Examiner Devine Molly K

3653-DEVINE-MOLLY-K

Employment Information

Art Unit:3653 — Sheet feeding or delivering
Group:3650 — Material and Article Handling
Classes: 209 — Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
241 — Solid material comminution or disintegration
226 — Advancing material of indeterminate length
198 — Conveyors: power-driven
414 — Material or article handling
422 — Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing
435 — Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
536 — Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
210 — Liquid purification or separation
144 — Woodworking
Phone:(571) 270-7205
Email:molly.devine@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:6 years
Grade:GS-13

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

73
3-Year Grant rate: 59% over 114 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 73rd

With Examiner Devine, you have a 59% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Devine is a harder examiner and in the 73rd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Devine, 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 3653

Examiner Devine's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3653 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Devine 2.5
Art Unit 3653 1.2

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Devine has granted 33 of 72 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 46%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Devine has granted 34 of 42 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 81%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Devine, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 76%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18199393 Classification Device And Shot Processing Device Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
17590497 Device For Manipulating Magnetic Beads And Assay Method Patented View
17426774 Plate Material Supplying Apparatus Patented View
18796398 Stacked-Package Detection System Patented View
18596833 Apparatus And Method For Automated Inspection Of Molded Pulp And Other Batch-Produced Products Patented View
18598728 Reconfigurable Sorting Facility Patented View
18533101 Slurry Magnetic Filter Apparatus And Cleaning Method Thereof Patented View
18687760 Sex Identification Service Provision System And Sex Identification Service Provision Method Abandoned View
18249247 Vibrating Screen Control Arrangements Abandoned View
19275807 Device To Sort A Mixed Solid Waste Stream Patented View
18816176 Production Process For Manufacture Of A Laminate Patented View
18714295 Separator Including Multi-Flow Drain Patented View
18695881 Foreign Material Removal System Patented View
18740966 Method For Processing A Biological Sample With Magnetic Particles Patented View
18656247 Aggregate Processing Systems, Methods And Apparatus Patented View
18811891 Adjustable Static Classifier Patented View
18724819 Device For Retaining And Removing Filaments Of Plastic Material Patented View
18617855 Magnetic Separation Device And Magnetic Separation Method Patented View
18848463 Staggered And Inter-Impinging Self-Cleaning Screening Device Patented View
18948644 Fruit And Vegetable Sorting And Conveying Device And Fruit And Vegetable Sorting Apparatus Patented View
18779591 Recycling Waste Refractory Material Patented View
18856761 Vibrating Screen For Screening Aggregates And/or Soils Patented View
18734698 Magnetic Sweeper Patented View
18562889 Split-Deck Screening Device For Screening Bulk Material Patented View
18274163 Method For Adjusting At Least One Parameter Of A Line For Sorting Objects Such As Fruit Or Vegetables, And Associated Sorting System Patented View
18144447 Method And Apparatus For Magnetically Sorting Biological Objects Patented View
18510306 Gravity Clean-Off Magnetic Sweeper Apparatus Patented View
17806034 Recycling System For The Utilization Of Reusable Objects Patented View
17753572 Conveyor With Selective Width Rejection System Patented View
16395097 Separator Assemblies And Methods Patented View
18848261 Particle Sorting System And Particle Sorting Method Abandoned View
18768098 Gold Panning Device Abandoned View
18722162 System For Sorting Objects Abandoned View
18682808 A Screen Attachment For A Screening Machine Abandoned View
18551301 Foreign Matter Removing Apparatus, Gypsum-Based Building Board Manufacturing Apparatus, And Foreign Matter Removing Method Abandoned View
18043208 Stretching-Shaft Screening Device For Separating Insects, In Particular Insect Larvae, Or Worms And Residual Material, And Use Of Such A Stretching-Shaft Screening Device Abandoned View
18546345 Plant And Method For Classifying Scrap Patented View
18609427 Fill Level Sensing Devices And Additive Manufacturing Apparatuses Including Same Patented View
17468220 System And Method For Robotic Horizontal Sortation Patented View
16465522 Apparatus And Method For Separating Materials Using Stratification Abandoned View
18549833 Waste Material Processing System Abandoned View
17796182 Connection Arrangement For A Screening Apparatus Abandoned View
18682283 Station For The Conveyance And Measurement Of Horticultural Products Patented View
18215928 Multi-Check In-Line Container Inspection System Patented View
18551021 Sorting Of Recycled Plastic Film Materials Abandoned View
18511447 Automated Golf Ball Sorting Apparatus With Image Recognition Technology Patented View
18469485 Automated Testing Of Sealable Bags Patented View
17843900 Processes And Structures For Recycling Carpet And Products Of Such Processes Patented View
18587225 System And Method For Enhanced Separation And Recovery Of Heavy Metals And Rare Earth Elements From Electronic Waste, Mining Residues, And Sediments Using Electronic Charge, Magnetic Beads, And Bubble Mechanisms Abandoned View
17756787 Electrostatic Separation Method For Foodstuff Abandoned View

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