Examiner Butler Rodney A

3666-BUTLER-RODNEY-A

Employment Information

Art Unit:3666 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Group:3660 — VCaR - Robot Control, Vehicle Navigation and Data Processing: Vehicles and Relative Location
Classes: 701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications
441 — Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
180 — Motor vehicles
303 — Fluid-pressure and analogous brake systems
Phone:(313) 446-6513
Email:rodney.butler@uspto.gov
Location:MI 48207
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:13 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

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3-Year Grant rate: 90% over 584 cases
Difficulty: Very Easy
Difficulty Percentile: 20th

With Examiner Butler, you have a 90% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Butler is a very easy examiner and in the 20th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Butler, 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 3666

Examiner Butler's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3666 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Butler 1.2
Art Unit 3666 1.6

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Butler has granted 396 of 448 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 88%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Butler has granted 129 of 136 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 95%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Butler, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 8%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18032873 Evaluation System, Evaluation Method, And Evaluation Program Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Abandoned View
18390810 Battery Management System And Vehicle Patented View
18236445 Electric Work Vehicle And Power Take-Off Control Method Patented View
17787375 Coasting Operation For A Vehicle With A Hybrid Drive Patented View
18401992 Simplification Of Cloud Resource Provisioning Using Default Wrappers Patented View
18703259 Display Control Device, Head-Up Display Device, And Display Control Method Patented View
17969840 Method For Operating A Soil Processing Machine Patented View
18438890 Navigation System For Underwater Vehicles Patented View
18337595 Warehousing Robot Control Method, Apparatus, Device, And Storage Medium Patented View
18761185 Systems And Methods For Charging Multiple Electric Vehicles Patented View
18747274 Control System, And Control Method Patented View
18338120 Smart Lawnmower With Development Of Mowing Policy And System And Method For Use Of Same Patented View
18611200 System And Server Patented View
18783635 Apparatus And Method For A Virtual Visual Experience In Electric Vehicles Patented View
18268541 Mobile Body Control System, Mobile Body, And Mobile Body Control Method Abandoned View
18737620 Straddle Vehicle And Vehicle Control Method Patented View
18351611 Method And System For Providing Traffic Accident Information Patented View
18455100 Platform Apparatuses Patented View
18657324 Automatic Robotically Steered Sensor For Targeted High Performance Perception And Vehicle Control Patented View
18335834 Autonomous Replenishment Of Resources Patented View
18561272 Driver Assistance System, Vehicle, And Recording Medium Recording Computer Program Patented View
18008905 Method And Device For Displaying Screen Depending Upon Indoor Positioning Patented View
18473444 Attention Calling System And Attention Calling Method Patented View
18541232 Method And System For Navigation Of A Vehicle Patented View
18536507 Road Hazard Relaying System Abandoned View
18238399 Incident Data Determination Based On Sensor Data Patented View
18498174 Method And System For Energy Distribution In A Vehicle Abandoned View
18531353 Information Verification For Location Mapping Abandoned View
18490890 Network System, A User Device And Methods Therein For Enabling Management Of A Mass Excavation Project Patented View
17976008 Visibility Of Work Implement Using Augmented Reality Patented View
18418896 Control Apparatus And Program Abandoned View
18696260 Mining Automation System Operation Zone Control Patented View
18222075 Vehicle Thermal Runaway Warning Method, Device, Electronic Equipment, And Readable Storage Medium Patented View
18405541 Systems And Methods For Identifying Map Geospatial Features Patented View
18247208 Computer Program, Determination Device, And Determination Method Patented View
18325115 Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, And Vehicle Patented View
18284620 Image Irradiation Device Abandoned View
18520049 Marine Navigation Systems, Methods, And User Interfaces Patented View
18337185 Method And Device For Controlling A Battery Used In Electric Vehicle Patented View
18579933 Failure Prediction System, Failure Prediction Method, And Failure Prediction Program Patented View
17226855 Vehicle Control Device And Vehicle Control Method Patented View
17449317 Shovel And Construction System Patented View
18427040 System And Method For Energy-Aware Flight Mission Planning And Control Abandoned View
18592960 Vehicle System Patented View
18072117 Local Vector Map Patented View
18631397 Driver Guidance For Guided Maneuvering Patented View
18453273 System And Method For Aligning And Pairing A Charging Station To An Electric Vehicle Patented View
18496285 Autonomous Transport Vehicle And Health Assessment Method Therefor Patented View
18275927 Battery Management System, Battery Management Method, And Terminal Device Abandoned View
18466758 Dynamic Path Routing Using Aerial Images Patented View

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