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| Art Unit: | 3645 — Optics: measuring and testing |
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| 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 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 91% over 589 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Very Easy |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 17th
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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).
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.
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 | |
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| Examiner Ratcliffe | 1.5 |
| Art Unit 3645 | 1.3 |
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