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| 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 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 59% over 114 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Harder |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 73rd
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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).
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.
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 |
Examiner Devine has granted 33 of 72 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 46%.
Examiner Devine has granted 34 of 42 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 81%.
With Examiner Devine, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 76%.
| 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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