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| Art Unit: | 3679 — Pipe joints or couplings |
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| Group: | 3670 — Wells, Earth Boring/Moving/Working, Excavating, Mining, Harvesters, Bridges, Roads, Petroleum, Closures, Connections, and Hardware |
| Classes: |
285 — Pipe joints or couplings 126 — Stoves and furnaces 425 — Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus |
| Phone: | (571) 272-6223 |
| Email: | alexander.rufrano@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg |
| Service: | 6 years |
| Grade: | GS-11 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 45% over 125 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Very Hard |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 84th
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With Examiner Rufrano, you have a 45% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Rufrano is a very hard examiner and in the 84th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Rufrano, 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 Rufrano's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3679 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Rufrano | 2.3 |
| Art Unit 3679 | 1.6 |
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