Examiner Melton Todd M

3669-MELTON-TODD-M

Employment Information

Art Unit:3669 — 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
705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
246 — Railway switches and signals
382 — Image analysis
702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
439 — Electrical connectors
Phone:(571) 270-3871
Email:todd.melton@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Computer Science
Service:14 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

16
3-Year Grant rate: 91% over 397 cases
Difficulty: Very Easy
Difficulty Percentile: 16th

With Examiner Melton, you have a 91% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Melton is a very easy examiner and in the 16th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Melton, 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 3669

Examiner Melton's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3669 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Melton 0.8
Art Unit 3669 1.5

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