Examiner Ratcliffe Luke D

3645-RATCLIFFE-LUKE-D

Employment Information

Art Unit:3645 — Optics: measuring and testing
Group:3640 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
Classes: 356 — Optics: measuring and testing
701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
367 — Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices
348 — Television
257 — Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes)
219 — Electric heating
702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
345 — Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems
382 — Image analysis
359 — Optical: systems and elements
Phone:(571) 272-3110
Email:luke.ratcliffe@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:21 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

17
3-Year Grant rate: 91% over 589 cases
Difficulty: Very Easy
Difficulty Percentile: 17th

With Examiner Ratcliffe, you have a 91% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Ratcliffe is a very easy examiner and in the 17th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Ratcliffe, 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 3645

Examiner Ratcliffe's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3645 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Ratcliffe 1.5
Art Unit 3645 1.3

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