Examiner Sams Matthew C

2646-SAMS-MATTHEW-C

Employment Information

Art Unit:2646 — Telecommunications
Group:2640 — Telecommunications: Analog Radio Telephone; Satellite and Power Control; Transceivers, Measuring and Testing; Bluetooth; Receivers and Transmitters; Equipment Details
Classes: 455 — Telecommunications
370 — Multiplex communications
606 — Surgery
701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
709 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring
705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
Phone:(571) 272-8099
Email:matthew.sams@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:22 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

53
3-Year Grant rate: 75% over 282 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 53rd

With Examiner Sams, you have a 75% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Sams is a medium examiner and in the 53rd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Sams, 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 2646

Examiner Sams's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2646 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Sams 1.9
Art Unit 2646 1.2

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Sams has granted 144 of 188 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 77%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Sams has granted 68 of 94 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 72%.

Interview Benefit

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

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17508389 Systems And Methods For Proxying Real Traffic For Simulation Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18480796 Domain Proxy Channel Reallocation Feature Abandoned View
17419425 Method And Device For Handling Subscription To A Service In A Communications Network Abandoned View
17890137 Reduced Beam For Paging Patented View
18258478 Managing A Network Slice Parameter For Admission Control Patented View
17894544 System And Method Of Capturing, Tracking, Composing, Analyzing And Automating Analog And Digital Interactions Patented View
19291678 Method And Apparatus Of Handling Of Scheduling Request Triggered By Sl-Prs (Sidelink Positioning Reference Signal) Resource Request In A Wireless Communication System Patented View
18314001 Configurable Options For Device Registration In Wireless Communication Networks Patented View
17517500 Systems And Methods To Optimize Registration And Session Establishment In A Wireless Network Patented View
16852178 Systems, Devices, And Methods For Handling Wireless Communications In An Analyte Monitoring Environment Patented View
17740445 Allowed Network Slice Determination Based On Ue Historical Behavior Patented View
18134753 Cellular Network System Configuration Abandoned View
17915070 Station Placement Support Method, Station Placement Support Apparatus And Station Placement Support Program Abandoned View
18218603 Evaluation Method And Information Processing Apparatus Abandoned View
17867969 Method And System For Determining Hinge Angle Patented View
18996393 Method And Device For The Automatic Redeployment Of The Geographical Coverage Of A Wireless Telecommunications Network Abandoned View
17890930 Session Management Function (Smf) Outage Protection In A Wireless Communication Network Patented View
18018590 Privacy Of Relay Selection In Cellular Sliced Networks Patented View
18765005 Application Interaction For Network Slicing Patented View
19247329 Method For Managing Coverage And Interference Of Internet Of Drones (Iod) Patented View
18509579 Method And Device For Performing Registration In Network In Wireless Communication System Patented View
17912043 Device, A Server And A System For Detecting Items Or Persons Coming Into Proximity Of One Another Abandoned View
17298433 Controlling An Operation Mode Of A Communications Network Abandoned View
18661055 Systems And Methods For Distributing Sd-Wan Policies Patented View
17918695 Method For Geolocating Interference Source In Communication-Based Transport System Patented View
17423351 Methods And Systems For Data Transfer Over Non-Access Stratum (Nas) Control Plane For Cellular Internet Of Things (Ciot) In A 5g System (5gs) Patented View
18442066 Method And Apparatus For Reporting Flight Path Information, And Method And Apparatus For Determining Information Patented View
17612773 Network User Association Patented View
18663507 Uplink Resource Allocation Method And Device, Base Station, And Terminal Patented View
17904354 Communication Related To Network Slice Patented View
17699957 Expanding Angle-Of-Arrival (Aoa) Coverage With Switching Between Three Or More Antennas For Ultra-Wideband (Uwb) Devices Patented View
17565126 Telecommunications Network Predictions Based On Machine Learning Using Aggregated Network Key Performance Indicators Patented View
17645949 Methods And Apparatus To Facilitate Access Link And Atg-Based Message Relaying Patented View
18450924 Methods And Systems For Providing Autonomous Wireless Coverage Patented View
18600638 Methods And Systems For Verification Of An Affiliation Of A Call Initiator With An Organization Patented View
18823724 Method For Setting Up A Localization System, And Localization System Patented View
18154439 Terminal Device And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium Storing Computer Readable Instructions For Terminal Device Patented View
17896041 Call Response Method, Call Response Device, Terminal Device And Storage Medium Patented View
18883811 Systems And Methods For Emergency Contact And Response Abandoned View
18335444 Methods Providing Dynamic Nef Tunnel Allocation And Related Network Nodes/functions Abandoned View
17577543 Service Continuity Implementation Method, Related Apparatus, And System Patented View
17873930 Apparatus And Method For Emergency Dispatch Patented View
17825787 Access Method And Apparatus Patented View
17573523 Method And Apparatus For Scalable Ml-Based Frameworks For Resource Planning In Enterprise Networks Patented View
17604914 Ultra-Wideband Location Systems And Methods Patented View
18633018 Allocation Of Radio Resources For Vehicular Communication Patented View
17915036 Station Placement Support Method, Station Placement Support Apparatus And Station Placement Support Program Abandoned View
18543820 Controlling A Device That Operates In A Monitor Mode Patented View
18395563 Methods And Apparatus For Modeling Wireless Traffic And For Using Wireless Traffic Information Patented View
17271520 Measuring A Network Performance Characteristic Patented View

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