Examiner Houston Adam D

2836-HOUSTON-ADAM-D

Employment Information

Art Unit:2836 — Electrical transmission or interconnection systems
Group:28XX — Semiconductors B
Classes: 327 — Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and systems
315 — Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems
307 — Electrical transmission or interconnection systems
455 — Telecommunications
333 — Wave transmission lines and networks
257 — Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes)
342 — Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation)
713 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
343 — Communications: radio wave antennas
365 — Static information storage and retrieval
Phone:(571) 270-3901
Email:adam.houston@uspto.gov
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:19 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

3
3-Year Grant rate: 97% over 589 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Easy
Difficulty Percentile: 3rd

With Examiner Houston, you have a 97% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Houston is an extremely easy examiner and in the 3rd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Houston, 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 2836

Examiner Houston's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 2836 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Houston 0.3
Art Unit 2836 1.0

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