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| Art Unit: | 3792 — Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application |
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| Group: | 3790 — Medical Instruments, Diagnostic Equipment, and Treatment Devices |
| Classes: |
600 — Surgery 607 — Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application 606 — Surgery 434 — Education and demonstration 700 — Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications 128 — Surgery 173 — Tool driving or impacting 705 — Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 385 — Optical waveguides |
| Phone: | (571) 270-7247 |
| Email: | john.downey@uspto.gov |
| Location: | VA 22314 |
| Title: | Pat Examnr Biomedical Engrg |
| Service: | 14 years |
| Grade: | GS-14 |
| 3-Year Grant rate: | 67% over 218 cases |
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| Difficulty: | Harder |
| Difficulty Percentile: | 65th
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With Examiner Downey, you have a 67% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Downey is a harder examiner and in the 65th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).
Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Downey, 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 Downey's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 3792 and lower than that of the USPTO.
| Average Office Actions Per Grant | |
|---|---|
| Examiner Downey | 1.6 |
| Art Unit 3792 | 1.7 |
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