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| Art Unit: | 3619 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination |
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| Group: | 3600 Search — Search and Classification |
| Classes: |
403 — Joints and connections 256 — Fences 411 — Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-threaded fastener 439 — Electrical connectors 182 — Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold 285 — Pipe joints or couplings 482 — Exercise devices 440 — Marine propulsion 242 — Winding, tensioning, or guiding 244 — Aeronautics and astronautics |
| Phone: | (571) 272-7081 |
| Email: | michael.ferguson@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr |
| Service: | 25 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 69% over 329 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Harder |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 63rd
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With Examiner Ferguson, you have a 69% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Ferguson is a harder examiner and in the 63rd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Ferguson, 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 Ferguson's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3619 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Ferguson | 1.8 |
| Art Unit 3619 | 1.5 |
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