Examiner Swartz Stephen S

3625-SWARTZ-STEPHEN-S

Employment Information

Art Unit:3625 — 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
175 — Boring or penetrating the earth
701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
434 — Education and demonstration
703 — Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation
455 — Telecommunications
Phone:(571) 270-7789
Email:stephen.swartz@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:17 years
Grade:GS-12

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

88
3-Year Grant rate: 35% over 187 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 88th

With Examiner Swartz, you have a 35% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Swartz is a very hard examiner and in the 88th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Swartz, 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 3625

Examiner Swartz's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3625 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Swartz 3.2
Art Unit 3625 1.8

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Swartz has granted 30 of 108 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 28%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Swartz has granted 35 of 79 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 44%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Swartz, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 57%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
16753823 Dynamic Balancing Of Well Construction And Well Operations Planning And Rig Equipment Total Cost Of Ownership Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18316020 Computer-Implemented Method And System For Assessing Compatibility Of Human Resources Within An Organization Abandoned View
17947981 Methods, Systems, Apparatus And Articles Of Manufacture To Model Ecommerce Sales Abandoned View
18813078 Method And Device For Optimizing Production Scheduling Based On Capacity Of Bottleneck Apparatus, And Medium Patented View
17643488 System And Method For Cloud-First Streaming And Market Data Utility Patented View
16418671 Systems And Methods For Item Tracking And Delivery Patented View
17121528 Apparatuses, Computer-Implemented Methods, And Computer Program Products For Improved Monitored Building Environment Monitoring And Scoring Abandoned View
18715024 Data Delivery Services - Volume Conversion To Work Units Abandoned View
17665435 Post-Processing Heuristics For Optimal Production Scheduling For Process Manufacturing Abandoned View
17806421 Method And System For Jobsite Monitoring Abandoned View
18295642 System With Capacity And Resource Allocation Display To Facilitate Update Of Electronic Record Information Patented View
17678616 Methods, Systems, And Devices To Predict Walk-Out Of Customers Associated With A Premises Abandoned View
17552105 Electronic Match Engine With External Generation Of Market Data Using A Minimum Data Set Patented View
17934596 Well Activity Management Abandoned View
18224642 Method For Hierarchically Optimizing Scheduling Plan Of Heterogeneous Helicopter Fleet Abandoned View
16938289 Systems And Methods For Dynamic Crowdsourced Delivery Abandoned View
17700223 Personalized Reporting Service Abandoned View
16951213 Method And System For Utility Infrastructure Condition Monitoring, Detection And Response Patented View
17944775 Detection Of Terminology Understanding Mismatch Candidates Abandoned View
17739392 Vehicle Rental Method Based On A Safe Driving Grade And A Server Using The Same Abandoned View
17727314 Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Computer Readable Medium Abandoned View
17524521 Sensor Device-Based Determination Of Geographic Zone Dispositions Abandoned View
17180501 Methods And Systems For Aggregate Consumer-Behavior Simulation And Prediction Based On Automated Flight-Recommendation-And-Booking Systems Abandoned View
17514444 Shipping Disruption Predictive Technology Patented View
18482181 Performance Evaluation Systems And Methods Abandoned View
18440511 System And Method For Processing Requirements In Erp And Hris Patented View
18248411 Calculation Apparatus, Calculation Method And Program Abandoned View
18097101 Merging A Two Or More User Structures Into A Multi-Line User Structure With Points-Based Augmentation Abandoned View
17932998 Review Platform And Service Abandoned View
17637454 Project Management Apparatus, Project Management Method, And Recording Medium Abandoned View
17290524 Project Management Systems And Methods Incorporating Proximity-Based Association Abandoned View
17442460 Systems And Methods For Lighting Monitoring Abandoned View
17818125 Systems And Methods For Processing Intelligence Of Users Captured Through Quantitative Data Collection Abandoned View
17602283 Process Management Device And Machine Learning Device Abandoned View
17811114 Operation Management Method, Operation Management Apparatus, And Operation Management System Abandoned View
17625416 Sharing Management Device, Terminal, Sharing Management Method, And Recording Medium Abandoned View
17810008 Analytics Toolkit System Abandoned View
16945134 Systems And Methods For Providing An Offer Based On Calendar Data Mining Patented View
16554480 Auditable Networked Enterprise Oversight System Abandoned View
17820693 Optimized Calculation Of Member Activity Metrics Abandoned View
16871875 Intelligent Dealership Recommendation Engine Abandoned View
17017989 System And Method For Cataloging Products Based On Cross-Sell Analytics Abandoned View
17128263 Compatibility Verification Of Data Standards Abandoned View
16538753 Customer Tool For Remote Management Of Waste Services Abandoned View
17099480 Method And System For Transmitting Data From Manufacturing Data Originators To Target Computing Systems Using Defined Message Schemas Abandoned View
16493813 Information Providing Apparatus, Method Of Providing Information, And Non-Transitory Storage Medium Abandoned View
16871794 Estimation Of Crop Pest Risk And/or Crop Disease Risk At Sub-Farm Level Patented View
18047805 Computer-Based Systems And Methods For Sentiment Analysis Abandoned View
16560966 System And Method For Listing Document Transformation And Compliance Abandoned View
16318950 Standardisation Method And Apparatus For Erroneous Transactions Patented View

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