Examiner Wolford Kurt J

3762-WOLFORD-KURT-J

Employment Information

Art Unit:3762 — Ventilation
Group:3760 — Refrigeration, Vaporization, Ventilation, and Combustion
Classes: 432 — Heating
122 — Liquid heaters and vaporizers
392 — Electric resistance heating devices
219 — Electric heating
165 — Heat exchange
137 — Fluid handling
435 — Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology
374 — Thermal measuring and testing
373 — Industrial electric heating furnaces
429 — Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process
Phone:(571) 272-9945
Email:kurt.wolford@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Mechl Engrg
Service:5 years
Grade:GS-12

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

70
3-Year Grant rate: 62% over 74 cases
Difficulty: Harder
Difficulty Percentile: 70th

With Examiner Wolford, you have a 62% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Wolford is a harder examiner and in the 70th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Wolford, 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 3762

Examiner Wolford's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3762 and lower than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Wolford 1.8
Art Unit 3762 1.5

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