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  3. TC 3600
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  5. Art Unit 3624
  6. Examiner Koester

Examiner Koester Michael R

3624-KOESTER-MICHAEL-R

Employment Information

Art Unit:3624 — 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
Phone:(313) 446-4837
Email:michael.koester@uspto.gov
Location:MI 48207
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:8 years
Grade:GS-13

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

90
3-Year Grant rate: 31% over 122 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 90th

With Examiner Koester, you have a 31% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Koester is a very hard examiner and in the 90th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Koester, 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 3624

Examiner Koester's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3624 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Koester 3.2
Art Unit 3624 2.4

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Koester has granted 7 of 36 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 19%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Koester has granted 31 of 86 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 36%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Koester, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 89%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17742288 Encoded Hierarchy Representation And Method Of Generating Same Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
17805711 Identifying Skill Adjacencies And Skill Gaps For Generating Reskilling Recommendations And Explainability Abandoned View
16862892 Reserve System And Method Abandoned View
16988887 System And Methods For Using Drones In Dispersed Welding Environments Patented View
17540917 Measuring Impact Of Events On Affinity Cluster Using Propensity Dimensions Patented View
18434364 Systems And Methods Of Gig-Economy Fleet Mobilization Patented View
17652560 Device Of Predicting, Medium Of Predicting, And Method Of Predicting Production Index Using Moving Object Stay Number Patented View
18326603 Systems And Methods For Improving Ridesharing Abandoned View
17488665 Quantum Computation For Train And Driver Recovery Problems Patented View
17806021 Airport Information Updates Based On Machine-Learning Models Patented View
17863116 Cloud Resource Management Abandoned View
17499432 Determining A Fit-For-Purpose Rating For A Target Process Automation Patented View
18454223 Notification Method, Vehicle Managment System Abandoned View
17587661 Modeling Provisioning Of Network-Based Services Using Statecharts Abandoned View
17252651 Methods And Systems To Determine A Service Time For Providing A Service Patented View
17818521 Monitoring Of Flow Units Abandoned View
16944428 Dynamically Generating Geospatial-Based-Proportion Metrics Based On Transportation Events Relative To Geocoded Areas Patented View
17504176 Technology Change Confidence Rating Patented View
17700644 Task Assignment In Autonomous Mobile Devices Abandoned View
18101400 System For Collecting And Analyzing Equipment Telematic Data Patented View
18211404 Route Stacking In A Fleet Routing System Patented View
18064510 Determining Chronotypes Of Users For Display Within A Scheduling Interface Patented View
17110076 Automatic Mapping Application For Service Providers Patented View
17431687 Methods For Information Processing, Device, And Computer Storage Medium For The Same Abandoned View
17895947 System And Method For Predictive Curation, Production Infrastructure, And Personal Content Assistant Abandoned View
17125739 System And Method For Managing On-Demand Service Data Collections Abandoned View
18751257 Method For Determining Smart Gas Work Order Set Allocation Plan And Internet Of Things System Thereof Patented View
17548476 Systems And Methods For Identifying, Quantifying, And Mitigating Risk Patented View
18149645 Methods And Internet Of Things Systems For Optimizing Metro Operation Scheduling In Smart City Patented View
17452932 Determining Component And Service Recommendations During An Electric Charge Abandoned View
17644701 Vehicle Allocation Management Method And Vehicle Allocation Management Device Patented View
17967829 Optimized Lead Generation, Management, Communication, And Tracking System Patented View
17822190 Methods And Systems For Conducting Pairing Processes To Identify Transport Sources Abandoned View
17346190 Method And System Of Evaluating A Constellation Spare Strategy Based On A Stochastic Time Petri Net Abandoned View
18036265 System And Method For Bipartite Matching Patented View
18378335 Systems And Methods For Determining Vehicle Vocations Abandoned View
18664056 Intelligent Analysis Method For Operational Supervision Of Public Transportation Industry And System Thereof Patented View
17514823 Efficient Vtol Resource Management In An Aviation Transport Network Patented View
16779600 Dynamic Processing Of Electronic Messaging Data And Protocols To Automatically Generate Location Predictive Retrieval Using A Networked, Multi-Stack Computing Environment Patented View
17360277 Vendor Risk Assessment Using Internet Telemetry Patented View
17618862 Regularized Spatiotemporal Dispatching Value Estimation Abandoned View
17419661 Self-Learning Based Mechanism For Vehicle Utilization And Optimization Patented View
17219923 Planning Device, Planning Method, And Recording Medium Abandoned View
17369599 Method And Apparatus For Using Pedestrian Probe Data For Ridesharing Services Patented View
17573322 Information Processing Apparatus, Non-Transitory Storage Medium, And Information Processing Method Abandoned View
17973675 System And Method For Maritime Vessel Risk Assessment In Response To Maritime Visual Events Patented View
15913861 Method And System For Selective Data Visualization And Posting Of Supply Chain Information To A Blockchain Abandoned View
17365954 Adaptive Scheduling Of Electronic Messaging Based On Predictive Consumption Of The Sampling Of Items Via A Networked Computing Platform Patented View
16023003 Real-Time Analytics And Interfaces Patented View
17208671 Land Usage Property Identification Method, Apparatus, Electronic Device And Storage Medium Abandoned View

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