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| Art Unit: | 3791 — Surgery |
|---|---|
| Group: | 3790 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| Classes: |
600 — Surgery 606 — Surgery 703 — Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 701 — Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location 604 — Surgery 702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing |
| Phone: | (571) 272-8637 |
| Email: | samuel.kim@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr(Biomedical Engrg) |
| Service: | 8 years |
| Grade: | GS-12 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 40% over 173 cases |
|---|---|
| Difficulty: | Very Hard |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 86th
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With Examiner Kim, you have a 40% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Kim is a very hard examiner and in the 86th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Kim, 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.
Examiner Kim's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3791 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Kim | 3.1 |
| Art Unit 3791 | 1.9 |
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