Examiner Fink Thomas Andrew

3746-FINK-THOMAS-ANDREW

Employment Information

Art Unit:3746 — Pumps
Group:3740 — Thermal & Combustion Technology, Motive & Fluid Power Systems
Classes: 417 — Pumps
415 — Rotary kinetic fluid motors or pumps
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
418 — Rotary expansible chamber devices
416 — Fluid reaction surfaces (i.e., impellers)
239 — Fluid sprinkling, spraying, and diffusing
166 — Wells
303 — Fluid-pressure and analogous brake systems
137 — Fluid handling
702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
Phone:Available with subscription
Email:Available with subscription
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:16 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

61
3-Year Grant rate: 70% over 266 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 61st

With Examiner Fink, you have a 70% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Fink is a harder examiner and in the 61st percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Fink, 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 3746

Examiner Fink's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3746 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Fink 1.3
Art Unit 3746 1.3

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