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  2. USPTO
  3. TC 3600
  4. Group 3620
  5. Art Unit 3621
  6. Examiner Refai

Examiner Refai Sam M

3621-REFAI-SAM-M

Employment Information

Art Unit:3621 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
Group:3620 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing
Classes: 705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
Phone:(313) 446-4822
Email:sam.refai@uspto.gov
Location:MI 48207
Title:Pat Examnr Computer Science
Service:14 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

79
3-Year Grant rate: 52% over 169 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 79th

With Examiner Refai, you have a 52% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Refai is a harder examiner and in the 79th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Refai, 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 3621

Examiner Refai's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3621 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Refai 1.8
Art Unit 3621 2.3

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Refai has granted 53 of 98 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 54%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Refai has granted 35 of 71 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 49%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Refai, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 9%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18365837 System And Method For Providing External Notifications Of Events In A Virtual Space To Users Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18914984 Heuristic Clustering Patented View
18524019 Page Evaluation System, Page Evaluation Method, And Computer Program Abandoned View
18804822 Credit And Rewards Program For Electric Vehicle Users Based On Clean Energy Usage Patented View
18771304 Portable Terminal Device Abandoned View
18795988 Universal Legal Aid Abandoned View
18072487 Dynamic Augmented Reality And Gamification Experience For In-Store Shopping Patented View
18422211 Method For Providing Expected Profit Information Based On E-Commerce And Computing Device For Executing The Same Abandoned View
18733642 Methods, Systems, And Computer-Readable Media For Dynamic Content Allocation Abandoned View
18185886 Customized Image Generation Abandoned View
18524703 Real Time Bidding Engine With Radius Insights Abandoned View
18395269 System And Method For Conducting Semi-Opaque Sales With Item Bundles Abandoned View
18228917 System And Method For Providing A Combined Process Flow For Claiming Tokens And Being Directed To A Specific State Of An Application In A Single Interaction Abandoned View
18375152 Methods, Systems, And Media For Identifying Automatically Refreshed Advertisements Patented View
18614324 Strategic Use Of Games In Ecommerce Abandoned View
17902084 Support System, Support Method, And Support Program Abandoned View
18224726 Deep Learning-Based Revenue-Per-Click Prediction Model Framework Patented View
17308002 System And Method For Compensation Of Individual Data Providers Abandoned View
18375701 Systems And Methods For Redeeming Rewards For Cash At An Atm Patented View
17498721 Geographical Merchant Consortium Commerce System For Contextual Commerce Abandoned View
18135014 Apparatus And Methods For Collaborative Advertising And Marketing Campaigns Abandoned View
18392003 Methods, Systems, And Media For Setting And Using An Advertisement Frequency Cap Based On Causal Conversions Patented View
18303319 Systems And Methods To Automate Incentivization Of Themed Content Generated By Consumer Users Abandoned View
17245566 User-Controlled Viewing Preferences Abandoned View
17920790 Methods, Systems, Apparatuses, And Devices For Facilitating A Driver To Advertise Products To Passengers Abandoned View
17849977 Product Purchase System, Server, First Communication Terminal And Second Communication Terminal Patented View
15785117 Fuel Dispensing Environment With A Distributed Promotion System Abandoned View
17836332 System Of Utilizing An E-Commerce/customer Social Media And Networking Platform Having Chat And Check-In Functions Enabling Gifting And Promotion Of Goods And Services Patented View
18239989 Output Control Device, Information Output System, Output Control Method, And Program Abandoned View
18372821 Method And System For Exemplary Campaign Message Management Patented View
18407555 Data Monitoring System Abandoned View
18127890 Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium Abandoned View
18456669 System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Generating A Synthetic Control Group Patented View
18362910 Systems And Methods For Managing Merchandising Card Reminders Patented View
18204074 Trained Model For Automatically Determining Directed Spend Program Eligibility Abandoned View
17767512 System For Providing Reward Service Using Insertion-Type Reward Module, And Method Thereof Abandoned View
17783793 Method And System For Crediting A Reward To An Electronic Wallet Account Abandoned View
17976089 Position-Bias Correction For Predictive And Ranking Systems Patented View
17487413 Dynamic Financial Management System, Method And Device Having An Integrated Advertisement Function Abandoned View
17880605 Systems And Methods For Multidimensional Knowledge Transfer For Click Through Rate Prediction Patented View
18299599 Reward System For Autonomous Rideshare Vehicles Abandoned View
18114445 Real-Time Incentives Based On Machine Learning Systems Abandoned View
18116597 System And Method For Social Throttling Abandoned View
18230349 Information Processing Device, Provision System, And Provision Method Abandoned View
18497067 Heuristic Clustering Patented View
18310930 Contextual Targeting Based On Metaverse Monitoring Patented View
17131091 Advertisement Providing System And Advertisement Providing Method Abandoned View
17643843 Timepost System And Method For Advertising Via Blockchain And Distributed Ledger Networks Abandoned View
18105689 Code Generation Platform And Method Thereof Abandoned View
17515048 Systems And Methods For Privacy Conscious Market Collaboration Abandoned View

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