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  5. Art Unit 3688
  6. Examiner Preston

Examiner Preston Ashley D

3688-PRESTON-ASHLEY-D

Employment Information

Art Unit:3688 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
Group:3680 — Business Methods - Electronic Shopping and Health Care
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:(571) 272-4399
Email:ashley.preston@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr(Biomedical Engrg)
Service:8 years
Grade:GS-13

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

90
3-Year Grant rate: 31% over 124 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 90th

With Examiner Preston, you have a 31% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Preston 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 Preston, 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 3688

Examiner Preston's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3688 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Preston 3.0
Art Unit 3688 1.9

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Preston has granted 8 of 49 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 16%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Preston has granted 30 of 75 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 40%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Preston, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 150%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18357648 Methods And System For Automatic Population Of Item Recommendations In Retail Website In Response To Item Selections Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
17878404 Product Recommendation Method Patented View
18221204 Virtual Space Changing Apparatus, Virtual Space Changing Method, And Storage Medium Patented View
18209178 Method, Computer Program Product, And System For Automatic Creation Of Lists Of Items Organized Around Co-Occurrences Patented View
17260854 Determining Item Relevancy Abandoned View
17100343 System And Method For Facilitating Training Of A Prediction Model To Estimate A User Vehicle Damage Tolerance Abandoned View
18264169 Kit For Assisting With Online Purchases And Relative Use Method Abandoned View
18150025 Element In Connection With Concurrent Presentation During Server Operation Abandoned View
16776247 Enhanced Complementary Recommendation Abandoned View
18389516 System And Method For Determining Shopping Facilities Available For Order Pick Up Patented View
17633660 Virtual Fitting Provision Device And Provision Method Therefor Abandoned View
17904642 System Of Recommending Item, Method Of Recommending Item, Computer System, And Medium Abandoned View
17898117 System And Method For Providing An Automated Virtual Closet Abandoned View
16740015 Data-Driven Recommendation Engine Abandoned View
17589502 System And Method For Determining A Personalized Item Recommendation Strategy For An Anchor Item Abandoned View
18139507 Software Platform For Optimizing The Trade-In Value Of Vehicles And Method Of Use Thereof Abandoned View
17245323 Momentum Blended Recommendation Engine Abandoned View
17939550 System, Method, And Apparatus For The Integrated Sale And Rental Of Products Abandoned View
17695643 Method, System, And Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium For Frictionless Shopping Using Emitted Light Signals Patented View
17484932 User Attribute Preference Model Abandoned View
18749206 Systems And Methods For Analysis Of Wearable Items Of A Clothing Subscription Platform Abandoned View
17530183 Method, System, And Non-Transitory Computer Readable Storage Medium For A Browser Extension For Product Quality Patented View
17488011 Method, Device, And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium For Providing Augmented Reality-Based Makeup Product Sets In A Messaging System Patented View
18442466 Method, Computer Program Product, And System For Training A Machine Learning Model To Generate User Embeddings And Recipe Embeddings In A Common Latent Space For Recommending One Or More Recipes To A User Patented View
17415537 Method For Determining A Coloration Product Recommendation Abandoned View
17550950 Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium, And Method For Context-Based Content-Scoring For An Online Concierge System Patented View
17336121 Essential Accessory Recommendations Abandoned View
17500540 Feature Sensor Efficiency Optimization For Recommendation System Using Data Envelopment Analysis Abandoned View
17452732 Synchronizing Item Recommendations Across Applications Using Machine Learning Abandoned View
17163216 System And Method For Determining A Personalized Item Recommendation Strategy For An Anchor Item Abandoned View
17588099 Reducing Sample Selection Bias In A Machine Learning-Based Recommender Method, System, And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium Patented View
17543396 Systems And Method For Generating Recommendations Based On Location-Based, Item Similarities Patented View
17163380 System, Method, And Non-Transitory Computer Readable Storage Medium, For Diversifying Complementary Item Recommendations Based On User Preferences Patented View
18480076 System And Method For Integrated Retail And Ecommerce Shopping Platforms Patented View
16693136 Method, Non-Transitory Machine-Readable Medium, And System For Identifying Comparable Entities Using Machine Learning And Profile Graphs Patented View
18322138 Automobile Telephone Processing System For A Vehicle Abandoned View
17839644 Methods And System For Initiating A Virtual Try-On Application Running On A Computer System And Providing Interactive Augmented Reality (Ar) Graphics Patented View
17302960 Providing Entity Recommendations For Items Abandoned View
18392918 Apparatus And Method For Building A Shopping List With A Sensor Unit Abandoned View
18202192 System And Method For Multi-Tiered Query For Specialty Property Recommendations Abandoned View
17531399 Method And Systems For Recommending Product Bundles Patented View
16806447 Automated Product Localization Through Mobile Data Analysis Patented View
17163378 System, Method, And Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium For Generating Recommendations Patented View
16993468 Management Server For Automatic Ordering Of Consumable Items Patented View
17483469 System, Method, And Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium For Generating Recommendations Patented View
17163510 System And Method For Automatically Generating Similar Items Using Spectral Filtering Patented View
16586001 Method And Apparatus For Providing Recommendation Information For Item Abandoned View
16329355 A Method, Platform, And Device For Personalized Shopping Patented View
17471649 Commodity Recommendation Method, Server, Shopping Cart And Shopping System Patented View
17474251 Method And System For A Vendor Website Gui For Marketing Greeting Cards And Envelopes Patented View

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