Examiner Foster Nicholas L

3675-FOSTER-NICHOLAS-L

Employment Information

Art Unit:3675 — Closure fasteners
Group:3670 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware
Classes: 277 — Seal for a joint or juncture
411 — Expanded, threaded, driven, headed, tool-deformed, or locked-threaded fastener
138 — Pipes and tubular conduits
285 — Pipe joints or couplings
384 — Bearings
415 — Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps
137 — Fluid handling
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Email:Available with subscription
Title:Pat Examnr Nuclr Engrg
Service:16 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

27
3-Year Grant rate: 87% over 359 cases
Difficulty: Easier
Difficulty Percentile: 27th

With Examiner Foster, you have a 87% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Foster is an easier examiner and in the 27th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Foster, 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 3675

Examiner Foster's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3675 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Foster 1.3
Art Unit 3675 1.6

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