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Examiner Kay Douglas

2857-KAY-DOUGLAS

Employment Information

Art Unit:2857 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
Group:2850-2860 — Printing/Measuring and Testing
Classes: 702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
128 — Surgery
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications
703 — Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation
604 — Surgery
175 — Boring or penetrating the earth
714 — Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
367 — Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices
324 — Electricity: measuring and testing
Phone:(408) 918-7569
Email:douglas.kay@uspto.gov
Location:CA 95113
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:10 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

76
3-Year Grant rate: 56% over 211 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 76th

With Examiner Kay, you have a 56% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Kay is a harder examiner and in the 76th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Kay, 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 2857

Examiner Kay's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2857 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Kay 2.3
Art Unit 2857 1.4

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Kay has granted 46 of 107 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 43%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Kay has granted 73 of 104 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 70%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Kay, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 63%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
19256809 Systems And Methods Of Sensor Data Fusion Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
17575441 System And Method Of Mapping A Duct Patented View
17720023 Continuous Waveform Streaming Patented View
16759001 Determining Operating State From Complex Sensor Data Abandoned View
19252869 Systems And Methods Of Sensor Data Fusion Patented View
19252894 Systems And Methods Of Sensor Data Fusion Patented View
18006602 Well Correlation Using Global And Local Machine Learning Models Patented View
19237662 Systems And Methods Of Sensor Data Fusion Patented View
19252836 Systems And Methods Of Sensor Data Fusion Patented View
17985921 Method For Manufacturing Display Device Patented View
19254829 Systems And Methods Of Sensor Data Fusion Patented View
18061360 Workflow To Directly Relate Rate Of Penetration (Rop) To Hole Cleaning Based On Real-Time Density And Rheology Of Drilling Fluids Abandoned View
18000805 Information Processing Apparatus And Information Processing Method Abandoned View
17917092 Control Apparatus And Control Method Patented View
17547486 Test Assistance Device, Test Assistance Method And Storage Medium Storing Program Abandoned View
19252816 Systems And Methods Of Sensor Data Fusion Patented View
18390633 Examination Method For Examining Robot Apparatus, Control Apparatus, And Storage Medium Patented View
17402121 Rotary Table Compensation Patented View
18577955 Method And System For Generating A Test Coupon Specification For Predicting Fatigue Life Of A Component Patented View
19249288 Systems And Methods Of Sensor Data Fusion Patented View
19252795 Systems And Methods Of Sensor Data Fusion Patented View
19174382 Systems And Methods Of Sensor Data Fusion Patented View
18403047 Power Balancing For Communications Patented View
17305861 Supervised Machine Learning-Based Wellbore Correlation Patented View
18662537 Downhole Monitoring Using Few-Mode Optical Fiber Based Distributed Acoustic Sensing Patented View
17991099 Managing Pipeline Corrosion In Oil And Gas Production Patented View
16844534 Apparatus And Method With Model Training Patented View
18052762 Evaluation Of Modeling Algorithms With Continuous Outputs Patented View
17309300 Reduction Of Backward Whirl During Drilling Patented View
18042344 Synchronization Of Tool Acceleration Vs Time Data And Driller Depth Vs Time Data Patented View
17340318 Tool And Method To Make High Resolution And High Penetration Measurement Of Corrosion Patented View
17310947 Temperature Measurement Device And Quality Control System Patented View
17218030 Efficient Encoding Methods Patented View
17139355 Dynamic Spatiotemporal Beamforming Self-Diagonostic System Patented View
17929412 Hybrid Neural Network For Drilling Anomaly Detection Patented View
16972156 Emissions Estimate Model Algorithms And Methods Patented View
16704804 Automated Fine-Tuning Of A Pre-Trained Neural Network For Transfer Learning Patented View
18407032 Tube Wave Analysis Of Well Communication Patented View
17350444 Method And Apparatus For Determining Cause Of Abnormaility In A Semiconductor Manufacturing Chamber Patented View
17125863 Emissions Estimate Model Algorithms And Methods Patented View
17708379 Method And System For Managing Drilling Parameters Based On Downhole Vibrations And Artificial Intelligence Patented View
16926800 Method For Controlling Power Supplies Abandoned View
18213216 Methods And Systems For Performing Automated Drilling Of A Wellbore Patented View
18390534 Time To Digital Converter Patented View
17938178 X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy Analysis Patented View
17068867 Aggregating And Analyzing Drug Administration Data Abandoned View
17959093 Real-Time Measurements Of Physical Properties Of Drilled Rock Formations During Drilling Operations Patented View
17230723 Analysis Assistance Device, Method, And Program For Searching For An Analysis Condition For Use With A Liquid Chromatography System Patented View
18990121 Systems And Methods Of Sensor Data Fusion Patented View
18465096 Scalable System And Engine For Forecasting Wind Turbine Failure Patented View

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