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  6. Examiner Dodson

Examiner Dodson Justin C

3761-DODSON-JUSTIN-C

Employment Information

Art Unit:3761 — Electric heating
Group:3760 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
Classes: 219 — Electric heating
392 — Electric resistance heating devices
373 — Industrial electric heating furnaces
426 — Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
285 — Pipe joints or couplings
315 — Electric lamp and discharge devices: systems
Phone:(571) 270-0529
Email:justin.dodson@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Supvy Supvy Dsgn Pat Examnr
Service:11 years
Grade:GS-15

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

84
3-Year Grant rate: 44% over 187 cases
Difficulty: Very Hard
Difficulty Percentile: 84th

With Examiner Dodson, you have a 44% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Dodson is a very hard examiner and in the 84th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Dodson, 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 3761

Examiner Dodson's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3761 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Dodson 3.2
Art Unit 3761 1.7

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Dodson has granted 38 of 106 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 36%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Dodson has granted 45 of 81 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 56%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Dodson, conducting an interview increases your chance of getting a patent granted by 56%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
17859126 System And Method For Welding Components Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
17859074 Electric Heating Device, In Particular For An Electric Vehicle Abandoned View
17846159 Compositions, Methods, And Systems For Resistance Spot Welding Or Brazing Aluminum To Steel Abandoned View
17857105 Mobile Heated Hair Conditioning Device Abandoned View
17859967 Pizza Heating Apparatus Abandoned View
17808108 Heating Plate Abandoned View
18530794 Micro Puree Machine With Fixed Motors Patented View
17386988 Device For Roasting Food Patented View
17038087 Water Heater Patented View
16844163 Air Preheating Of Brew Chamber Patented View
17181527 Self-Limiting Heater Patented View
17149103 Flotation Conveyance Apparatus And Laser Processing Apparatus Patented View
17242243 Tubular Thick Film Heater Protection Apparatus And Tubular Thick Film Heater Patented View
17293576 Systems And Method For Heating A Concrete Slab And For Preventing Accumulation Of Meltable Precipitation Thereon Abandoned View
17607167 Special Electrode Arrangement For The Targeted Ohmic Heating Of Different Products Or Structures That Are Electrically Conductive Or Contain Electrically Conductive Constituents Abandoned View
18162908 Electronic Vaping Device And Components Thereof Patented View
17797526 Thermal Spray Wire Abandoned View
16456062 Laser Process With Controlled Polarization Abandoned View
17330626 Ptc Heating Module And Method For Controlling The Ptc Heating Module Abandoned View
16918788 Sloped Sidewall For A Furnance Patented View
18299330 Sheet, Heating Element, And Heating Device Patented View
17728341 Smart Drive Roll Assembly Patented View
17296061 Household Oven With Led Illumination Patented View
17320415 Ptc Heating Assembly And Method For Manufacturing The Same Patented View
16911147 Method For Laser Processing A Transparent Material Abandoned View
17314676 Ptc Heating Assembly And Electric Heating Device Comprising The Same Abandoned View
17229776 Electric Heater That Can Be Clamped Abandoned View
16390100 Pipe Heating System For An Aircraft Abandoned View
17272927 Gas Shielded Triple-Wire Indirect Arc Welding Method, Device And Application Thereof Abandoned View
17161527 Froth Heaters Patented View
15720012 Systems And Methods For Automatic Range Control Patented View
17056261 Electrical Heater Device, In Particular Having A Ptc Effect Patented View
16590877 Additive Manufacturing System With Fixed Build Plate Patented View
15777293 Hand Warmer Patented View
17147023 Workpiece-Based Setting Of Weld Parameters Patented View
18232051 Weighing Device For An Espresso Coffee Machine And An Espresso Coffee Machine Incorporating Such A Device Abandoned View
17084743 Power Supply For Electric Arc Gas Heater Abandoned View
16492228 Beverage Preparation Machine And Method For The Control Of A Thermal Conditioning Device Of Such A Beverage Preparation Machine Patented View
16856724 Ptc Heating Element And Electric Heating Device With Such A Ptc Heating Element And Method For The Production Of A Ptc Heating Element Patented View
15916855 Device For Additive Production Of Three-Dimensional Objects Patented View
17565588 Portable Water Heater Assembly Abandoned View
17158885 Systems And Methods For Low-Manganese Welding Wire Patented View
16713442 Internal Heating Trace Assembly Patented View
16640046 Heating Devices And Apparatus Patented View
17201664 Heating Device Abandoned View
18166067 Susceptor For Use With An Inductively Heated Aerosol-Generating Device Or System Patented View
18123639 Rechargable, Portable Heating Device For Warming User Patented View
17066937 Heat Control System Abandoned View
16985756 Electric Heating Device Patented View
17284166 Construction Panel Abandoned View

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