Examiner Ballou Maame B

3629-BALLOU-MAAME-B

Employment Information

Art Unit:3629 — 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
Phone:(571) 270-1359
Email:None
Location:None
Title:Pat Examnr Indl Engrg
Service:17 years
Grade:GS-13

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

93
3-Year Grant rate: 23% over 121 cases
Difficulty: Extremely Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 93rd

With Examiner Ballou, you have a 23% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Ballou is an extremely hard examiner and in the 93rd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Ballou, 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 3629

Examiner Ballou's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3629 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Ballou 2.9
Art Unit 3629 2.3

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Ballou has granted 12 of 68 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 18%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Ballou has granted 16 of 53 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 30%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Ballou, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 67%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18097189 Merging User Structures Into A Multi-Line User Structure For Augmenting Distributions Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Abandoned View
17658890 Incident Management System Abandoned View
18516600 User Profile Creation For Social Networks Abandoned View
18046056 Systems And Methods For Using Employee Public Data To Identify And Confidence Score Recruitment Opportunities Abandoned View
18141171 Apparatus And A Method For Automatically Generating A Profile Evaluation Abandoned View
18328881 Document Term Recognition And Analytics Patented View
18625177 Methods And Systems For Managing Personnel Safety At Smart Gas Pipeline Network Stations Based On Internet Of Things Abandoned View
18144437 Apparatus And Methods For Managing Disciplinary Policies Patented View
17540149 Managing Conversations For Service Delivery Networks Abandoned View
16828634 Rich Communication Services Security Recruiting System Patented View
16960776 Information Processor, Information Procesing Method, And Recording Medium Abandoned View
17887623 Analytical Platform For Improving The Education Quality Abandoned View
17874289 Method For Estimating Service Value Spaces Of Wetland Ecosystems Abandoned View
18640663 Event-Based User Matching Abandoned View
17711456 Collaboration Support System, Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium, And Collaboration Support Method Abandoned View
17513938 System And Methods For Verifying Merchandise Authenticity Abandoned View
17963892 Systems And Methods For Automatically Indexing User Data For Unknown Users Abandoned View
17959879 Systems And Methods For Safe Social Gatherings During A Contagious Pandemic Abandoned View
17865174 Systems And Methods For Optimizing A Risk Assessment Process Abandoned View
18129253 Review Response Generation And Review Sentiment Analysis Patented View
17249428 Commerce Driven Feedback Mechanism For Consumer Products Patented View
16775915 Systems And Methods For Managing Entity Recommendations Abandoned View
17069572 Reputation Analysis Based On Citation Graph Abandoned View
17170968 System And Method For Reviewing A Product Or Service Abandoned View
16301429 Method For Conducting Statistics On Insurance Type State Information Of Policy, Terminal Device And Storage Medium Abandoned View
17459618 Systems And Methods For Computer-Aided Appraisal Abandoned View
17719145 Farmed Fish Tracking And Verification System Patented View
16914356 Methods And Systems For Creating A Digital Business Card Abandoned View
18298693 System And Method For Identity Verification Abandoned View
17421354 Information Providing Device, Information Providing System, Information Providing Method, And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium Storing Program Abandoned View
17493766 System And Method For Continuous Automated Universal Rating Aggregation And Generation Abandoned View
15709467 System And Method For Hosting A Social Network That Enables Granular Management Of The Privacy Of Posted Information Abandoned View
15663131 System And Apparatus For Detecting Forgery Features On Identification Documents Abandoned View
16821109 Demographically Congruous Reviews Abandoned View
16439015 User Recommendations And Reviews Using Autonomous Vehicle Information Patented View
17454177 Session Signatures Patented View
17580597 System And Methods For Service Provider Identification Abandoned View
16863814 Compensation Management System And Method Abandoned View
16188708 Content Display Based On User Relationship Patented View
16154327 System And Method For Determining Optimal Pathways To A Predetermined Goal Based On Database Analysis Patented View
17443503 Electronically Referring A Contact Without Divulging Contact Data Patented View
16863787 Compensation Management System And Method Abandoned View
16685425 Systems And Methods For Customization Of Reviews Abandoned View
17451856 Document Term Recognition And Analytics Patented View
16828983 Information Processing Apparatus, Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium, And Method Abandoned View
16420953 Personalized Product Review System Abandoned View
17329573 Reputation Management System And Method Thereof Abandoned View
15090269 Data Driven Hiring Filter Apparatus And Method Abandoned View
17183341 Systems And Method For Making Product Reviews And Ratings Abandoned View
16437082 System And Method For Predicting Organizational Outcomes Abandoned View

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