Examiner Tsai Hsien C

2881-TSAI-HSIEN-C

Employment Information

Art Unit:2881 — Radiant energy
Group:2870-2880 — Optics/Photocopying
Classes: 250 — Radiant energy
850 — Scanning-probe techniques or apparatus; applications of scanning-probe techniques, e.g., scanning probe microscopy [spm]
378 — X-ray or gamma ray systems or devices
435 — Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
324 — Electricity: measuring and testing
702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
417 — Pumps
716 — Computer-aided design and analysis of circuits and semiconductor masks
118 — Coating apparatus
445 — Electric lamp or space discharge component or device manufacturing
Phone:(571) 272-7438
Email:hsien.tsai@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:13 years
Grade:GS-12

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

5
3-Year Grant rate: 95% over 159 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Easy
Difficulty Percentile: 5th

With Examiner Tsai, you have a 95% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Tsai is an extremely easy examiner and in the 5th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Tsai, 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 2881

Examiner Tsai's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 2881 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Tsai 0.6
Art Unit 2881 1.0

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Tsai has granted 136 of 143 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 95%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Tsai has granted 15 of 16 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 94%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Tsai, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 1%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18222510 Detector Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18243178 Electron Microscope And Specimen Orientation Alignment Method Patented View
17844219 Time-Of-Flight Mass Analysers Patented View
17923662 Scintillator And Charged Particle Radiation Apparatus Patented View
17899772 Light Source Apparatus Patented View
17916930 De-Clustering Ion Guide Patented View
18296103 Stage Device, Charged Particle Beam Device, And Vacuum Device Patented View
17923203 Differential Pumping Apparatus And Focused Charged Particle Beam System Patented View
17836670 Dual-Space, Single-Species Architecture For Trapped-Ion Quantum Information Processing Patented View
18327698 Flow Recirculation For Mobility Separation Improvement Patented View
18451026 Euv Source With Rotation Crucible And Laser And Tin (Sn) Auto-Filling Method Patented View
18283109 Mass Spectrometry Methods And Systems For High Pressure Charge State Control And/or Fragmentation Patented View
18551211 Mass Spectrometer And Method For Controlling Same Patented View
18340152 Multiple Charged Particle Beam Writing Method And Multiple Charged Particle Beam Writing Apparatus Patented View
18024128 Ion Spectrometer Abandoned View
17889176 Ultraviolet Light Fixture Abandoned View
17962825 Control Method Of Writing Apparatus And Writing Apparatus Abandoned View
18299749 Coverage Calculating Method, Charged Particle Beam Writing Method, Coverage Calculating Device, Charged Particle Beam Writing Apparatus, And Computer-Readable Storage Medium Patented View
18143684 System And Method For Ion Source Temperature Control Using Symmetric Or Asymmetric Application Of Force Patented View
18035916 Analysis Device Patented View
18082543 Mems Platform For Thin Film Nanomechanics Characterization Patented View
18007458 A Gas Ion Gun Patented View
18131840 Flow For High Resolution Stereoscopic Measurements Patented View
18050532 Ion Sources For Improved Robustness Patented View
17876219 Electrode Fabrication And Die Shaping For Metal-On-Glass Ion Traps Patented View
18148761 Multi-Electron Beam Writing Apparatus And Multi-Electron Beam Writing Method Patented View
17852674 Ion Funnels Having Improved Pressure Distribution And Flow Characteristics Abandoned View
17922823 Charged Particle Beam Device And Sample Observation Method Patented View
17663085 Hybrid Mass Spectrometry Apparatus Patented View
17925471 Method For Ion/ion Reaction For Ion Mobility Mass Spectroscopy Patented View
17861076 Curved Ion Mobility Architecture Patented View
17832577 Plant Disinfection Apparatus Abandoned View
17866273 Methods And Apparatuses For Barium States Preparations For Quantum Operations Patented View
18045666 Methods And Apparatuses For Mapping State Preparation Error To Subspace Leakage Error Patented View
17906548 Ion Guide Assembly Having Multiple Ion Guides Patented View
18021356 Focused Ion Beam System Patented View
18536031 Method And Systems Useful For Producing Aluminum Ions Patented View
17865559 Device For Controlling Trapped Ions Having An Electrode Circuitry Configured For Device Testing Patented View
17941095 Method For Rapid On-Site Detection Of Fentanyl Analogs Using A Miniature Mass Spectrometer Patented View
18816188 Outer Source Assembly And Associated Components Patented View
17588048 Automatic Particle Beam Focusing Patented View
17665302 Cash Sanitization Or Sterlization Device Patented View
17756937 Monitor For A Radiotherapy Device Patented View
17753922 Electron Induced Dissociation Devices And Methods Patented View
17730916 Methods Of Determining Aberrations Of A Charged Particle Beam, And Charged Particle Beam System Patented View
18045387 Methods And Apparatuses For Reducing Phase Noise Patented View
17759087 Method And System For The Identification Of Compounds In Complex Biological Or Environmental Samples Abandoned View
17934421 Methods And Apparatuses For Electromagnetically-Induced Transparency Cooling In An Isotope With A Nuclear Spin Of 3/2 Or Greater Patented View
17831147 Live-Assisted Image Acquisition Method And System With Charged Particle Microscopy Patented View
17627851 Structure For Simulating A Thermal Image Patented View

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