Examiner Walker Michael J

3627-WALKER-MICHAEL-J

Employment Information

Art Unit:3627 — 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
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

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

83
3-Year Grant rate: 46% over 171 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 83rd

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).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

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.

Comparison with Art Unit 3627

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

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Walker has granted 35 of 104 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 34%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Walker has granted 43 of 67 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 64%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Walker, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 88%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

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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