For Optical Network And Method | Patented | View | |
| 18311080 | Apparatus And Method For Measuring Nonlinear System Noises | Patented | View | |
| 18125930 | Tunable Optical Add/drop Multiplexer | Patented | View | |
| 17694021 | Gain And Target Amplitude Tuning In A Receiver | Patented | View | |
| 18258168 | Direct Detection Of Modulated Coherent Optical Signals By Means Of A Structure Exhibiting Fano Resonance | Patented | View | |
| 18675378 | System For Pulsed Laser Optical Data Transmission With Receiver Recoverable Clock | Patented | View | |
| 18096503 | Optimal Equalization Partitioning | Patented | View | |
| 18424600 | Optimal Equalization Partitioning With Automatic Gain Adjustment | Patented | View | |
| 18464591 | Shutdown Circuitry For A Laser Emitter | Patented | View | |
| 18036015 | Optical Power Supply System, Power Receiving Side Optical Communication Device And Power Supply Method | Patented | View | |
| 18497337 | Optical Wireless Communication System And Method | Patented | View | |
| 18012118 | Method And Apparatus For Downlink Multi-User With Dft-S-Ofdm Waveform | Patented | View | |
| 18343815 | Method, System, And Apparatus For Packet Transmission | Patented | View | |
| 18174766 | Optical Transmitter For A Quantum Key Distribution System | Patented | View | |
| 18102923 | Optical Modulator Control System For Interconnect Transceivers | Patented | View | |
| 17373533 | Proximity Sensor Based Communications Interface For Electronic Devices | Patented | View | |
| 18046380 | Feedback Mechanism For A Laser Based Optical Wireless Communications System | Patented | View | |
| 18173186 | Power Adjustment Of A Communication Link Based On State Disturbance Estimations | Patented | View |
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