Examiner Wolf Darren E

2634-WOLF-DARREN-E

Employment Information

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

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

6
3-Year Grant rate: 95% over 379 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Easy
Difficulty Percentile: 6th

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).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

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.

Comparison with Art Unit 2634

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

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Wolf has granted 278 of 298 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 93%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Wolf has granted 81 of 81 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 100%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Wolf, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 8%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

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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