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| Art Unit: | 3624 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination |
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| 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 701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location 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 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 33% over 133 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Very Hard |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 89th
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With Examiner Koester, you have a 33% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Koester is a very hard examiner and in the 89th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
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.
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 | 2.3 |
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