Examiner Ark Darren W

3647-ARK-DARREN-W

Employment Information

Art Unit:3647 — Aeronautics and astronautics
Group:3640 — Aeronautics, Agriculture, Fishing, Trapping, Vermin Destroying, Plant and Animal Husbandry, Weaponry, Nuclear Systems, and License and Review
Classes: 473 — Games using tangible projectile
361 — Electricity: electrical systems and devices
441 — Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
184 — Lubrication
Phone:(571) 272-6885
Email:darren.ark@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:31 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

78
3-Year Grant rate: 53% over 416 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 78th

With Examiner Ark, you have a 53% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Ark is a harder examiner and in the 78th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Ark, 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 3647

Examiner Ark's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3647 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Ark 1.9
Art Unit 3647 1.5

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