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| Art Unit: | 2695 — Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices |
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| Group: | 2690 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications; Audio Signals; Digital Audio Data Processing |
| Classes: |
381 — Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices 704 — Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications 180 — Motor vehicles 340 — Communications: electrical 356 — Optics: measuring and testing 181 — Acoustics 702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing |
| Phone: | (571) 272-0563 |
| Email: | douglas.suthers@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg |
| Service: | 21 years |
| Grade: | GS-13 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 88% over 259 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Easier |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 24th
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With Examiner Suthers, you have a 88% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Suthers is an easier examiner and in the 24th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Suthers, 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 Suthers's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2695 and higher than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
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| Examiner Suthers | 1.5 |
| Art Unit 2695 | 1.1 |
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