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  5. Art Unit 3627
  6. Examiner Chein

Examiner Chein Allen C

3627-CHEIN-ALLEN-C

Employment Information

Art Unit:3627 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
Group:3620 — Business Methods - Incentive Programs, Coupons; Operations Research; Electronic Shopping; Health Care; Point of Sale, Inventory, Accounting; Cost/Price, Reservations, Shipping and Transportation; Business Processing
Classes: 705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
235 — Registers
702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications
382 — Image analysis
709 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring
Phone:(571) 270-7985
Email:allen.chein@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Compr Engrg
Service:15 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

78
3-Year Grant rate: 53% over 144 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 78th

With Examiner Chein, you have a 53% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Chein is a harder examiner and in the 78th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Chein, 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 3627

Examiner Chein's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3627 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Chein 2.1
Art Unit 3627 1.7

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Chein has granted 35 of 74 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 47%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Chein has granted 41 of 70 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 59%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Chein, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 26%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17019058 Data Analytics Tool Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18410414 Medical Supply Cabinet With Medical Supply Contents Having Radio Frequency Identification Tags Abandoned View
18471401 System And Methods For Calculating Common Financial Valuation Measure With Negative Divisors (Earnings, Cash Flow, Book Value, Ebitda, Ebt And Etc.) Abandoned View
18201627 Dynamic Production Bill Of Materials System Patented View
18136513 Optimization Of Item Availability Prompts In The Context Of Non-Deterministic Inventory Data Patented View
18495786 Commodity Registration System Patented View
18107436 Intelligent Management Of Authorization Requests Patented View
18972098 System And Method For Establishing Unit Positioning And Status Via Actuation Devices, Unit-Unique Scannable Codes Embedded In Units, Proximal Electromagnetic Chips Embedded In Unit Storage Positions, And Dedicated Databases Abandoned View
18093702 Systems, Methods, And Apparatuses For Electronically, Initiating, Tracking And Completing Resource Replenishments With A Network Abandoned View
15957517 Online Home Affordability Tool Patented View
16247059 Global Optimizer For Supply Chain Patented View
19243934 Storage And Retrieval System Patented View
18272907 Out-Of-Stock Detection Apparatus, Out-Of-Stock Detection Method, And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium Abandoned View
18786544 Product Design And Manufacture Management System And Method Patented View
18223099 Image Based Pos System For The Fast Food Industry Abandoned View
18106167 Systems And Methods Of Controlling Point Of Sale Systems Patented View
18117234 Carbon Footprint Estimation Based On Bill Of Materials Abandoned View
17850694 Processing Messages In A Multi-Tier Environment Patented View
18977458 Validation System For Conveyor Patented View
18116921 Parts Procurement Support Device, Parts Procurement Support System, And Parts Procurement Support Method Abandoned View
17999150 Item Warehousing Method, Device And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium Abandoned View
17848160 System Of Matching Segmented Words To Check Correctness Of Components Of Device And Method Thereof Abandoned View
17523322 Medical Supply Cabinet With Medical Supply Contents Having Machine Readable Codes Patented View
18118731 Automated Logistics Transshipment Management System Abandoned View
17450596 Electronic Apparatus And Information Providing Method Thereof Abandoned View
15895507 Techniques For Secure Mobile Payment Abandoned View
18117424 System And Method For Classification Of Spend Data Abandoned View
17788443 An Automated Mobile Inventory System Patented View
17578150 System, Program Product, And Computer-Implemented Method For Loading A Loan On An Existing Pre-Paid Card Abandoned View
18190591 Category Classification Of Records Of E-Procurement Transactions Patented View
17715756 Methods And Systems For Inventory Planning And Control Patented View
16881809 Determining Rfid Tag Orientation For Virtual Shielding Abandoned View
17589723 Methods And Apparatus For Generating Planograms Patented View
17710745 Anomaly Detection For Bill Generation Patented View
18609953 Multi-Entity Platform Using Uniform Labeling Of Data Products And Services Abandoned View
17902086 Data Processing Systems And Methods For Transmitting And Modifying Data Via A Smart Data Cable Abandoned View
17390465 Deterministic Exception Handling For Item Identity Federation And Visibility As A Service Abandoned View
17871559 Systems And Methods For Inventory Monitoring Abandoned View
18396199 Systems And Methods To Utilize An Electronic Garage Shelf Patented View
17555948 Automated Equipment Tracking For Service Technicians Patented View
17736364 Systems And Methods For Linking High-Value Tokens Using A Low-Value Token Patented View
17574758 System And Method For Processing A Transaction Using Account Information On File Patented View
17899794 Smart Parts Bin Apparatus And System Abandoned View
17807942 Method And System For Automatically Routing One Or More Shipments In A Supply Chain Network Abandoned View
17631997 Merchandise Management System, Merchandise Management Method, Computer Program And Recording Medium Abandoned View
17732730 Expense-Type Audit Machine Learning Modeling System Patented View
17735980 Methods And Systems For Expense Management Abandoned View
17246505 Resource Consumption Rate And Consumption Level Control System Abandoned View
18449564 Multi-Protocol Data Transfer Abandoned View
17735366 System And Method For Tracking Wine In A Wine-Cellar And Monitoring Inventory Abandoned View

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