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| Art Unit: | 3627 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination |
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| 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 706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence 131 — Tobacco 700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications 702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing |
| Phone: | (571) 270-5599 |
| Email: | peter.ludwig@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg |
| Service: | 16 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 37% over 195 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Very Hard |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 88th
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With Examiner Ludwig, you have a 37% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Ludwig is a very hard examiner and in the 88th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Ludwig, 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 Ludwig's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3627 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Ludwig | 2.9 |
| Art Unit 3627 | 1.7 |
Examiner Ludwig has granted 17 of 86 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 20%.
Examiner Ludwig has granted 55 of 109 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 50%.
With Examiner Ludwig, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 150%.
| Number | Title | OA Rejections | Status | IFW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18463043 | System And Method For Calculating A Profit/loss Or A Surgery Center | Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. | Abandoned | View |
| 18460292 | Dynamic Store Feedback Systems For Directing Users | Abandoned | View | |
| 18230901 | Optimizing Supply Chains | Abandoned | View | |
| 17969602 | Methods And Apparatus For Image Capturing Inventory System | Abandoned | View | |
| 17582142 | Method For Providing Information Related To Item And Electronic Apparatus Using The Same | Abandoned | View | |
| 18128332 | System And Methods Associated With Retail Machine Configuration Utilizing Multiple Types Communication Networks | Abandoned | View | |
| 18272850 | System And Method For Facilitating Cigarette Sales And Cigarette Tracking | Abandoned | View | |
| 18698147 | Methods And Systems For Sending Invoices With Or As A Media Message | Abandoned | View | |
| 18222791 | Systems And Methods For A User Interface For Making Recommendations | Patented | View | |
| 18097008 | Self-Checkout System | Abandoned | View | |
| 17575532 | Registration Apparatus, Information Processing Apparatus, And Method | Abandoned | View | |
| 17960731 | Commodity Data Registration Apparatus And Payment System | Abandoned | View | |
| 16196902 | System And Method For E-Receipt Platform | Patented | View | |
| 18238942 | Drug Container Labeling Apparatus And Method For Distinguishing Between A Plurality Of Drug Containers | Abandoned | View | |
| 18053490 | Smart Contract Deployment For Dcf Trust Services Billing | Patented | View | |
| 17538183 | System Configuration For Learning And Recognizing Packaging Associated With A Product | Abandoned | View | |
| 18234975 | Method Of Fulfillment Orders And System Thereof | Abandoned | View | |
| 18453148 | System And Methods For Automated Management Of Consignment Cycles | Abandoned | View | |
| 17085322 | Computer Program, Method, And System For Automated Savings And Time-Based Matching Contributions | Patented | View | |
| 17976519 | Methods, Systems, Articles Of Manufacture And Apparatus To Regress Independent And Dependent Variable Data | Abandoned | View | |
| 18198032 | Modular Photo Kiosk System | Abandoned | View | |
| 16789386 | Closed Loop Multi-Party Feedback | Abandoned | View | |
| 18058886 | Charging Management Methods And Systems For Electric Vehicles | Abandoned | View | |
| 17985173 | Checkout Device And Program | Abandoned | View | |
| 17380378 | Management Of Reconciliation And Reporting Workflow Using Robotic Process Automation | Patented | View | |
| 17347026 | System And Method For Data Synchronization And Verification | Patented | View | |
| 17546301 | Carbon Cost Logistics System | Abandoned | View | |
| 18098924 | Cutting Machine Supplying And Marketing System And Method Thereof | Abandoned | View | |
| 18189980 | Item Based Path Development | Patented | View | |
| 17551235 | Self-Checkout Store | Patented | View | |
| 18118867 | Object Classification At Point Of Sale | Patented | View | |
| 17074092 | Information System For Industrial Vehicles Including Cyclical Recurring Vehicle Information Message | Patented | View | |
| 17922084 | Article Search Support System And Article Search Support Method | Abandoned | View | |
| 18314014 | Intelligent Image Recommendations | Patented | View | |
| 18086208 | Method And System For Converting A Recipe Into An Nft | Abandoned | View | |
| 16880850 | Monitoring Device And Monitoring System | Abandoned | View | |
| 17530421 | Generating Clusters Of Geographic Regions For Evaluation Of Different Conditions Based On Active Shoppers Fulfilling Orders In Different Geographic Regions | Abandoned | View | |
| 18030897 | Terminal Apparatus, Payment Method, And Program | Abandoned | View | |
| 17634363 | Elongated-Object Drum, Management Computer, And Elongated-Object Management System | Abandoned | View | |
| 17700286 | Community Influenced Approval Cycle Times In A Software-As-A-Service System | Patented | View | |
| 17513450 | Realtime, Interactive And Geographically Defined Computerized Personal Identification And Matching Methods | Abandoned | View | |
| 16750523 | Logical-To-Physical Production System Alignment And Development | Abandoned | View | |
| 17908815 | Method And Device For Goods Management | Abandoned | View | |
| 17364456 | Computer-Based Systems Involving Fingerprint Or Biometrically-Activated Transaction Cards And Methods Of Use Thereof | Abandoned | View | |
| 17711049 | Blockchain-Based Room Inventory Management System And Method | Patented | View | |
| 17989558 | Selectable Payroll Amounts For Instant Payroll Deposits | Abandoned | View | |
| 17314181 | Aggregating Information From Gig Economy Platforms For Analysis By Machine Learning Models | Abandoned | View | |
| 17445082 | Evaluating An Electronic Device Using A Wireless Charger | Patented | View | |
| 17432712 | Logistics Planner | Abandoned | View | |
| 18171624 | System And Method For Determining Product Theft Information Using Magnetic Sensors | Patented | View |
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