Examiner Kim Tae W

2876-KIM-TAE-W

Employment Information

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

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

77
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).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

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.

Comparison with Art Unit 2876

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

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Kim has granted 27 of 54 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 50%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Kim has granted 23 of 38 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 61%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Kim, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 22%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

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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