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| Art Unit: | 3791 — Surgery |
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| Group: | 3790 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| Classes: |
600 — Surgery 705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 604 — Surgery 434 — Education and demonstration 606 — Surgery 482 — Exercise devices 704 — Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 702 — Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing 435 — Chemistry: molecular biology and microbiology 422 — Chemical apparatus and process disinfecting, deodorizing, preserving, or sterilizing |
| Phone: | Available with subscription |
| Email: | Available with subscription |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Biomedical Engrg |
| Service: | 10 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 65% over 231 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Harder |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 67th
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With Examiner Melhus, you have a 65% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Melhus is a harder examiner and in the 67th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Melhus, 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 Melhus's grant rate is higher than that of Art Unit 3791 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Melhus | 2.1 |
| Art Unit 3791 | 1.9 |
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