1. Stats
  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

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