Examiner Kang Timothy J

3689-KANG-TIMOTHY-J

Employment Information

Art Unit:3689 — 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
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
707 — Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Phone:(571) 272-8069
Email:timothy.kang@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:9 years
Grade:GS-13

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

82
3-Year Grant rate: 47% over 176 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 82nd

With Examiner Kang, you have a 47% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Kang is a very hard examiner and in the 82nd percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Kang, 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 3689

Examiner Kang's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3689 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Kang 2.1
Art Unit 3689 2.3

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Kang has granted 37 of 84 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 44%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Kang has granted 46 of 92 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 50%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Kang, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 14%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18155671 Identification Of Items In An Image And Recommendation Of Similar Enterprise Products Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18905659 Roadside Assistance System And Method Abandoned View
16100568 Comparative Ranking System Abandoned View
17661407 Method And System For Facilitating Electronic Transactions Abandoned View
17814504 Personalized Item Recommendations Using A Hyper-Convolutional Model Abandoned View
17569271 Qualitative Commodity Matching Patented View
17722755 Embeddable Recommendation System For Cannabis Strains And Products Abandoned View
17462767 Selecting Items For An Online Concierge System User To Include In An Order To Achieve One Or More Nutritional Goals Of The User Abandoned View
18262364 Processing Device, Processing Method, And Processing Program Abandoned View
17564222 Method And Device To Provide Multi-Subscription Service Abandoned View
18304205 Automatically Generating And Operating An Item Transfer Mechanism That Is Integrated Into An Expert's Online Presence Abandoned View
17078823 System For Facilitating Customer Interactions In Fitting Rooms Abandoned View
18160645 Performing Predictive Inferences Using Multiple Predictive Models Abandoned View
17147344 Systems And Methods For Providing Personalized Recommendations Abandoned View
18435437 Item Level Data Determination Device, Method, And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Media Patented View
17868616 Assistance Method For Assisting In Provision Of Ec Abroad, And Program Or Assistance Server For Assistance Method Patented View
17682600 System And Method For Automated Generation Of Sales Proposals Abandoned View
17580763 Device And Method For Selling Information Processing Device Patented View
18098101 Method And System For Anonymous Negotiations Between Parties Abandoned View
17581635 Systems And Methods For Recommendation System Analysis Patented View
18097750 Authentic Review Identification And Display Abandoned View
17853860 Consumable Material Map Generation System Abandoned View
17332786 Customize A Virtual Store Based On Buyer Preferences And Movement Abandoned View
17586499 Coordinated Processing Of Food Ordering Based On Media Content Presentation Patented View
17328130 Smart Shelves Abandoned View
17768076 Commodity Display Device, Commodity Display Program, And Commodity Display Method Abandoned View
18404503 Method, System, And Non-Transitory Computer Readable Storage Medium Of Distributed Transaction Processing Patented View
18008432 Economies Of Scale Aware Resource Distribution Abandoned View
18051681 Systems And Methods For Generating Virtual Tags For Items In A Physical Environment Patented View
17589657 Time Sensitive Item-To-Item Recommendation System And Method Abandoned View
17085535 Advisor Interface Systems And Methods Abandoned View
17589541 Systems And Methods For Generating Ordered Personalized Item Recommendations Based On Database Entry Categories Abandoned View
15915009 System And Method For Adjusting Custom Topical Agents Patented View
18101305 Shopping Trip Planner Abandoned View
18085504 System, Method, And Computer Program For Providing Similar Product Recommendations For Non-Merchant Publishers Based On Publisher Preferences Patented View
17963420 Methods And Systems For Communicating Across Multiple Procurement Platforms Abandoned View
17449356 Machine Learning Model Prediction Of Interest In An Object Abandoned View
17373034 System And Apparatus For Geo-Location Based Data Analysis Abandoned View
16527130 Method And System For A Recommendation Engine Utilizing Progressive Labeling And User Content Enrichment Abandoned View
17976561 Advisor Interface Systems And Methods Abandoned View
17823092 Goods And Services Marketplace And Method Thereof Abandoned View
17451842 Method For Providing Digital Content Abandoned View
17723511 Curated Collections From Multiple Input Sources Abandoned View
17822910 Non-Transitory Computer Readable Storage Medium, System, And Method Of Auction Management Patented View
17899808 Systems And Methods For Location Sensing For Purchases Abandoned View
17393771 Method For Enhancing A User's Image While E-Commerce Shopping For The Purpose Of Enhancing The Item That Is For Sale Abandoned View
17373011 Systems And Methods For Monitoring Delivery Compliance Times Of Online Orders Abandoned View
17181489 Connector Configurator Patented View
17748923 Method, Electronic Device, And Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium For Providing Information On Item Patented View
17478737 System And Method For Social Style Mapping Abandoned View

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