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| Art Unit: | 3993 — Surgery |
|---|---|
| Group: | 3990 — Central Reexamination Unit |
| Classes: |
242 — Winding, tensioning, or guiding 226 — Advancing material of indeterminate length 174 — Electricity: conductors and insulators 219 — Electric heating 141 — Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting means 701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location 439 — Electrical connectors 239 — Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing 131 — Tobacco 340 — Communications: electrical |
| Phone: | (571) 272-5590 |
| Email: | william.dondero@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 88% over 382 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Easier |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 25th
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With Examiner Dondero, you have a 88% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Dondero is an easier examiner and in the 25th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Dondero, 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.
Examiner Dondero's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3993 and higher than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Dondero | 0.8 |
| Art Unit 3993 | 1.8 |
Examiner Dondero has granted 306 of 348 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 88%.
Examiner Dondero has granted 30 of 34 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 88%.
With Examiner Dondero, conducting an interview does not change your chance of getting your patent granted.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17959160 | Sliding Component | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Patented | View |
| 18612436 | Fastener Handling Devices For Fastener Setting Machines, And Related Methods | Patented | View | |
| 16707701 | Dual Wire Welding System And Method | Patented | View | |
| 16707659 | Dual Wire Welding System And Method | Patented | View | |
| 17327916 | Stuffed Waffle Maker | Abandoned | View | |
| 18447283 | Safety Restraint For Break-Away Wheel Assemblies | Patented | View | |
| 18126530 | Electronic Device Including Housing Containing Metallic Materials | Patented | View | |
| 17663443 | Robot Hand | Patented | View | |
| 18675692 | Liquid Ejection Head And Recording Device | Patented | View | |
| 18516814 | Heat Engines, Systems For Providing Pressurized Refrigerant, And Related Methods | Patented | View | |
| 18380805 | Flexible Cable | Patented | View | |
| 17742574 | Conveying Assembly For Snowmaking Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 18634775 | Equalized Hydraulic Clamp Force Control | Patented | View | |
| 18674054 | Engine Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 17896529 | Improvements Relating To Smoking Article Assembly | Patented | View | |
| 17890303 | Improvements Relating To Smoking Article Assembly | Patented | View | |
| 18141065 | System And Method For Coupling An Implement To A Work Vehicle | Patented | View | |
| 17867498 | Intrascopic Hydraulic Cylinder | Patented | View | |
| 17499914 | Apparatus And Method For Dispensing Solid Substances | Patented | View | |
| 18098928 | Turbine Powered Electricity Generation | Abandoned | View | |
| 17988657 | Lubricant Guiding Structure In Automatic Transmission | Patented | View | |
| 17974866 | Socket Structure With Duplex Electrical Connection | Patented | View | |
| 18526217 | Horizontal Articulated Robot | Patented | View | |
| 18127621 | Personal Vaporizer Having Reversing Air Flow | Patented | View | |
| 16945386 | Mobile Fueling System And Method | Patented | View | |
| 17673724 | Compressor Having Round Part Placed Near Outlet Port | Patented | View | |
| 18110573 | Temperature Controlled Food Tray System | Patented | View | |
| 17380484 | Apparatus For Transporting And Dispensing Wire Or Cable From A Barrel Pack | Patented | View | |
| 18075644 | Automatic Cut And Transfer Coiler And Or Spooler | Patented | View | |
| 17407988 | Apparatus And Method For A Free-Spinning Wire Dispensing Reel | Patented | View | |
| 17173982 | Yarn Feeding Assembly For Heat Setting Applications, And Systems And Methods Of Using Same | Patented | View | |
| 17211555 | Textile Machine Producing Cross-Wound Packages And Method For Operating A Textile Machine Producing Cross-Wound Packages | Patented | View | |
| 17480637 | Compact Motorized Tensioning Device For Footwear | Patented | View | |
| 17704311 | Method And Device For Monitoring A Yarn Tension Of A Running Yarn | Patented | View | |
| 17317336 | Bobbin Loader Apparatus And Method | Patented | View | |
| 17272889 | Wound Body And Method For Manufacturing Wound Body | Patented | View | |
| 18174272 | Method Of Installing Cable On Cable Reel | Abandoned | View | |
| 17572141 | Web Transport Control Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 17962264 | Stackable Wire-Dispensing Container | Patented | View | |
| 17590294 | Yarn Carrier Tubes | Patented | View | |
| 17286961 | Device For Correcting Meandering In Non-Contact Conveyance For Strip Material | Patented | View | |
| 17571728 | Low Tension Application Coiler | Patented | View | |
| 17268741 | Device And Method For Braking A Conductor | Patented | View | |
| 17432674 | Device And Method For Winding A Thread | Patented | View | |
| 17264017 | Spreader Roll | Patented | View | |
| 17954239 | Wire Caddy For Transporting And Dispensing Wire Or Cable | Patented | View | |
| 17346899 | Spindle Unit | Patented | View | |
| 16960231 | Lead Wire Pulling Out Mechanism | Patented | View | |
| 17716925 | Power Driven Circuit Wire Box | Patented | View | |
| 16526595 | Automated Creel Assemblies And Systems And Methods Of Making And Using Same | Patented | View |
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