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| Art Unit: | 2876 — Registers |
|---|---|
| Group: | 2870-2880 — Optics/Photocopying |
| Classes: |
235 — Registers 362 — Illumination 705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 407 — Cutters, for shaping 382 — Image analysis 436 — Chemistry: analytical and immunological testing 726 — Information security 232 — Deposit and collection receptacles 702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing 455 — Telecommunications |
| Phone: | (571) 272-5971 |
| Email: | taew.kim@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg |
| Service: | 21 years |
| Grade: | GS-12 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 54% over 92 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Harder |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 77th
|
With Examiner Kim, you have a 54% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Kim is a harder examiner and in the 77th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Kim, 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 Kim's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2876 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Kim | 2.4 |
| Art Unit 2876 | 1.1 |
Examiner Kim has granted 27 of 54 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 50%.
Examiner Kim has granted 23 of 38 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 61%.
With Examiner Kim, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 22%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17882878 | Merchant Item And Service Return Processing Using Wireless Beacons | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Abandoned | View |
| 18987497 | Automated Feeder System And Methods Of Use | Patented | View | |
| 16754244 | Image Processing Method And Apparatus | Abandoned | View | |
| 17522207 | Account Registration Using A Contactless Card | Patented | View | |
| 17857912 | Contactless Metal Cards With Fingerprint Sensor | Abandoned | View | |
| 18235562 | System And Method For Funding Game Play | Abandoned | View | |
| 18332930 | Mounting Mechanisms For Electronic Lighting Devices | Patented | View | |
| 16044178 | Data Reduction In A Bar Code Reading Robot Shelf Monitoring System | Patented | View | |
| 16435874 | Business Process Starting Method And Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 17893371 | Type 4 Nfc Tags As Protocol Interface | Patented | View | |
| 16908836 | Mobile Phone Pairing For Dynamic Spatial Activation Of Communication Device | Patented | View | |
| 17589659 | Method, Device, And System For Generating, Repairing, And Identifying An Incomplete Qr Code | Patented | View | |
| 18204188 | Systems And Methods For Saw Tooth Milling To Prevent Chip Fraud | Patented | View | |
| 18080757 | Electronic Card Capable Of Light-Emitting Display | Patented | View | |
| 18251100 | Rfid Tag For Rubber Product And Method Of Manufacturing Rfid Tag For Rubber Product | Patented | View | |
| 16815835 | Electronic Chip With Communication Interfaces | Abandoned | View | |
| 17879982 | System And Method For Assigning And Managing Codes Associated With Public And Private Items | Abandoned | View | |
| 17770883 | Rfid Tag With Narrow Gap For Use In Microwaveable Food Packages | Patented | View | |
| 18472889 | Automated Feeder System And Methods Of Use | Patented | View | |
| 17159940 | Systems And Methods For Modifying Web Pages With Ancillary Content And Creating, Distributing, And Tracking Karmacredits | Abandoned | View | |
| 17316836 | System, Method, And Apparatus For Displaying Proprietary Information Within A Quick Response (Qr) Code | Abandoned | View | |
| 17839521 | Rfid Enabled Metal Transaction Cards | Abandoned | View | |
| 17490274 | Interrogation Device And/or System Having Alignment Feature(S) For Wireless Transponder Tagged Specimen Containers And/or Carriers | Patented | View | |
| 17828759 | Barcode Scanner With Vision System And Shared Illumination | Abandoned | View | |
| 16902110 | Integrated Container Adapter For Photoacoustic Microscopy | Patented | View | |
| 17616666 | Card Reader | Patented | View | |
| 17450944 | Method And Apparatus For Obtaining Response Data | Abandoned | View | |
| 16620688 | Device In Particular Printed Item For Data Communication | Patented | View | |
| 17450941 | Method And Apparatus For Obtaining And Reporting Response Data | Abandoned | View | |
| 17450936 | Method And Apparatus For Augmenting And Analyzing Response Data | Abandoned | View | |
| 17061373 | System And Method For Funding Game Play | Abandoned | View | |
| 17978245 | Slot-Type Ultra-Wideband Depolarized Chipless Rfid Tag | Patented | View | |
| 16718999 | Methods And Apparatus For Multi-Stage Activation Of Communication Devices | Patented | View | |
| 17939122 | Automated Feeder System And Methods Of Use | Patented | View | |
| 16989008 | Waste Recycling System With An Automatic Dumpster | Patented | View | |
| 16704392 | Object Identification | Patented | View | |
| 17178986 | Method And System For Facilitating Secure Card-Based Transactions | Abandoned | View | |
| 16598370 | Card Reader With Silent Coercion Alarm | Abandoned | View | |
| 17347658 | System And Method For Tracking Document Shredding And Voter Ballots | Patented | View | |
| 17104912 | Systems And Methods For Saw Tooth Milling To Prevent Chip Fraud | Patented | View | |
| 17080191 | Tag Reading Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 15212074 | Mounting Mechanisms For Electronic Lighting Devices | Patented | View | |
| 17356515 | Disturbing Magnetic Field Generator And Card Reader | Patented | View | |
| 17353348 | Light Emitting Device And Integrated Light Emitting Device | Patented | View | |
| 16296473 | Rfid Tag | Patented | View | |
| 16083873 | A System For Product Authentication And Method Thereof | Abandoned | View | |
| 16408086 | Marking Integrated Circuit Package With Encoded Image For Scanning To Obtain Manufacturing Parameters | Patented | View | |
| 16863877 | Method And System For Estimating Groundwater Recharge Based On Pixel Scale | Abandoned | View | |
| 17464055 | Methods And System For Magnetic Image Identification | Abandoned | View | |
| 16615598 | Layered Rfid Tag | Abandoned | View |
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