Examiner Pilkington James

3617-PILKINGTON-JAMES

Employment Information

Art Unit:3617 — Ships
Group:3610 — Surface Transportation
Classes: 384 — Bearings
301 — Land vehicles: wheels and axles
415 — Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps
184 — Lubrication
464 — Rotary shafts, gudgeons, housings, and flexible couplings for rotary shafts
416 — Fluid reaction surfaces (i.e., impellers)
277 — Seal for a joint or juncture
Phone:(571) 272-5052
Email:james.pilkington@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:20 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

41
3-Year Grant rate: 82% over 573 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 41st

With Examiner Pilkington, you have a 82% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Pilkington 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 Pilkington, 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 3617

Examiner Pilkington's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3617 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Pilkington 1.7
Art Unit 3617 1.2

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