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Examiner Sittner Michael J

3621-SITTNER-MICHAEL-J

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
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
718 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control
Phone:(571) 270-3984
Email:michael.sittner@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:14 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

95
3-Year Grant rate: 12% over 162 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 95th

With Examiner Sittner, you have a 12% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Sittner is an extremely hard examiner and in the 95th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Sittner, 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 Sittner's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3621 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Sittner 3.8
Art Unit 3621 2.3

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Sittner has granted 4 of 66 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 6%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Sittner has granted 16 of 96 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 17%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Sittner, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 183%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17388864 Propensity Modeling Process For Customer Targeting Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Abandoned View
18125312 Learning Management System And Method For Creating And Providing Context-Based Personalized Learning Content Abandoned View
18903750 Methods And Apparatus To Facilitate Consumer Actions Using Quick Response (Qr) Codes Abandoned View
18243429 Information Presentation Method And Information Processing Apparatus Patented View
17664123 Measuring Of Carbon Footprint In Offshore Drilling Abandoned View
18180501 System And Method For An Instrumentation Node For Measuring And Tracking Carbon Footprint Of Manufactured Goods Abandoned View
15822624 Image Processing To Detect Aging Produce Abandoned View
18013263 Contactless Intelligent Customer-Service System Applied To Rail Transit And Application Method Thereof Abandoned View
18743870 Shift Generation System, Shift Generation Method, And Non-Transitory Recording Medium Storing Computer-Readable Shift Generation Program Abandoned View
18311098 Providing Support For Complying With Fishing Regulations Abandoned View
16821616 Beacon-Based Device Location Interface Patented View
18358701 System And Method For Determining A Pattern For A Successful Opportunity And Determining The Next Best Action Abandoned View
17625709 Tracing-Based Passenger Protection Method And Apparatus, And Check-In System Abandoned View
15857943 Method And System For Detecting Fraudulent User-Content Provider Pairs Patented View
17800814 Dispensing System Patented View
18131053 Site Access, Document Control And Notification System Abandoned View
18458616 Systems For Integrating Online Reviews With Point Of Sale (Pos) Or Epos (Electronic Point Of Sale) System Patented View
17655126 Analysis And Recommendation Systems, And Related Methods And Computer-Readable Media Abandoned View
17473280 Joint-Based Item Recognition Abandoned View
15621846 Coordinated Multi-View Display Experiences Patented View
17655920 Supply Chain Comparison Via Ai Ethics Scores Abandoned View
18026055 Methods For Locaton Based Targeted Recommendation Abandoned View
16579630 Methods And Systems For Predicting Consumer Behavior From Transaction Card Purchases Abandoned View
18525245 Analyzing Job Profile Data Abandoned View
18768603 Systems And Methods For Monitoring Individual Carbon Emissions Abandoned View
18656275 Machine Learning Based User Targeting Abandoned View
17968564 System For Identifying Product Substitutes Field Abandoned View
18634438 System For Identifying And Targeting Users For Incentives In A Social Network Abandoned View
18009356 Enterprise Activation Degree Determining Method And Apparatus, Electronic Device And Storage Medium Abandoned View
16582208 System And Method For Assisting Customer Support Agents Using A Contextual Bandit Based Decision Support System Abandoned View
18387830 Systems And Methods To Facilitate Providing A Software Development Kit (Sdk) For Rewards For Making Gift Card Purchases To Multiple Application Publishers Patented View
17884509 System And Method For Providing Real-Time Technical Troubleshooting Support Abandoned View
17532624 Systems And Methods For Autogeneration Of Information Technology Infrastructure Process Automation And Abstraction Of The Universal Application Of Reinforcement Learning To Information Technology Infrastructure Components And Interfaces Abandoned View
17740247 System And Method For Providing On-Demand Legal Counsel And Decentralized Trusted Networks Abandoned View
17760502 Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing Method, And Program Abandoned View
17615983 Equipment Maintenance System Abandoned View
17740933 Data Aggregation Based On Multisystem Integration For Object Collaboration Abandoned View
17088340 Reducing Computational Overhead Involved With Processing Received Service Requests Abandoned View
17891099 Systems And Methods For Providing Digital Health Services Abandoned View
16366578 Multi-Entity Enterprise Loyalty System Patented View
17524792 Messaging Display System And Method Abandoned View
15342055 Marketing Display Systems And Methods Abandoned View
17383306 Device And Method For Product Recall Management Abandoned View
18130904 Targeted Advertising And Inventory Optimization Improvements Utilizing User Location And Selection Data Abandoned View
17622905 Payment System And Payment Method, Which Use Discount Coupon Capable Of Changing Discount Rate Abandoned View
17365993 Methods For Remote Building Intelligence, Energy Waste Detection, Efficiency Tracking, Utility Management And Analytics Abandoned View
18078542 Automatic After Call Social Messaging Connection Platform Abandoned View
17639224 Platform, System, Method, And Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium Abandoned View
15461113 Sketch-Based Bid Fraud Detection Abandoned View
17891131 Method And Apparatus For Providing Subscription Notification Service Abandoned View

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