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Examiner Jordan Andrew

2874-JORDAN-ANDREW

Employment Information

Art Unit:2874 — Optical waveguides
Group:28XX — Semiconductors B
Classes: 385 — Optical waveguides
359 — Optical: systems and elements
356 — Optics: measuring and testing
349 — Liquid crystal cells, elements and systems
174 — Electricity: conductors and insulators
362 — Illumination
398 — Optical communications
347 — Incremental printing of symbolic information
726 — Information security
600 — Surgery
Phone:(571) 270-1571
Email:andrew.jordan@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Physics
Service:16 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

41
3-Year Grant rate: 82% over 423 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 41st

With Examiner Jordan, you have a 82% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Jordan is a medium examiner and in the 41st percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Jordan, 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 2874

Examiner Jordan's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2874 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Jordan 0.6
Art Unit 2874 1.1

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Jordan has granted 278 of 328 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 85%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Jordan has granted 70 of 95 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 74%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Jordan, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 13%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18129820 Optical Couplers With Gradient-Index Lenses And Methods Of Fabricating The Same Using Optical Radiation To Control Pitch Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18146068 Optical Module Having Electrically-Connected Substrate Patented View
18343008 Flexible Fiber Optic Circuits And Methods Of Manufacturing The Same Abandoned View
18209300 Fiber Splice Closure Patented View
18261391 Microstructured Optical Fiber And Preform For Same Having Specific Oxygen Deficiency Center And Chlorine Concentrations Patented View
17695789 Optical Waveguide Element, Optical Modulator, Optical Modulation Module, And Optical Transmission Device Abandoned View
18753561 Photonic Structure With Oxide Structure In Semiconductor Substrate And Method For Forming The Same Patented View
18109002 Systems For And Methods Of Using Fold And Output Gratings For Dual Axis And Pupil Expansion Patented View
18099058 Compact Fiber Optic Connectors Having Keying Portions And Locking Features Patented View
17681953 Fiber Optic Dead-End Cable Clamp With A Jaw Actuator Assembly Between A Jaw Member And A Cavity-Defining-Body Base Patented View
17476685 Termination Guide Label For Twin-Row Fiber Optic Connector With A Guiding Block Including Peaks And Valleys Patented View
18305558 Cable Manager With Cable-Strength Clamping Member And U-Shaped Cable Passage Patented View
17821755 Method Providing Suppression Of Excitation Field For Quantum Light Emitters Using Optical Interferometers Patented View
18760585 Composite Optical Phase Controller For Operatively Coupled Thermal-Based And Stress-Based Phase Tuning Of A Surface Waveguide Patented View
17604134 Freestanding Telecommunications Cable Guide That Is Both Movable And Slidable Patented View
16954920 Optical Waveguide And Diffractive Waveguide Display Abandoned View
18483300 Submarine Cable Architecture With Redundancy For Facilitating Shared Landing Site Having One Or More Telemetry Transceivers Located At One Or More Terrestrial Sites Patented View
17503501 Usb Connector For Fiber Optic Cable And Related Usb Extender Abandoned View
18033399 Optical Fibre Clip Patented View
17199335 Method To Couple Light Using Integrated Heat Spreader Abandoned View
18678585 Ordered Geometries For Optimized Holographic Projection Using A Tessellated Waveguide Array Abandoned View
17227065 Optical Device With Elements Having Outwardly-Curved Opposing Leading Edges Spaced According To A Duty Cycle, Pitch, And Critical Dimension Patented View
17741269 Fiber Optic Connector Having Flattened Regions That Face And Align To Prevent Rotation Patented View
18270589 Optical Connector Having Fitted Housings Applying Pressure To A Protection Sleeve Patented View
17933462 Transparent Waveguide Display With Grating Lamina That Both Couple And Extract Modulated Light Patented View
18059001 Optical Fiber Cable With Partitioned Case For Optical Fiber Cable Patented View
17798112 Fiber Optic Cable Gripping Device Abandoned View
18033386 Light Guiding Plate, Light Guiding Plate Module, And Image Display Device With Mesh Grating And Reflective Coating Abandoned View
18093919 Led Luminaire With A Cavity, Finned Interior, And A Curved Outer Wall Extending From A Surface On Which The Light Source Is Mounted Patented View
18013113 Optical Fiber And Its Connection Method Abandoned View
17640185 Bonded Structure And Method For Manufacturing A Bonded Structure Abandoned View
18337008 Mode Control In Heterogeneously Integrated Photonics Patented View
18164728 Sealing Enclosure For A Connector On A Cable Such As A Standardized Fiber-Optic Connector Having Coordinated Bodies Radially Compressing A Cable Seal Patented View
17793243 A Photonic Integrated Device For Converting A Light Signal Into Sound Via A Solid Photo-Acoustic Converter Patented View
17615335 Fiber Optic Cable Storage Devices, Systems And Methods With Mounted Components And Fiber Loop Management Patented View
18002809 Photodetector With Offset Electrodes And An N-Type Iii-V Light Absorbing Layer Abandoned View
17391589 Optical Module Using A Capacitor To Suppress Warpage Patented View
18071239 Heterogenously Integrated Short Wavelength Photonic Platform With Optimally Minimal Reflections Patented View
18051435 Distributed Fiber Sensing In A Packer For Permanent Casing And Formation Deformation Monitoring Patented View
18010664 Photonic Integrated Optical Device With An Optical Functional Element And Planar Lightwave Circuit Patented View
17523668 Germanium Waveguide Photodetector With Integrated Heater Patented View
17723530 Phase-Contrast Microscope With Ring-Structured Fiber Lighting And A Conjugate-Positioned Annular Phase Film Patented View
18516321 Augmented And Virtual Reality Display Systems With Correlated In-Coupling And Out-Coupling Optical Regions For Efficient Light Utilization Patented View
18063913 Reflector Orientation Of Geometrical And Mixed Waveguide For Reducing Grating Conspicuity For Near-Eye Displays Patented View
18441046 Preform For Optical Fiber With Low Chlorine Concentration Improvements Relating To Loss And Its Use, Method Of Its Production And Use Thereof Patented View
18359894 Semiconductor Device And Manufacturing Method Thereof Having Grating Coupled Dies And Nanostructures Patented View
18377683 Transparent Waveguide Display With Passive Expander Input Bragg Gratings With Different Angular Diffraction Efficiencies Patented View
18073144 Optical Components With One Or More Embedded Bragg Reflectors And Tapered Waveguide Cores Patented View
17481683 Wavelength-Specific Incoupling Gratings For Display Optimization Abandoned View
18502775 Crimp Body For Mini Duplex Connector With Push-Pull Polarity Mechanism And Carrier Patented View

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