Examiner Waits Alan B

3617-WAITS-ALAN-B

Employment Information

Art Unit:3617 — Ships
Group:3610 — Surface Transportation
Classes: 384 — Bearings
185 — Motors: spring, weight, or animal powered
403 — Joints and connections
301 — Land vehicles: wheels and axles
182 — Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
703 — Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation
428 — Stock material or miscellaneous articles
156 — Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
248 — Supports
244 — Aeronautics and astronautics
Phone:(571) 270-3664
Email:alan.waits@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:19 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

41
3-Year Grant rate: 82% over 601 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 41st

With Examiner Waits, you have a 82% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Waits 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 Waits, 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 Waits's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3617 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Waits 1.4
Art Unit 3617 1.2

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