Examiner Rodriguez Joseph C

3653-RODRIGUEZ-JOSEPH-C

Employment Information

Art Unit:3653 — Sheet feeding or delivering
Group:3650 — Material and Article Handling
Classes: 209 — Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications
241 — Solid material comminution or disintegration
701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
414 — Material or article handling
422 — Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing
435 — Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
210 — Liquid purification or separation
382 — Image analysis
588 — Hazardous or toxic waste destruction or containment
Phone:(571) 272-3692
Email:joseph.rodriguez@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:26 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

48
3-Year Grant rate: 79% over 429 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 48th

With Examiner Rodriguez, you have a 79% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Rodriguez is a medium examiner and in the 48th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Rodriguez, 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 Rodriguez's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3653 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Rodriguez 1.4
Art Unit 3653 1.2

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Rodriguez has granted 275 of 357 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 77%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Rodriguez has granted 64 of 72 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 89%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Rodriguez, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 16%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18301193 Path Setting System, Path Setting Method, And Software Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18989971 System And Method To Make Compliant Rows Of Wood Pieces To Be Packaged Patented View
18052139 Methods, Apparatuses And Computer Program Products For Providing A Dynamic Clearance System For Depalletizing Objects Patented View
18116402 Multidirectional Robotic Shelf Restocking System Patented View
18096876 Storage Positioning Device Abandoned View
18782825 Machine To Receive Food Containers To Be Reused Abandoned View
18512978 Wellsite Wet Screening Systems For Proppants And Methods Of Using Same Abandoned View
18718824 Method And Device For Sorting Silicon Fragments Patented View
18174822 Tow Dolly Mount Apparatus Patented View
18847993 Slack Separation Apparatus And Method Patented View
17964658 Systems And Methods For Providing Detection Via Transfer Of Objects Patented View
18182977 Systems And Methods For Payload Shuttles For Efficiently Loading And Unloading Containers Patented View
18710061 Installation Intended To Separate, In An Electric Field, The Components Of A Mixture Of Fibres And Granules Using A Tribocharger Provided With A Grating For The Selective Confinement Of Said Components Patented View
18419482 Wellsite Wet Screening System For Proppants And Methods Of Using Same Abandoned View
18397436 Systems And Methods For Sorting Golf Balls Having A Radar Detectable Mark Patented View
17759458 Particulate Plastic Solids Handling Apparatus And Methods Patented View
17920039 Automatic Hoisting And Transporting Method For Tower Crane Patented View
18005182 Conveyance Device And Slider Position Detecting Device Patented View
18828026 Fluid And Solid Material Separator Patented View
18027204 Remote-Controllable Lifting And/or Transporting Arrangement Patented View
18122588 Inspection, Sorting, And Pyrolysis Of Plastic Feeds Abandoned View
18356191 Methods And Systems For Smart Battery Collection, Sorting, And Packaging Abandoned View
17994888 Method And System For Classifying Additive Manufactured Objects Patented View
18920976 Method And Apparatus For Washing And Grading Sand Patented View
18914464 Methods And Systems For Sorting And Imaging Insects Abandoned View
18624379 Systems, Apparatuses, And Methods For Cell Sorting And Flow Cytometry Abandoned View
18716287 Method For Feeding Parcels Onto A Sorting Conveyor Using A Gripper Robot With Suction Cups And An Integrated Camera Patented View
18218490 System And Process For Sorting And Recovery Of Recyclable Materials From Mixed Municipal Solid Waste Patented View
18592751 Systems And Methods For Providing For The Processing Of Objects In Vehicles Patented View
17168081 Methods And Devices For Multi-Step Cell Purification And Concentration Patented View
18701751 Inspection Unit For Cans And Method For Determining The Quality Of Cans Patented View
18304052 Solar Module Recycling And Testing Patented View
18925767 Method And System For Cleaning Sand Patented View
18639182 Sorting Apparatus And Sorting Method Abandoned View
17417073 System And Method For Four Dimensionally Separating Materials Patented View
18704818 Waste Sorting Robot Abandoned View
18309538 Electrostatic Particle Collector Patented View
18470681 Screw Detection Device Patented View
18442451 Solar Module Recycling And Testing Patented View
18399477 Systems And Methods For High Throughput Sorting Patented View
18018455 Classification System Using Fluidized Bed Patented View
18552596 Chicken Egg Sorter And Method For Utilizing Information Available From Measuring Unit Abandoned View
18110423 Refractory Material With Taggant To Enable Identification Of Material During Reclaiming Process Patented View
17918332 Elevator Charging System, Elevator Management Server, Moving Body, Moving Body Server, Elevator Charging Method, And Storage Medium Patented View
18412140 Apparatuses, Methods, And Systems For Vibratory Screening Patented View
18924407 Method And System For Recovering, Processing, And Transporting Sand For Well Fracturing Patented View
18630170 Vacuum-Based End Effector, System, And Method For Detecting Parcel Engagement And Classifying Parcels Using Audio Patented View
18567045 Optical Sorter Abandoned View
18595586 Magnetic Field Gradient Apparatus And Apparatus For Separation Patented View
18552861 Paper Sheet Processing System, Paper Sheet Processing Method, And Program Patented View

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