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| Art Unit: | 3627 — 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 706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence 718 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 463 — Amusement devices: games 703 — Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 222 — Dispensing |
| Phone: | (303) 297-4407 |
| Email: | michael.walker@uspto.gov |
| Location: | CO 80294 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg |
| Service: | 8 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 46% over 171 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Very Hard |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 83rd
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With Examiner Walker, you have a 46% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Walker is a very hard examiner and in the 83rd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Walker, 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 Walker's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3627 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Walker | 1.5 |
| Art Unit 3627 | 1.7 |
Examiner Walker has granted 35 of 104 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 34%.
Examiner Walker has granted 43 of 67 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 64%.
With Examiner Walker, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 88%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18107303 | Automated Resource Prioritization Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Patented | View |
| 18143502 | 3d Hybrid Bonding 3d Memory Devices With Npu/cpu For Ai Inference Application | Patented | View | |
| 18654034 | Information Processing Device, Planning Method, And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium | Abandoned | View | |
| 18346641 | Personal Shopper Information Processing Method, Communication Device For Personal Shopping, And Information Processing Device For Personal Shopper Services | Abandoned | View | |
| 18174350 | Tree Seedling Inventory System | Patented | View | |
| 18685751 | System And Method For Supporting Execution Of Batch Production Using Reinforcement Learning | Patented | View | |
| 18250577 | Conveyance System And Conveyance Method | Abandoned | View | |
| 18678900 | Digital Image Management Of Drill Cuttings Images | Patented | View | |
| 18314051 | Analytics Rules Engine For Select Transaction Identification | Patented | View | |
| 18080118 | Predictive Inventory Availability | Patented | View | |
| 18600862 | Conveyance Plan Generation Method, Conveyance Plan Generation Apparatus, And Computer-Readable Storage Medium | Abandoned | View | |
| 18271375 | Systems And Methods For Completing A Remote Lottery Ticket Sales Transaction Via Receiving Payment At A Point Of Sale | Patented | View | |
| 18043032 | System And Method For Tracking Inventory Items | Patented | View | |
| 18442744 | Method For Real-Time Transfer Of Funds Between Customer And Seller Including Generating Accounting Entries | Abandoned | View | |
| 18183884 | Transaction Processing System, Transaction Processing Apparatus, And Information Processing Method | Abandoned | View | |
| 18175720 | Dynamic Guardrail Adjustments For A Multi-Armed Bandit Model | Patented | View | |
| 18659781 | Methods And Apparatus For Locating Rfid Tags | Patented | View | |
| 18676068 | Rfid Detection Of Articles Without A Database | Abandoned | View | |
| 18462831 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, Computer-Readable Storage Medium, And System | Abandoned | View | |
| 18214349 | Item Return For Customized Retail Environments | Patented | View | |
| 17955393 | Customized Retail Environments | Patented | View | |
| 18323650 | Order Fulfillment Using Store Sections | Abandoned | View | |
| 18131914 | Systems And Methods For Predicting Defective Bins In An Inventory System | Patented | View | |
| 18275938 | Information Processing Apparatus, Article Management System, And Article Management Method | Patented | View | |
| 17751897 | Laboratory System | Patented | View | |
| 16429820 | Method, System And Apparatus For Detecting Product Facings | Patented | View | |
| 18267634 | Detection System, Detection Method, And Storage Medium | Patented | View | |
| 17307823 | Automated Billing Verification System | Abandoned | View | |
| 18257055 | Method And System For Inventorying Items, Robot Control Apparatus And Robot | Patented | View | |
| 17812801 | System And Method For Pairing Devices To Establish Device Groups | Patented | View | |
| 17557936 | Scan Avoidance Prevention System | Patented | View | |
| 17775180 | System And Method For Generating Cue Sheets | Abandoned | View | |
| 18191358 | Monocular Depth Prediction And Occupancy Correction Systems And Methods For Item Stow Processes | Patented | View | |
| 17727229 | Information Processing Device And Method | Patented | View | |
| 18330583 | System And Method For Providing A Spend Memory Record | Patented | View | |
| 18204200 | Detection And Remediation Of Improper Value Modification Using Machine Learning | Patented | View | |
| 18641522 | Systems And Methods For Checking And Confirming The Purchase Of Merchandise Items | Patented | View | |
| 18131875 | Blockchain-Enabled Secure Information Payload Packet (Sipp) Technology For Real-Time Multi-Tier Data Sharing Within Multi-Party Systems | Patented | View | |
| 18032805 | Federated Currency Payment Exchange System | Abandoned | View | |
| 18640311 | Integration Of Transaction Status Indications | Patented | View | |
| 18250040 | Method And Apparatus For Logistics Management Using Quantum Computing | Patented | View | |
| 18016583 | Item Circulation Tracking Processing Method, Device And Storage Medium | Abandoned | View | |
| 18607938 | Systems And Methods For Linking Atm To Retailer Transaction To Preserve Anonymity | Patented | View | |
| 17689551 | Information Processing Device, Information Processing Method, Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium, And Information Processing System | Patented | View | |
| 18073732 | Financial Transaction System And Medium Management Method In The Financial Transaction System | Abandoned | View | |
| 18252725 | Interactive Payment Card Processing System With Application Services | Abandoned | View | |
| 17528179 | Methods And Apparatus For Reducing Food Waste | Abandoned | View | |
| 17015441 | Facilitating Payment With Smartphone, At Point Of Sale, Of Amount Owed Plus Automatically Calculated Gratuity | Abandoned | View | |
| 18628864 | Controlling Processor's Access To Interface Device | Patented | View | |
| 18586296 | Systems And Methods Of Merging Retail Products Between Containers To Optimize Storing Capacity Of Retail Storage Facilities | Patented | View |
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