Examiner Higgs Stella E

3681-HIGGS-STELLA-E

Employment Information

Art Unit:3681 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
Group:3680 — Business Methods - Electronic Shopping and Health Care
Classes: 705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
715 — Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing
726 — Information security
704 — Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression
700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications
707 — Data processing: database and file management or data structures
345 — Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
703 — Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation
Phone:(571) 270-5891
Email:stella.higgs@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:15 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

75
3-Year Grant rate: 56% over 110 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 75th

With Examiner Higgs, you have a 56% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Higgs is a harder examiner and in the 75th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Higgs, 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 3681

Examiner Higgs's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3681 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Higgs 1.8
Art Unit 3681 2.0

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