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| Art Unit: | 3653 — Sheet feeding or delivering |
|---|---|
| Group: | 3650 — Material and Article Handling |
| Classes: |
198 — Conveyors: power-driven 406 — Conveyors: fluid current 193 — Conveyors, chutes, skids, guides, and ways 414 — Material or article handling 422 — Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing 700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications 209 — Classifying, separating, and assorting solids 219 — Electric heating 244 — Aeronautics and astronautics 118 — Coating apparatus |
| Phone: | (571) 270-5386 |
| Email: | william.harp@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg |
| Service: | 18 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 90% over 488 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Very Easy |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 20th
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With Examiner Harp, you have a 90% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Harp is a very easy examiner and in the 20th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Harp, 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 Harp's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3653 and higher than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Harp | 1.1 |
| Art Unit 3653 | 1.2 |
Examiner Harp has granted 390 of 438 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 89%.
Examiner Harp has granted 48 of 50 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 96%.
With Examiner Harp, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 8%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18366420 | Apparatus For Transferring And Accumulating Objects And Packaging Line Comprising Said Apparatus | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Patented | View |
| 18240181 | Device For Adjusting Center Of Gravity | Patented | View | |
| 18491895 | Retaining Unit For Retaining A Container And Retaining Device And Apparatus Comprising Said Retaining Unit | Patented | View | |
| 18205853 | Conveyor Drive Roller With Pressure Relief Means | Patented | View | |
| 18681877 | Battery Conveyor Belt | Patented | View | |
| 18641989 | Device And Method For Separating Piece Goods | Patented | View | |
| 18330389 | Removal Device For Automatically Removing Flexible Material Parts, Method For Removing Flexible Material Parts, And Production System Comprising A Conveyor Device And A Removal Device | Patented | View | |
| 18657629 | Receptacle Transport System For An Analytical System | Patented | View | |
| 18539916 | Garbage Receptacle Transport Assembly | Patented | View | |
| 18851491 | Cellular Wheel Sluice For Bulk Material, And Method For Automatically Clearing A Cellular Wheel Of Such A Cellular Wheel Sluice | Patented | View | |
| 18647551 | System And Method For Automated Sortation | Patented | View | |
| 18580605 | Cart With Tiltable Platform | Abandoned | View | |
| 18381349 | Disperser, Dryer, And Storage Bin | Abandoned | View | |
| 18555522 | Conveyor Roller | Abandoned | View | |
| 18556996 | A Blockage Clearing System For A Multi-Story Building Chute System | Abandoned | View | |
| 18446307 | Gate Valve, Module With A Valve And System For Conveying Of Bulk Goods With Valves | Abandoned | View | |
| 18474987 | Aircraft Evacuation Slides | Patented | View | |
| 17873539 | Pipe Of A Blowing Machine | Patented | View | |
| 18267006 | System And Method For Controlling Conveyor System Tension | Patented | View | |
| 18044450 | System For Conveying Pasta | Patented | View | |
| 18485743 | Substrate Processing Apparatus | Patented | View | |
| 18417432 | Flow Regulating Conveyance Apparatus, System And Method | Patented | View | |
| 18472041 | Slide Pack Growth Detection Method Of Evacuation Slides Or Slide/rafts | Patented | View | |
| 18511571 | Gunite Feed Wheel | Patented | View | |
| 18001735 | Tube-Carrier Based Logistics System And Method For Performing Logistics Services With Such System | Patented | View | |
| 18528430 | Feeding Device For Guiding And Providing One-Piece Ties | Patented | View | |
| 17926536 | Automatic Distribution Wall | Patented | View | |
| 18122880 | Pneumatic Conveyance System And Method | Abandoned | View | |
| 18121501 | Systems And Methods For Handling Particulate Material | Abandoned | View | |
| 17873776 | Hybrid Powder Feed Device | Abandoned | View | |
| 18245568 | Roller Conveyor With End Stop | Patented | View | |
| 17681428 | Systems And Methods For Silica Dust Reduction At Well Sites | Patented | View | |
| 18043957 | Paper Sheet Transport System And Restoration Method | Patented | View | |
| 17966531 | Overhead Conveyor, And Workpiece Conveying Method Using Overhead Conveyor | Patented | View | |
| 18592344 | Receptacle Transport System For An Analytical System | Patented | View | |
| 18429170 | Receptacle Delivery System | Patented | View | |
| 18604267 | Conveyor Assembly And Method Of Using The Same | Patented | View | |
| 17999438 | Apparatus For Moving And Sorting Articles | Patented | View | |
| 18220733 | Conveyor With Towable Elevating Carriage | Patented | View | |
| 17303904 | Center Tracking Dual Synchronous Belt System | Patented | View | |
| 18634624 | Pneumatic Transport System Landing Device | Patented | View | |
| 17788108 | Store Outlet | Abandoned | View | |
| 18246260 | Handrail Tension Monitoring Device For A Passenger Transport System | Patented | View | |
| 18607933 | Automated Workpiece Inversion Systems And Related Methods | Patented | View | |
| 18097543 | Chiplet Loader For Microassembler | Patented | View | |
| 18243433 | Substrate Transfer Systems And Methods Of Use Thereof | Patented | View | |
| 18173439 | Curved Belt Conveyor | Patented | View | |
| 17710540 | Organic Material Handling System Storage Module | Patented | View | |
| 17947854 | Agitator Drive System For A Product Metering System | Patented | View | |
| 18399000 | System And Method For Automated Sortation | Patented | View |
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