Examiner Bunker William B

3691-BUNKER-WILLIAM-B

Employment Information

Art Unit:3691 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
Group:3690 — Business Methods - Finance/Banking/ Insurance and Business Cryptography
Classes: 705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
713 — Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
726 — Information security
Phone:(571) 272-0017
Email:william.bunker@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:8 years
Grade:GS-13

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

46
3-Year Grant rate: 79% over 168 cases
Difficulty: Medium
Difficulty Percentile: 46th

With Examiner Bunker, you have a 79% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Bunker is a medium examiner and in the 46th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Bunker, 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 3691

Examiner Bunker's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3691 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Bunker 1.7
Art Unit 3691 1.6

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Bunker has granted 24 of 48 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 50%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Bunker has granted 108 of 120 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 90%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Bunker, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 80%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17063522 Biometric Data Sub-Sampling During Decentralized Biometric Authentication Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18244266 Techniques For Expediting Processing Of Blockchain Transactions Patented View
18642258 Bridging Network Transaction Platforms To Unify Cross-Platform Transfers Patented View
18497299 Systems And Methods For Least Cost Acquirer Routing For Pricing Models Patented View
18502968 Information Processing Method And Storage Medium Patented View
18609927 Systems And Methods For Resource Allocation Patented View
18435311 Direct Data Share Patented View
18664582 Transaction Based Authentication With Item-Level Data Patented View
18428889 Methods And Apparatuses For Ai Digital Assistants Abandoned View
18481640 Method Of Leasing Power Storage, Computer Apparatus, And Lease System Abandoned View
18393122 Systems And Methods For Integrating, Aggregating And Utilizing Data From A Plurality Of Data Sources Patented View
17872045 Method And System For Validating Financial Events And Security Events Patented View
17824688 Fraud Detection Systems And Methods Patented View
17828097 Management Methods And Systems For Electric Vehicle Charging Equipment Abandoned View
18305988 Systems And Methods For Generating Usage-Based Insurance Contracts For Peer-To-Peer Transactions Patented View
18224641 System And Method For Trading Distinct And Identifiable Portions Of A Physical Commodity Patented View
17710704 System And Method For Analyzing Transaction Nodes Using Visual Analytics Patented View
18449489 Systems And Methods For Detecting Out-Of-Pattern Transactions Patented View
18324859 Dynamic Generation Of Digital Messages With Unique Links For Direct To Merchant Payments Patented View
18497268 User Interfaces For Using Shared Databases For Managing Supplemental Payment Sources Patented View
18501240 Computer-Based Systems And Platforms And Computer-Implemented Methods Configured For Tracking Data Objects Behaviours And Utilizing Graphical User Interface Elements To Execute Numerous Electronic Activities With A Single Instruction Patented View
17956062 Systems And Methods For Using Shared Databases For Managing Supplemental Payment Sources Patented View
18123362 System, Method, And Computer Program Product For Generating Synthetic Data Patented View
18331728 Dynamically Displaying Contextual Information On A Smart Card Patented View
17956279 User Interfaces For Using Shared Databases For Managing Supplemental Payment Sources Patented View
17956934 Products And Processes For Order Distribution Abandoned View
18160716 Method, Apparatus, And Computer Program Product For Validating Electronic Distribution Transactions And Reducing Non-Compliant Electronic Distribution Transactions Patented View
17729634 System, Method, And Computer Program Product To Determine Cuisine Type Classifiers Patented View
17708055 Electronic Payment System, Electronic Payment Method, And Information Storage Medium Patented View
17885610 Atm Leveraging Edge Devices For Alternative Data Routing Patented View
17836993 Tax Return Document Generation Patented View
17315409 Multi-Phase Privacy-Preserving Inferencing In A High Volume Data Environment Patented View
16109545 Adverse Action Systems And Methods For Communicating Adverse Action Notifications For Processing Systems Using Different Ensemble Modules Patented View
17240595 Holistic Tracking And Monitoring Of Goals Abandoned View
18668087 Detecting Undesirable Activity Based On Matching Parameters Of Groups Of Nodes In Graphical Representations Patented View
17979351 Automated Decisioning Based On Predicted User Intent Patented View
17389532 Embedding Service For Unstructured Data Patented View
17319340 Method And System For Information Authentication Patented View
17900416 Automated Transaction Processing Based On Cognitive Learning Patented View
16672082 System And Method For Tcp-To-Multicast (T2m) Communications And Related Network Architecture Patented View
17717840 Anomaly And Fraud Detection With Fake Event Detection Using Pixel Intensity Testing Patented View
17717880 Anomaly And Fraud Detection With Fake Event Detection Using Pixel Intensity Testing Patented View
17463652 Rule Based Machine Learning For Precise Fraud Detection Patented View
17717811 Anomaly And Fraud Detection With Fake Event Detection Using Pixel Intensity Testing Patented View
17419613 Backend Architecture Method And System For Aggregate Payment, Computer Device, And Storage Medium Patented View
17660742 Omnichannel System And A Method For Providing Financial And Bank Services Abandoned View
17695755 Systems And Methods For Validating Asset Destinations In Blockchain Networks Patented View
17571244 Systems And Methods For Providing Notifications To Devices Patented View
17468622 Centralized Restaurant Management Patented View
17363347 Smart Stager Patented View

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