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| Art Unit: | 3629 — 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 |
| Phone: | (571) 270-1359 |
| Email: | None |
| Location: | None |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Indl Engrg |
| Service: | 17 years |
| Grade: | GS-13 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 23% over 121 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Extremely Hard |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 93rd
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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).
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.
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 |
Examiner Ballou has granted 12 of 68 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 18%.
Examiner Ballou has granted 16 of 53 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 30%.
With Examiner Ballou, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 67%.
| 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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